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Kabir Das
Philosophy & Thought
31
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Kabir Das

เค•เคฌเฅ€เคฐ เคฆเคพเคธ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 1398 โ€“ c. 1518 (120 years old)

Celebrated 15th-century mystic poet-philosopher and weaver whose biting couplets (Dohas) pierced through the hypocrisies of both Hindu caste orthodoxy and Muslim dogmatism, teaching the formless truth of the divine (Nirguna Ram).

Maghar (Uttar Pradesh), India
Ahmad al-Wansharisi
Philosophy & Thought
24
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Ahmad al-Wansharisi

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุงู„ูˆู†ุดุฑูŠุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1430 CE โ€“ 1508 (~78 years old)

Towering North African Islamic jurist born in the Ouarsenis mountains of Algeria whose monumental twelve-volume encyclopedia 'Al-Mi'yar al-Mughrib' is the supreme legal compendium of Maghrebi jurisprudence.

Fez, Morocco
Al-Suyuti
Philosophy & Thought
26
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Al-Suyuti

ุฌู„ุงู„ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ุงู„ุณูŠูˆุทูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
October 3, 1445 CE โ€“ October 18, 1505 CE (60 years old)

Prodigious Egyptian scholar, polymath, jurist, and historian whose encyclopedic bibliography of over six hundred books spanned Quranic exegesis, Hadith, Arabic philology, medicine, and history, standing as the supreme intellectual summarizer of classical Islam.

Cairo, Egypt
Zeami Motokiyo
Philosophy & Thought
28
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Zeami Motokiyo

ไธ–้˜ฟๅผฅ ๅ…ƒๆธ…
๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
c. 1363 โ€“ c. 1443 (80 years old)

Greatest playwright and aesthetic philosopher in Japanese history, who transformed Noh theatre into a supreme Zen art form and authored 'Fushikaden' (The Flowering Spirit), articulating the aesthetic concepts of Yugen (subtle grace) and Monomane.

Sado Island (Niigata), Japan
Ibn Marzuq
Philosophy & Thought
23
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Ibn Marzuq

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุงุจู† ู…ุฑุฒูˆู‚ ุงู„ุชู„ู…ุณุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1310 CE โ€“ 1379 (~69 years old)

Distinguished 14th-century Tlemcen polymath, diplomat, and Maliki jurist who served at the Marinid, Hafsid, and Castilian courts, author of 'Al-Musnad al-Sahih' recording North African history.

Cairo, Egypt
Sant Namdev
Philosophy & Thought
33
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Sant Namdev

เคธเค‚เคค เคจเคพเคฎเคฆเฅ‡เคต
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1270 โ€“ 1350 (79 years old)

14th-century tailor-saint who pioneered the Varkari tradition of Maharashtra and traveled across Northern India to Punjab, whose sixty-one devotional hymns were enshrined in the Sikh sacred scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib.

Pandharpur (Maharashtra), India
Madhvacharya
Philosophy & Thought
35
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Madhvacharya

เคฎเคงเฅเคตเคพเคšเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 1238 โ€“ c. 1317 (79 years old)

Revolutionary 13th-century philosopher-saint who founded Dvaita (Pure Dualism) Vedanta, establishing the Krishna Temple at Udupi and teaching the 'Pancha-Bheda'โ€”the five fundamental, eternal distinctions of reality.

Udupi (Karnataka), India
Sant Dnyaneshwar
Philosophy & Thought
32
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Sant Dnyaneshwar

เคธเค‚เคค เคœเฅเคžเคพเคจเฅ‡เคถเฅเคตเคฐ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1275 โ€“ 1296 (21 years old)

Brilliant 13th-century Marathi poet-philosopher and Nath yogi who translated the Bhagavad Gita into vernacular Marathi in the 9,000-verse 'Dnyaneshwari' at age fifteen, founding the egalitarian Varkari Bhakti movement.

Alandi (Pune, Maharashtra), India
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Philosophy & Thought
38
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 640

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

ู†ุตูŠุฑ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ุงู„ุทูˆุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran
18 February 1201 โ€“ 26 June 1274 (73 years old)

Persian polymath who designed the Maragheh Observatory, invented the Tusi-couple geometric model that inspired Copernicus, and authored the foundational moral treatise Akhlaq-i Nasiri.

Kadhimiya (Baghdad), Iraq
Ahmad al-Buni
Philosophy & Thought
8
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Ahmad al-Buni

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุจูˆู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1150 โ€“ 1225 (~75 years old)

Renowned 13th-century North African mathematician and esoteric philosopher whose treatises on magic squares, numerical combinatorics, and celestial talismans achieved legendary fame.

Cairo, Egypt
Zhu Xi
Philosophy & Thought
36
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 720

Zhu Xi

ๆœฑ็†น
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
18 October 1130 โ€“ 23 April 1200 (69 years old)

Preeminent thinker of Neo-Confucianism who unified the Four Books into the canonical civil examination curriculum and synthesized cosmology through Principle (Li) and Vital Energy (Qi).

Kaoting (Jianyang, Fujian), China
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