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Also Known As al-Fāsī • Giovanni Leone • al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān az-Zayyātī
Born c.1485 • Granada • Spain
Died c.1554 • Tunis • Tunisia
Subjects Of Study Islam
Engraving of Ibn Battuta in Egypt, standing on a decorated stone block with another man, overlooking ancient Egyptian columns and palm trees in the background.
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
St. John Henry Newman
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
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Clovis I
Merovingian king
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
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Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Manning, Henry Edward
Henry Edward Manning
British cardinal
William George Ward, engraving
William George Ward
British theologian
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R.C. Zaehner
British historian
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Arculf
German bishop
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ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
Orchard, William Edwin
William Edwin Orchard
British priest
Frederick William Faber, engraving by Joseph Brown
Frederick William Faber
British theologian
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Aga Khan IV
Aga Khan IV
Nizārī imam
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar