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Born	August 18, 1868 • Keighley • England
Died	August 27, 1945 (aged 77) • Chester • England
Notable Works	“Literary History of the Arabs” • “Mathnawi of Jalalu’ddin Rumi”
Subjects Of Study	Islam

al-Ghazālī

Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic

al-Suyūṭī

Egyptian author

Sayyid Quṭb

Egyptian writer

Fenton J. A. Hort

British biblical scholar

Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī

Muslim theologian

Ibn Ḥazm

Spanish Muslim scholar

Ibn al-ʿArabī

Muslim mystic

Fethullah Gülen

Turkish Islamic scholar

Muḥammad ʿAbduh

Egyptian scholar and jurist

Tariq Ramadan

Swiss theologian and scholar

Rashīd Riḍā

Islamic scholar

al-Jāḥiẓ

Muslim theologian and scholar

Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi

poet

Charles Cutler Torrey

American biblical scholar

Johann Gerhard

German theologian

ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

Syrian author

al-Aṣmaʿī

Arab scholar

al-Ḥalabī

Muslim theologian [1460-1549]

Mālik ibn Anas

Muslim legal scholar

Albumazar

Muslim astrologer