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Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

ابن قيم الجوزية

Syria

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

India

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

Syria

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

Great Britain

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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Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah (Shaykh al-Islam)

تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية

Turkey

22 January 1263 CE (661 AH) – 26 September 1328 CE (728 AH) (65 years old)

Formidable Hanbali jurist and theologian who led intellectual resistance against Mongol hegemony and theological syncretism. Authored Majmu al-Fatawa, advocating a return to the direct methodology of early Islam (Salaf).

Damascus, Syria

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Al-Hasan ibn Yusuf al-Hilli

العلامة الحلي

Iraq

1248 – 1325 (77 years old)

Legendary Iraqi philosopher, mathematician, and jurist who was the first to receive the honorific title 'Allamah' (Most Erudite) and converted Ilkhanid Mongol ruler Oljeitu to Islam.

Najaf, Iraq

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Sri Madhvacharya (Acharya of Dvaita / Ananda Tirtha)

मध्वाचार्य (Madhvācārya)

India

c. 1238 CE – c. 1317 CE (79 years old)

Thirteenth-century philosopher-reformer who founded the Dvaita (Dualism) school of Vedanta. Formulated the five eternal distinctions (Pancha Bheda), asserting the absolute independent reality of God and the eternal distinction of souls.

Udupi, India

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Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah

ابن عطاء الله السكندري

Egypt

c. 1259 – 1309 (50 years old)

Third master of the Shadhiliyya and Maliki jurist at al-Azhar whose profound aphorisms 'Al-Hikam al-Ata'iyya' are revered as the supreme crown of Islamic wisdom literature.

Cairo, Egypt

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Angela of Foligno

Angela da Foligno

Italy

1248 – 1309 (61 years old)

Franciscan tertiary and mystical teacher whose 'Book of Visions and Instructions' (Memorial) mapped thirty steps of spiritual transformation into the suffering Christ.

Foligno, Italy

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John Duns Scotus

Ioannes Duns Scotus

Scotland

c. 1266 – 1308 (42 years old)

Scottish Franciscan master philosopher whose brilliant concepts of haecceity ('thisness') and the univocity of being, along with his defense of the Immaculate Conception, shaped Catholic dogma.

Cologne, Germany

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Ibn Daqiq al-Id

ابن دقيق العيد

Saudi Arabia

1228 – 1302 (74 years old)

Towering 13th-century Grand Qadi of Egypt and mujtahid who was declared the 'Renewer of the Century' (Mujaddid), renowned for his incorruptible judicial independence before Mamluk sultans.

Cairo, Egypt

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Dnyaneshwar

ज्ञानेश्वर

India

1275 – 1296 (21 years old)

Maharashtrian Bhakti saint, poet, and Nath yogi who translated the Bhagavad Gita into vernacular Marathi in 'Dnyaneshwari' at age fifteen, founding the Varkari tradition.

Alandi, India

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Nichiren

日蓮

Japan

1222 – 1282 (60 years old)

Fiery Kamakura reformer and founder of Nichiren Buddhism who declared the Lotus Sutra the supreme teaching and established the chanting of 'Namu Myoho Renge Kyo' for personal and national peace.

Mount Minobu, Japan

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Mechthild of Magdeburg

Mechthild von Magdeburg

Germany

c. 1207 – c. 1282 (75 years old)

Beguine mystic and visionary poet whose 'The Flowing Light of the Godhead' pioneered vernacular German mystical literature, expressing ecstatic Bridal Mysticism.

Eisleben, Germany

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Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus

Germany

c. 1200 – 1280 (80 years old)

Dominican polymath, Bishop of Regensburg, and Doctor of the Church who introduced Aristotelian science to medieval Europe and mentored Thomas Aquinas.

Cologne, Germany

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Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi

يحيى بن شرف النووي

Syria

1233 – 1277 (44 years old)

Renowned Shafi'i jurist, traditionist, and ascetic author of 'The Forty Hadith', 'Riyad al-Salihin', and 'Al-Majmu', who fearlessly challenged Sultan Baibars for the rights of the poor.

Nawa, Syria

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Ahmad ibn Ali al-Badawi

أحمد البدوي

Morocco

c. 1199 – 1276 (77 years old)

Most venerated Sufi saint of Egypt and founder of the Ahmadiyya/Badawiyya order, celebrated for his rooftop vigils in Tanta, warrior courage against Crusaders, and immense charity.

Tanta, Egypt

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Saint Bonaventure

Bonaventura da Bagnoregio

Italy

c. 1221 – 1274 (53 years old)

Revered as the 'Seraphic Doctor', Franciscan Minister General and scholastic philosopher who synthesized Augustinian mysticism with Christian philosophy in 'The Mind's Journey into God'.

Lyon, France

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