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Zhu Xi
Philosophy & Thought
40
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Zhu Xi

朱熹
🇨🇳 China
18 October 1130 – 23 April 1200 (69 years old)

Preeminent thinker of Neo-Confucianism who unified the Four Books into the canonical civil examination curriculum and synthesized cosmology through Principle (Li) and Vital Energy (Qi).

Kaoting (Jianyang, Fujian), China
Nimbarka
Philosophy & Thought
36
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Nimbarka

निम्बार्काचार्य
🇮🇳 India
c. 1130 – c. 1200 (70 years old)

Vaishnava philosopher-saint who founded Dvaitadvaita (Dualistic Non-Dualism) Vedanta, author of the 'Vedanta Parijata Saurabha', who established the worship of Radha and Krishna as the divine source of grace.

Salemabad (Rajasthan), India
Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
Philosophy & Thought
44
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Ibn Rushd (Averroës)

أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن رشد
🇪🇸 Spain
14 April 1126 – 10 December 1198 (72 years old)

Master philosopher and jurist of Islamic Spain whose profound commentaries on Aristotle and defense of rational inquiry (Fasl al-Maqal) catalyzed the European Renaissance.

Marrakech, Morocco
Lu Jiuyuan
Philosophy & Thought
39
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Lu Jiuyuan

陸九淵
🇨🇳 China
1139 – 1193 (53 years old)

Song dynasty Neo-Confucian master 'Lu Xiangshan' who founded the School of the Heart/Mind (Xinxue), famously debating Zhu Xi at the Goose Lake Temple and declaring that 'The Mind is the Principle'.

Fuzhou (Jiangxi), China
Ibn Tufail
Philosophy & Thought
37
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Ibn Tufail

أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي
🇪🇸 Spain
c. 1105 CE – c. 1185 CE (80 years old)

Andalusian Muslim philosopher and physician who authored the philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (The Self-Taught Philosopher), which inspired John Locke's tabula rasa and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Marrakesh, Morocco
Basava
Philosophy & Thought
42
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Basava

ಬಸವಣ್ಣ
🇮🇳 India
c. 1105 – c. 1167 (62 years old)

12th-century Kannada philosopher, statesman, and social reformer who rejected caste and gender discrimination, established the Anubhava Mantapa spiritual parliament, and pioneered the democratic 'Vachana' poetic philosophy.

Kudalasangama (Karnataka), India
Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
Philosophy & Thought
31
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Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)

أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ بن باجة التجيبي
🇪🇸 spain
c. 1085 CE – c. 1138 CE (53 years old)

Pioneering Andalusian philosopher, astronomer, and musician known to the Latin West as Avempace, author of The Regime of the Solitary and critic of Ptolemaic epicycles.

Fez, Morocco
Ramanuja
Philosophy & Thought
34
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Ramanuja

रामानुज
🇮🇳 India
c. 1017 – c. 1137 (120 years old)

Supreme Hindu philosopher-theologian who founded Vishishtadvaita (Qualified Non-Dualism) Vedanta, author of the 'Sri Bhashya', who championed loving devotion (Bhakti) and opened sacred temple mantras to all castes.

Srirangam (Tamil Nadu), India
Cheng Yi
Philosophy & Thought
31
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Cheng Yi

程頤
🇨🇳 China
1033 – 1107 (74 years old)

Northern Song dynasty philosopher who, alongside his brother Cheng Hao, established the School of Principle (Lixue) that formed the philosophical foundation of the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.

Yichuan (Henan), China
Philosophy & Thought
7
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Al-Sarakhsi

محمد بن أحمد السرخسي
🇮🇷 Iran
1009 – 1096 (87 years old)

Monumental 11th-century Hanafi jurist titled 'Sun of the Imams' who dictated his thirty-volume legal masterpiece 'Al-Mabsut' from memory inside a prison well.

Uzgend, Kyrgyzstan
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
Philosophy & Thought
2
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Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

خواجه عبدالله انصاری
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
1006-05-04 – 1089-03-08 (82 years old)

Colossal 11th-century Persian Sufi mystic and Islamic scholar known as Pir-e Herat (The Sage of Herat), author of the beloved Munajat (Whispered Prayers) and Stations of the Wayfarers.

Herat, Afghanistan
Zhang Zai
Philosophy & Thought
40
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Zhang Zai

張載
🇨🇳 China
1020 – 1077 (57 years old)

Northern Song dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher and founder of the Hengqu School whose four-line moral manifesto and essay 'The Western Inscription' (Ximing) articulated the universal ethical kinship of all humanity with Heaven and Earth.

Meixian (Shaanxi), China
Zhou Dunyi
Philosophy & Thought
36
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Zhou Dunyi

周敦頤
🇨🇳 China
1017 – 1073 (56 years old)

Northern Song dynasty thinker regarded as the 'First Pioneer of Neo-Confucianism', author of the 'Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate' (Taijitu Shuo) and the celebrated ode to moral purity, 'On the Love of the Lotus'.

Jiujiang (Jiangxi), China
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Philosophy & Thought
43
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
23 August 980 – 21 June 1037 (56 years old)

'Prince of Physicians' and towering philosopher whose metaphysical encyclopedia The Book of Healing and Floating Man thought experiment shaped Islamic and European philosophy.

Hamadan, Iran
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