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| Anaxagoras |
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Anaxagoras (Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagoras, "lord of the assembly"; c. 500 BC – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Born in Clazomenae in Asia Minor, Anaxagoras was the first philosopher to bring philosophy from Ionia to Athens. He...
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| Crates of Thebes |
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Crates (Greek: Κράτης; c. 365-c. 285 BC) of Thebes, was a Cynic philosopher. Crates gave away his money to live a life of poverty on the streets of Athens. He married Hipparchia of Maroneia who lived in the same manner that he did. Respected by the...
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Ramban |
Nahmanides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Nachman Girondi, Bonastruc ça Porta and by his acronym Ramban, (Gerona, 1194 – Land of Israel, 1270), was a Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator.
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| Paul Gottfried |
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Paul Edward Gottfried (*1941) is the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and a Guggenheim recipient. He is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
He is the author of numerous...
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| Cyril Lucaris |
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Kyrillos Loukaris or Cyril Lucaris (1572–June 1638; Greek Κύριλλος Λούκαρις or Λούκαρης) was a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Candia, Crete (then under the Republic of Venice). He later became the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as...
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| Malik ibn Anas |
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Mālik ibn Anas ibn Malik ibn 'Āmr al-Asbahi (Arabic مالك بن أنس) (c. 711 - 795) (93 AH - 179 AH ) is known as "Imam Malik," the "Sheikh of Islam," the "Proof of the Community," and "Imam of the Abode of Emigration." He was one of the most highly...
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| Othmar Spann |
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Othmar Spann (October 1, 1878, Altmannsdorf, Vienna - July 8, 1950, Neustift bei Schlaining) was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic...
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| Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i |
Abū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shafiʿī (767 CE - 820 CE) was a Muslim jurist. He was active in juridical matters and his teaching eventually led to the Shafi'i school of fiqh (or Madh'hab) named after him. Hence he is often called Imam al-Shafi...
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Said Nursi |
Bediüzzaman Said Nursî (1878 – March 23, 1960) is an outstanding Islamic scholar who wrote Risale-i Nur Collection, a body of Qur'anic commentary exceeding six thousand pages. He is commonly known as Bediüzzaman, which means "the wonder of the age"....
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| William E. Connolly |
William E. Connolly is a political theorist and the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his work on democracy, pluralism, and political theory. Connolly’s writings have pushed the edge of...
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| Ahmed Yesevi |
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Khoja Ahmat Yssawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Яссауи, Qoja Axmet Yassawï; Uzbek: Xoja Ahmad Yassivi, also spelled Ahmad Yasawi, Ahmet Yasevi, Ahmed Yesevi or Ata Yesevi) (born in Sayram in 1093, and died in 1166 in Hazrat-e Turkestan, both cities now in...
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| Lex Hixon |
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Lex Hixon (Islam:Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi) (1941-1995) born Alexander Paul Hixon was an accomplished poet, philosopher and spiritual practitioner and teacher. He extensively explored the truth of the great religious traditions. He documented these...
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| Jay Newman |
Jay Newman (February 28, 1948 – June 17, 2007) was a philosopher and Professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.
Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lou Newman and his wife, Kitty. He received his B.A. from Brooklyn...
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| Muhammad ash-Shawkani |
Muhammad ash-Shawkani (1759-1834 CE ) was a Yemeni scholar of Islam, jurisprudent, and reformer.
His full name was Muhammad Ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullaah al-Shawkani . The surname "ash-Shawkani" is derived from Hijrah ash-Shawkan, which is a...
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| Stanley Rosen |
Stanley Rosen (born July 29, 1929) is an American philosopher. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he is currently Professor Emeritus at Boston University. His wide range of research includes metaphysics, political philosophy, and history of western philosophy...
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| Patriarch Metrophanes of Alexandria |
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Mêtrophanês Kritopoulos, sometimes Critopoulos, Critopoulus, Kritopulus (Greek: Μητροφάνης Κριτόπουλος, ca. 1589–30 May 1639) was a Greek monk and theologian who served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1636 and 1639.
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| John A. Leslie |
John Andrew Leslie (born August 2, 1940) is a Canadian philosopher. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, earning his B.A. in English Literature in 1962 and his M.Litt. in Classics in 1968. He is currently Professor emeritus at the University...
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| Enrique Dussel |
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Enrique Dussel (born December 24, 1934 in Mendoza, Argentina) is a Latin American writer and philosopher.
Born in La Paz, Mendoza Argentina, but since he was attacked with a bomb in his house by a paramilitary group in 1973, he was forced to exile...
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Justin Fritz Leiber |
Justin Fritz Leiber (born July 8, 1938) is an American philosopher and science fiction writer. He is the son of science fiction author Fritz Leiber. Previously a professor at the University of Houston, Leiber is currently a Professor of Philosophy...
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| Asclepiodotus of Alexandria |
Asclepiodotus (Greek: Άσκληπιόδοτος) of Alexandria was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in the second half of the 5th century. He was a native of Alexandria who studied under Proclus in Athens. He eventually moved to Aphrodisias where he...
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| Thomas Flanginis |
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Thomas Flanginis (b.1578–d.1648) was a wealthy Greek lawyer and merchant in Venice, who founded the Flanginion Frontisterion Greek college where many teachers were trained. His family were originally from the island of Corfu.
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| P. K. Pokker |
P. K. Pokker (Malayalam: പി. കെ. പോക്കര്), 1954 – June 1 is an Indian(Kerala) Marxist theoretician whose contribution is mainly in the area of postmodern developments in Kerala and deconstructive turn in philosophy. P. K. P. was born in Orkkatteri...
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| Jean-Michel Berthelot |
Jean-Michel Berthelot (1945 – 2006) was a French sociologist, philosopher, epistemologist and social theorist, specialist in philosophy of social sciences,history of sociology, sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science and...
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| Maulana Hamid Raza Khan |
Hamid Raza Khan Qaadiri: was an Islamic scholar (Hujjat-ul-Islam) and mystic of the Barelvi movement. Qaaderi was born in 1875 (Rabi' al-awwal 1292 Hijri), in the city of Bareilly, India. The name given at the time of his aqeeqah was Muhammad, as it...
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| Gary Chartier |
Gary William Chartier (born 1966) is an American legal scholar, philosopher, theologian, and “left-wing market anarchist.” He currently serves as Associate Professor of Law and Business Ethics and associate dean of the School of Business at La...
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| Vale |
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Vale, name commonly known as Gabriel José Vale Valera, who is a Venezuelan philosopher, playwright, novelist, poet, literary critic, painter, sculptor and architect; self-taught. He was born in Caracas (February 23, 1979), city where takes his...
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| Shabir Ally |
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Shabir Ally is the president of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre International in Toronto. He is a well-known author, activist, preacher and speaker on Islam and Muslims. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Laurentian University in...
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| Modjtaba Sadria |
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Modjtaba Sadria is an Iranian-born philosopher and socio-cultural theorist.
Sadria was educated in Germany for International Law, France for Philosophy, History, and Sociology, and Canada for International relations, and Cultural Studies. He has...
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