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Also Known As ʿAbd al-Karīm Quṭb al-Dīn ibn Ibrāhīm al-Jīlī
Born 1365
Died c.1424
Subjects Of Study divine union • mysticism • perfection
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic
Kabir
Indian mystic and poet
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
R.C. Zaehner
British historian
Mullā Ṣadrā
Iranian philosopher
al-Fāsī
Islamic teacher and mystic [1530-1604]
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic