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Nimbarka
Philosophy & Thought
31
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Nimbarka

เคจเคฟเคฎเฅเคฌเคพเคฐเฅเค•เคพเคšเคพเคฐเฅเคฏ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 1130 โ€“ c. 1200 (70 years old)

Vaishnava philosopher-saint who founded Dvaitadvaita (Dualistic Non-Dualism) Vedanta, author of the 'Vedanta Parijata Saurabha', who established the worship of Radha and Krishna as the divine source of grace.

Salemabad (Rajasthan), India
Ibn Rushd (Averroรซs)
Philosophy & Thought
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 920

Ibn Rushd (Averroรซs)

ุฃุจูˆ ุงู„ูˆู„ูŠุฏ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฑุดุฏ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
14 April 1126 โ€“ 10 December 1198 (72 years old)

Master philosopher and jurist of Islamic Spain whose profound commentaries on Aristotle and defense of rational inquiry (Fasl al-Maqal) catalyzed the European Renaissance.

Marrakech, Morocco
Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi
Philosophy & Thought
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 590

Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

ุดู‡ุงุจ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุงู„ุณู‡ุฑูˆุฑุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran
1154 CE โ€“ 29 July 1191 (~37 years old)

Founder of the School of Illumination (Hikmat al-Ishraq) who synthesized ancient Persian Zoroastrian wisdom, Pythagorean thought, and Platonism into a luminous ontology of radiant Light.

Aleppo, Syria
Ibn Tufail
Philosophy & Thought
33
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ibn Tufail

ุฃุจูˆ ุจูƒุฑ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู…ู„ูƒ ุจู† ุทููŠู„ ุงู„ู‚ูŠุณูŠ ุงู„ุฃู†ุฏู„ุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
c. 1105 CE โ€“ c. 1185 CE (80 years old)

Andalusian Muslim philosopher and physician who authored the philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (The Self-Taught Philosopher), which inspired John Locke's tabula rasa and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Marrakesh, Morocco
Basava
Philosophy & Thought
39
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Basava

เฒฌเฒธเฒตเฒฃเณเฒฃ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 1105 โ€“ c. 1167 (62 years old)

12th-century Kannada philosopher, statesman, and social reformer who rejected caste and gender discrimination, established the Anubhava Mantapa spiritual parliament, and pioneered the democratic 'Vachana' poetic philosophy.

Kudalasangama (Karnataka), India
Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
Philosophy & Thought
27
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)

ุฃุจูˆ ุจูƒุฑ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุจู† ุงู„ุตุงุฆุบ ุจู† ุจุงุฌุฉ ุงู„ุชุฌูŠุจูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ spain
c. 1085 CE โ€“ c. 1138 CE (53 years old)

Pioneering Andalusian philosopher, astronomer, and musician known to the Latin West as Avempace, author of The Regime of the Solitary and critic of Ptolemaic epicycles.

Fez, Morocco
Ramanuja
Philosophy & Thought
29
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ramanuja

เคฐเคพเคฎเคพเคจเฅเคœ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 1017 โ€“ c. 1137 (120 years old)

Supreme Hindu philosopher-theologian who founded Vishishtadvaita (Qualified Non-Dualism) Vedanta, author of the 'Sri Bhashya', who championed loving devotion (Bhakti) and opened sacred temple mantras to all castes.

Srirangam (Tamil Nadu), India
Philosophy & Thought
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Al-Sarakhsi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุณุฑุฎุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran
1009 โ€“ 1096 (87 years old)

Monumental 11th-century Hanafi jurist titled 'Sun of the Imams' who dictated his thirty-volume legal masterpiece 'Al-Mabsut' from memory inside a prison well.

Uzgend, Kyrgyzstan
Zhang Zai
Philosophy & Thought
36
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Zhang Zai

ๅผต่ผ‰
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1020 โ€“ 1077 (57 years old)

Northern Song dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher and founder of the Hengqu School whose four-line moral manifesto and essay 'The Western Inscription' (Ximing) articulated the universal ethical kinship of all humanity with Heaven and Earth.

Meixian (Shaanxi), China
Zhou Dunyi
Philosophy & Thought
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Zhou Dunyi

ๅ‘จๆ•ฆ้ ค
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
1017 โ€“ 1073 (56 years old)

Northern Song dynasty thinker regarded as the 'First Pioneer of Neo-Confucianism', author of the 'Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate' (Taijitu Shuo) and the celebrated ode to moral purity, 'On the Love of the Lotus'.

Jiujiang (Jiangxi), China
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Philosophy & Thought
39
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 950

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

ุฃุจูˆ ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุญุณูŠู† ุจู† ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุจู† ุณูŠู†ุง
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Uzbekistan
23 August 980 โ€“ 21 June 1037 (56 years old)

'Prince of Physicians' and towering philosopher whose metaphysical encyclopedia The Book of Healing and Floating Man thought experiment shaped Islamic and European philosophy.

Hamadan, Iran
Al-Qabisi
Philosophy & Thought
13
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Al-Qabisi

ุฃุจูˆ ุงู„ุญุณู† ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ู‚ุงุจุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
0935 โ€“ 1012 (76 years old)

Eminent 10th-century Kairouanese jurist and educator who authored Al-Risalah al-Mufassilah, the earliest systematic Islamic educational treatise on pedagogical ethics and equal schooling for girls.

Kairouan, Tunisia
Yahya ibn Umar al-Kinani
Philosophy & Thought
28
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Yahya ibn Umar al-Kinani

ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุจู† ุนู…ุฑ ุงู„ูƒู†ุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
c. 828 CE โ€“ 902 CE (74 years old)

Pioneering Islamic legal theorist of Kairouan who authored 'Ahkam al-Suq' (Rules of the Market), the earliest surviving comprehensive legal treatise on economic regulation, consumer protection, and commercial ethics.

Sousse, Tunisia
Kumarila Bhatta
Philosophy & Thought
32
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Kumarila Bhatta

เค•เฅเคฎเคพเคฐเคฟเคฒ เคญเคŸเฅเคŸ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 700 CE โ€“ c. 760 CE (60 years old)

Titan of Purva Mimamsa philosophy whose brilliant treatises 'Shlokavarttika' and 'Tantravarttika' defended Vedic realism and commonsense realism against Buddhist nominalism, establishing the intrinsic validity of knowledge (Svatah-pramanya).

Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), India
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