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Also Known As Mujaddid-i Alf-i Thānī
Born 1564? • India
Died 1624 • India
Subjects Of Study Islam • mysticism
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as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian theologian
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Kabir
Indian mystic and poet
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Shāh Walī Allāh
Indian Muslim theologian
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Engraving by Lucas Vorsterman after Peter Paul Rubens showing St. Ignatius of Loyola with a halo, hands clasped in prayer before a crucifix and open book.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
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Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
French abbot
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Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
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Joachim Of Fiore
Italian theologian
The second founder of the Franciscans, St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
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Meister Eckhart
German theologian and mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
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Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic