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Born 1579 • Germany
Died September 7, 1654 (aged 75) • Kraków • Poland
Bronze statue of Maimonides, depicted with a beard and wearing a turban, shown from the chest up against a clear blue background.
Moses Maimonides
Jewish philosopher, scholar, and physician
Rashi, from a French postage stamp.
Rashi
French religious scholar
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Jacob Israel Emden
Danish rabbi
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Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi
Jewish scholar
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Adolf Jellinek
European Jewish rabbi and scholar
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Asher ben Jehiel
Spanish rabbi
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Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
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Amram bar Sheshna
Jewish scholar
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Ashi
Babylonian-Jewish scholar
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Louis Ginzberg
Lithuanian-American scholar
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Isaiah ben Judah Loeb Berlin
Hungarian scholar
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Aḥa Of Shabḥa
Jewish scholar
Ramanuja statue
Ramanuja
Hindu theologian and philosopher
Chu Hsi, ink on paper, by an unknown artist; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Zhu Xi
Chinese philosopher
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Muslim scholar
A scholar and reformer
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Egyptian scholar and jurist
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Dong Zhongshu
Chinese scholar
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Zhou Dunyi
Chinese philosopher