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Patanjali
Philosophy & Thought
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Patanjali

เคชเคคเคžเฅเคœเคฒเคฟ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 200 BCE โ€“ c. 150 BCE (~50 years old)

Ancient Indian sage and philosopher who compiled the foundational 'Yoga Sutras', codifying classical Raja Yoga into the Eight Limbs (Ashtanga) to achieve mastery of the mind and spiritual liberation.

Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu), India
Huineng
Philosophy & Thought
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Huineng

ๆƒ ่ƒฝ
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
638-02-27 โ€“ 713-08-28 (~75 years old)

Illiterate firewood seller who became the historic Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, founder of the Southern School of Sudden Enlightenment, whose teachings are preserved in the sacred 'Platform Sutra'.

Shaoguan (Guangdong), China
Dong Zhongshu
Philosophy & Thought
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Dong Zhongshu

่‘ฃไปฒ่ˆ’
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China
c. 179 BCE โ€“ c. 104 BCE (~75 years old)

Han dynasty philosopher and imperial chancellor who persuaded Emperor Wu of Han to make Confucianism the sole official state ideology of the Chinese empire, formulating the doctrine of 'Mutual Resonance between Heaven and Man'.

Xi'an (Shaanxi), China
Leo Africanus
Sciences & Discovery
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Leo Africanus

ุงู„ุญุณู† ุจู† ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ูˆุฒุงู† ุงู„ุฒูŠุงุชูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
c. 1494 โ€“ c. 1554 (~60 years old)

North African diplomat, traveler, and geographer born in Granada and raised in Fez, whose masterwork 'Descrittione dell'Africa' (1526) served as Europe's primary geographical authority on the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa for centuries.

Tunis, Tunisia
Fatima al-Fihriya
Sciences & Discovery
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Fatima al-Fihriya

ูุงุทู…ุฉ ุงู„ูู‡ุฑูŠุฉ (ุฃู… ุงู„ุจู†ูŠู†)
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
c. 800 โ€“ c. 880 (~80 years old)

Visionary Arab Muslim woman known as 'Umm al-Banin' who migrated from Kairouan to Fez and used her entire inherited fortune to found the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 859 CE, recognized by UNESCO as the oldest continuously operating university in the world.

Fez, Morocco
Philo of Alexandria
Philosophy & Thought
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Philo of Alexandria

ููŠู„ูˆ ุงู„ุฅุณูƒู†ุฏุฑูŠ (ููŠู„ูˆู†)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
c. 20 BCE โ€“ 50-01-01 (~20 years old)

Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of Alexandria who pioneered the allegorical interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures, synthesized the Torah with Platonic and Stoic philosophy, and developed the theology of the divine 'Logos'.

Alexandria, Egypt
Martianus Capella
Philosophy & Thought
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Martianus Capella

ู…ุงุฑุชูŠุงู†ูˆุณ ูƒุงุจูŠู„ุง
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 360 โ€“ c. 428 (~68 years old)

Late antique Latin writer and lawyer from Numidia whose allegorical encyclopedia 'The Marriage of Philology and Mercury' defined the medieval curriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts (Trivium and Quadrivium).

Carthage, Tunisia
Lactantius
Philosophy & Thought
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Lactantius

ู„ุงูƒุทุงู†ุณูŠูˆุณ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 250 โ€“ c. 325 (~75 years old)

North African Berber Christian author known as the 'Christian Cicero', who served as Latin rhetorician to Emperor Diocletian, converted to Christianity, and tutored the eldest son of Constantine the Great.

Trier, Germany
Minucius Felix
Philosophy & Thought
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Minucius Felix

ู…ุงุฑูƒูˆุณ ู…ูŠู†ูˆุณูŠูˆุณ ููŠู„ูŠูƒุณ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 160 โ€“ c. 250 (~90 years old)

North African Roman lawyer from Cirta (Constantine) who authored 'Octavius', one of the earliest and most elegant Christian philosophical dialogues in Latin literature.

Rome, Italy
Apuleius of Madauros
Philosophy & Thought
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Apuleius of Madauros

ุฃุจูˆู„ูŠูˆุณ ุงู„ู…ุงุฏูˆุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 124 โ€“ c. 170 (~46 years old)

Numidian Berber Latin author and Platonist philosopher from M'Daourouch, Algeria, who wrote 'The Golden Ass' (Metamorphoses), the only complete Latin novel to survive from antiquity, containing the myth of Cupid and Psyche.

Tunis, Tunisia
Ramesses II
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Ramesses II

ุฑู…ุณูŠุณ ุงู„ุซุงู†ูŠ (ุฑู…ุณูŠุณ ุงู„ุฃูƒุจุฑ)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
c. 1303 BCE โ€“ c. 1213 BCE (~90 years old)

Third Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty, celebrated as 'Ramesses the Great', who ruled for sixty-six years, fought the Hittites at Kadesh, signed the world's first recorded peace treaty, and constructed Abu Simbel.

Cairo, Egypt
Thutmose III
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Thutmose III

ุชุญุชู…ุณ ุงู„ุซุงู„ุซ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
c. 1481 BCE โ€“ c. 1425 BCE (~56 years old)

Sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, acclaimed by modern historians as the 'Napoleon of Egypt', who conducted seventeen victorious military campaigns and built the largest empire in Egyptian history.

Luxor, Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Queen Hatshepsut

ุญุงุชุดุจุณูˆุช
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
c. 1507 BCE โ€“ c. 1458 BCE (~49 years old)

Fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, celebrated as one of the most successful female rulers in world history, builder of the magnificent mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, and commissioner of the legendary naval expedition to Punt.

Luxor, Egypt
Queen Dido
Monarchs, Kings & Royalty
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Queen Dido

ุนู„ูŠุณุฉ (ุฏูŠุฏูˆ)
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
c. 850 BCE โ€“ c. 800 BCE (~50 years old)

Legendary Phoenician princess of Tyre who fled her tyrannical brother Pygmalion, sailed across the Mediterranean, and founded the immortal maritime empire of Carthage on the coast of Tunisia in 814 BCE.

Tunis, Tunisia
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