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Also Known As Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq aṣ-Ṣabāḥ al-Kindī
Died c.870
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Averroës
Muslim philosopher
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Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
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al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
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Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
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al-Fārābī
Muslim philosopher
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Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
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as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
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Hājjī Hādī Sabzevārī
Islamic philosopher
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Dawānī
Persian philosopher
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Mīr Dāmād
Islamic philosopher
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Avempace
Spanish Muslim philosopher
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
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Mullā Ṣadrā
Iranian philosopher
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Ibn Miskawayh
Islamic scholar
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Ibn Ṭufayl
Moorish philosopher and physician
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Muhammad
prophet of Islam
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ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
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Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
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Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
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al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph

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