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Sidi Abdallah al-Ghazwani

عبد الله الغزواني (مول القصور)

Morocco

c. 1460 – 1529 (~69 years old)

One of the Seven Saints of Marrakech, known as 'Moul El Ksour' (Master of the Palaces), who succeeded Sidi Abd al-Aziz al-Tebba' as leader of the Jazuliyya order and predicted the rise of the Saadian dynasty.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Balthasar Hubmaier

Balthasar Hubmaier

Germany

c. 1480 – 1528 (48 years old)

Pivotal Anabaptist theologian and former Catholic university rector who established believer's baptism in Waldshut and Nikolsburg and defended religious freedom in 'Heretics and Those Who Burn Them'.

Vienna, Austria

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Muhammad ibn Isa (Cheikh El Kamel)

الشيخ الكامل محمد بن عيسى

Morocco

1467 – 1526 (59 years old)

Venerated Moroccan Sufi master known as 'Al-Cheikh Al-Kamel' (The Perfect Master) who founded the Aissawa Sufi order, famed for its ecstatic music, spiritual healing, and vast brotherhood.

Meknes, Morocco

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Ravidas

रविदास

India

c. 1450 – c. 1520 (70 years old)

Eminent Bhakti saint, leather-worker (Chamar), and social emancipator who envisioned 'Begumpura' (a sorrowless utopian city of equality) and contributed 41 hymns to the Guru Granth Sahib.

Varanasi, India

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Isaac ben Judah Abravanel

יצחק אברבנאל

Portugal

1437 – 1508 (71 years old)

Statesman, royal treasurer to Ferdinand and Isabella, and prolific biblical commentator who led Spanish Jews in the Expulsion of 1492 and authored messianic treatises.

Padua, Italy

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Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti

جلال الدين السيوطي

Egypt

1445 – 1505 (60 years old)

Extraordinary Egyptian polymath and mujaddid who authored over 500 treatises spanning Quranic sciences, Hadith, grammar, and law, including 'Tafsir al-Jalalayn' and 'Al-Itqan'.

Cairo, Egypt

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Abd al-Karim al-Maghili

عبد الكريم المغيلي

Algeria

c. 1440 – 1505 (~65 years old)

Influential 15th-century jurist from Tlemcen whose legal rulings and advisory treatises shaped governance in the Songhai Empire and the Hausa states of West Africa.

Adrar, Algeria

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Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola

Italy

1452 – 1498 (45 years old)

Dominican friar and fiery reformer who led the Florentine Republic, organized the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', and fearlessly denounced the corruption of Borgia Pope Alexander VI.

Florence, Italy

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Ahmad Zarruq

أحمد زروق الفاسي

Morocco

1442 – 1493 (50 years old)

Foundational 15th-century Moroccan jurist and reformer of Fez whose classic treatise Qawa'id al-Tasawwuf reconciled Islamic jurisprudence and mystical spirituality across North Africa.

Misrata, Libya

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Ahmad al-Zarruq

أحمد زروق الفاسي

Morocco

1442 – 1493 (50 years old)

Moroccan-born Islamic scholar and Shadhili Sufi reformer who reconciled exoteric jurisprudence with esoteric mysticism in his classic 'Qawa'id al-Tasawwuf', buried in Misrata, Libya.

Misrata, Libya

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Sidi Abderrahmane et-Thaâlibi

عبد الرحمن الثعالبي

Algeria

1384 – 1479 (95 years old)

Eminent Algerian Quranic commentator, Maliki jurist, and Sufi saint who authored the celebrated exegesis 'Al-Jawahir al-Hisan' and is venerated as the patron saint and spiritual protector of Algiers.

Algiers (Casbah), Algeria

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Sidi Yahia El Aidli

سيدي يحيى العيدلي

Algeria

1375 – 1477 (102 years old)

15th-century Sufi sage and reformer who founded the renowned Zawiya of Tamokra in the Soummam valley, educating generations of scholars and resistance leaders.

Tamokra (Akbou, Bejaïa), Algeria

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Thomas Hemerken

Thomas a Kempis

Germany

c. 1380 – 1471 (91 years old)

Dutch-German monk of the Devotio Moderna movement and author of 'The Imitation of Christ', the most widely translated Christian devotional book in history after the Bible.

Zwolle, Netherlands

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Imam al-Jazuli

محمد بن سليمان الجزولي

Morocco

c. 1404 – 1465 (61 years old)

Sanhaja Berber Sufi master who authored 'Dala'il al-Khayrat', the most celebrated prayer book in Islamic history, and mobilized national resistance against Portuguese coastal incursions in Morocco.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli

محمد بن سليمان الجزولي

Morocco

1404 – 1465 (61 years old)

Revered 15th-century Amazigh Sufi reformer from the Sous, author of Dala'il al-Khayrat, whose spiritual brotherhood catalyzed the rise of the Saadian dynasty against Portuguese expansion.

Marrakesh, Morocco

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Muhammad al-Jazuli

محمد بن سليمان الجزولي

Morocco

c. 1404 – 1465 (61 years old)

Iconic Moroccan Sufi master and spiritual leader whose prayer manual 'Dala'il al-Khayrat' became the most widely recited devotional book after the Qur'an across the Islamic world.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zawawi

أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن فايد الزواوي

Algeria

1394 – 1453 (59 years old)

15th-century Berber Maliki legal authority and grand exegete of Béjaïa and the Djurdjura whose legal commentaries Talkhis al-Bukhari and Tashil al-Sabil shaped North African jurisprudence.

Béjaïa, Algeria

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Ahmad ibn Ali Ibn Hajar

ابن حجر العسقلاني

Egypt

1372 – 1449 (76 years old)

Supreme Hadith scholar of late medieval Islam, Chief Shafi'i Judge of Egypt, and author of 'Fath al-Bari', the peerless commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.

Cairo, Egypt

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