Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

King Suryavarman II

ព្រះបាទសូរ្យវរ្ម័នទី ២

Historical Cambodia

c. 1095 – c. 1150 (55 years old)

Mighty 12th-century emperor of the Khmer Empire who unified the kingdom and constructed the peerless architectural wonder Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in human history.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Suryavarman II of Khmer

ព្រះបាទសូរ្យវរ្ម័នទី២

Cambodia

c. 1094 – c. 1150 (56 years old)

Mighty king of the Khmer Empire who reunified Cambodia and constructed Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world.

Siem Reap, Cambodia

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Al-Qadi Iyad

القاضي عياض بن موسى

Morocco

1083 – 1149 (65 years old)

Supreme Maliki traditionist and jurist of Ceuta whose devotional masterpiece Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa is universally revered across the Islamic world, one of the Seven Saints of Marrakesh.

Marrakesh, Morocco

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Qadi Ayyad

القاضي عياض بن موسى اليحصبي

Morocco

1083 – 1149 (65 years old)

Supreme North African Maliki jurist, historian, and theologian whose masterwork 'Kitab ash-Shifa' is celebrated throughout the Muslim world, venerated as one of the Seven Saints of Marrakech.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Al-Qadi Ayyad

القاضي عياض بن موسى اليحصبي

spain

1083 – 1149 (65 years old)

Preeminent Maliki jurist, traditionist, and historian who served as Grand Qadi of Ceuta and Granada, authored the world-famous devotion 'Ash-Shifa', and is venerated among the Seven Saints of Marrakech.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Resistance & Human Rights

Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi

أبو بكر بن العربي

Spain

1076 – 1148 (72 years old)

Towering Maliki jurist and Grand Qadi of Seville who studied under Al-Ghazali in Baghdad, returned to North Africa, and authored monumental legal masterpieces including Ahkam al-Qur'an.

Fez, Morocco

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Princess Fannu bint Umar

فانو بنت عمر بن يحيى

Morocco

c. 1125 – 1147 (~22 years old)

Almoravid princess who donned male armor and sword to fight on the ramparts of Marrakech during the Almohad storming of the citadel in April 1147.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Ishaq ibn Ali

إسحاق بن علي بن يوسف

Morocco

c. 1130 – 1147 (~17 years old)

The final reigning Almoravid Sultan who led the desperate last stand within the stone fortress Ksar al-Hajar during the fall of Marrakech in April 1147.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Ibrahim ibn Tashfin

إبراهيم بن تاشفين

Morocco

c. 1131 – 1147 (~16 years old)

Youthful seventh Sultan of the Almoravid Empire who was proclaimed ruler in Marrakech following his father Tashfin's death in 1145.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Tashfin ibn Ali

تاشفين بن علي بن يوسف

Morocco

c. 1100 – 1145 (~45 years old)

Sixth Almoravid Sultan, brilliant victor over Castilian forces in Andalusia, who led a heroic five-year war to defend the empire against Almohad founder Abd al-Mu'min.

Marrakech (honored), Morocco

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Ali ibn Yusuf

علي بن يوسف بن تاشفين

spain

1083 – 1143 (60 years old)

Almoravid Emir of Morocco and al-Andalus for thirty-seven years, who constructed the monumental sandstone walls of Marrakech, the Great Mosque of Algiers, and the Koubba Ba'adiyin.

Marrakech, Morocco

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Peter Abelard

Petrus Abaelardus

France

c. 1079 – 1142 (63 years old)

Brilliant French scholastic philosopher and dialectician whose 'Sic et Non' pioneered scholastic methodology and who formulated the moral influence theory of the atonement.

Paris, France

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Military Leaders & Strategists

Yue Fei

岳飞 (岳鹏举)

China

1103 – 1142 (38 years old)

Revered military hero of the Southern Song Dynasty who defended China against the Jurchen Jin invasion with his disciplined Yue Family Army, bearing the tattoo 'Serve the Country with Utmost Loyalty'.

Hangzhou (West Lake), China

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Yue Fei (General Yue Pengju)

岳飛 / 岳鵬舉

China

1103 – 1142 (38 years old)

National hero and supreme commander of the Southern Song dynasty whose elite Yue Family Army repelled the Jurchen Jin dynasty with unbroken patriotism.

Hangzhou, China

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Religion

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Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ali al-Mazari

محمد بن علي المازري الإمام

Italy

1061 AD – 1141 (80 years old)

Supreme Maliki jurist, Hadith commentator, and physician who settled in Monastir, author of Al-Mu'lim bi-Fawa'id Muslim, the first comprehensive commentary on Sahih Muslim in Islamic history.

Monastir, Tunisia

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Hugh of Saint Victor

Hugo de Sancto Victore

Germany

c. 1096 – 1141 (45 years old)

Master of the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris whose 'Didascalicon' integrated all secular arts with theology and who formulated the first medieval summa of sacramental theology.

Paris, France

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