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Also Known As Jār Allāh
Born March 8, 1075 • Khwārezm • Uzbekistan? • Turkmenistan?
Died June 14, 1144 (aged 69) • Khwārezm • Turkmenistan? • Uzbekistan?
Subjects Of Study Arabic language • Muʿtazilah
Cajetan
Catholic theologian
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī
Muslim theologian
A scholar and reformer
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Egyptian scholar and jurist
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Wāṣil ibn ʿAṭāʾ
Muslim theologian
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Saʿadia ben Joseph
Jewish exegete and philosopher
St. Albertus Magnus
St. Albertus Magnus
German theologian, scientist, and philosopher
N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch
Theophylact of Ochrid
Greek archbishop
St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Palmer, E.H.: The Desert of the Exodus
E.H. Palmer
British linguist
Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon
Jewish physician and translator
Prochorus Cydones
Byzantine theologian
Ibn Qutaybah
Muslim author
Ibn Durayd
Arab philologist
Louis Cappel
French theologian