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Sayyid Nur al-Din Nematollah Vali

شاه نعمت‌الله ولی

Mamluk Sultanate

c. 1330 – c. 1431 (101 years old)

Revered Persian Sufi master, poet, and founder of the Nimatullahi order who spent decades traveling through Mecca, Samarkand, and Herat before creating a vibrant center in Mahan.

Mahan, Iran

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Je Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa

རྗེ་ཙོང་ཁ་པ། (Rje Tsong-kha-pa)

China

21 October 1357 CE – 13 November 1419 CE (62 years old)

Tibetan religious reformer, philosopher, and founder of the Gelug school—the tradition of the Dalai Lamas. Authored the Lamrim Chenmo (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment), unifying monastic discipline and Madhyamaka logic.

Ganden Monastery, China

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Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Kingdom of England

1343 – c. 1416 (72 years old)

English anchoress and mystic whose 'Revelations of Divine Love' is the earliest surviving English book authored by a woman, immortal for her vision that 'all shall be well'.

Norwich, United Kingdom

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Jan Hus

Jan Hus

Kingdom of Bohemia

c. 1372 – 1415 (43 years old)

Bohemian religious reformer, rector of Prague University, and martyr whose vernacular Czech preaching against indulgences ignited the Hussite movement and inspired Martin Luther.

Constance, Germany

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Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas

חסדאי קרשקש

🌐 Crown of Aragon

c. 1340 – c. 1410 (70 years old)

Catalan philosopher and leader of Spanish Jewry whose treatise 'Light of the Lord' (Or Adonai) critiqued Aristotelian physics and championed divine love and free will.

Zaragoza, Spain

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Sergius of Radonezh

Сергий Радонежский

Grand Duchy of Vladimir

1314 – 1392 (78 years old)

Spiritual father of medieval Russia who founded the Trinity Lavra of Saint Sergius and blessed Prince Dmitry Donskoy before the historic Battle of Kulikovo.

Sergiyev Posad, Russia

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Muhammad Bahauddin Shah Naqshband

بهاء الدين نقشبند

🌐 Chagatai Khanate

1318 – 1389 (71 years old)

Founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi order whose golden principle 'Dil ba yar, dast ba kar' (Heart with God, hand in labor) established silent dhikr and active societal engagement across Eurasia.

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Shatibi

إبراهيم بن موسى الشاطبي

🌐 Emirate of Granada

c. 1320 – 1388 (68 years old)

Andalusian legal philosopher whose groundbreaking work 'Al-Muwafaqat' founded the science of Maqasid al-Shariah (higher objectives of Islamic law), emphasizing universal human welfare.

Granada, Spain

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John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe

Kingdom of England

c. 1328 – 1384 (56 years old)

Oxford scholastic philosopher, theologian, and biblical translator hailed as the 'Morning Star of the Reformation' who produced the first complete English translation of the Bible.

Lutterworth, United Kingdom

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Caterina Benincasa

Caterina da Siena

🌐 Republic of Siena

1347 – 1380 (33 years old)

Dominican tertiary, mystic, and Doctor of the Church who boldly persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome from Avignon and authored 'The Dialogue of Divine Providence'.

Rome, Italy

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Ismail ibn Umar Ibn Kathir

ابن كثير

🌐 Mamluk Sultanate

c. 1301 – 1373 (72 years old)

Illustrious Syrian scholar, historian, and student of Ibn Taymiyyah whose 'Tafsir Ibn Kathir' and historical chronicle 'Al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah' are among the most studied in Islam.

Damascus, Syria

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Heinrich Seuse

Heinrich Seuse

🌐 Holy Roman Empire

1295 – 1366 (70 years old)

Rhineland Dominican mystic and poet of Eternal Wisdom whose 'Little Book of Eternal Wisdom' was the most widely read devotional manual in Europe before the Imitation of Christ.

Ulm, Germany

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Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler

Holy Roman Empire

c. 1300 – 1361 (61 years old)

Rhineland mystic, Dominican friar, and supreme preacher of the 'Friends of God' whose vernacular sermons inspired Martin Luther and guided souls during the Black Death.

Strasbourg, France

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Gregory Palamas

Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς

Byzantine Empire

0296 – 1359 (1063 years old)

Archbishop of Thessaloniki and foremost theologian of Hesychasm who articulated the distinction between God's unknowable divine essence and uncreated divine energies.

Thessaloniki, Greece

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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

ابن قيم الجوزية

🌐 Mamluk Sultanate

1292 – 1350 (58 years old)

Prominent Hanbali theologian, jurist, and spiritual psychologist whose masterworks 'Madarij al-Salikin' and 'Zad al-Ma'ad' beautifully united legal rigor with profound heart-centered devotion.

Damascus, Syria

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Namdev

नामदेव

Yadava Dynasty

1270 – 1350 (79 years old)

Pioneering Varkari Bhakti poet who journeyed across India with Dnyaneshwar, composed verses included in the Sikh Guru Granth Sahib, and preached universal brotherhood.

Pandharpur, India

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Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Dhahabi

شمس الدين الذهبي

🌐 Mamluk Sultanate

1274 – 1348 (73 years old)

Syrian master Hadith critic and supreme biographer whose 25-volume 'Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' and 'Tarikh al-Islam' comprise the most comprehensive biographical archive of Islamic civilization.

Damascus, Syria

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William of Ockham

Guillelmus de Ockham

Kingdom of England

c. 1287 – 1347 (60 years old)

English Franciscan philosopher and pioneer of nominalism whose methodological principle ('Ockham's Razor') and political treatises on the separation of church and state founded modern thought.

Munich, Germany

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