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Also Known As Giovanni Leone • al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Wazzān az-Zayyātī • al-Fāsī
Born c.1485 • Granada • Spain
Died c.1554 • Tunis • Tunisia
Subjects Of Study Islam
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
Clovis I
Merovingian king
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
German nun
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Manning, Henry Edward
Henry Edward Manning
British cardinal
William George Ward, engraving
William George Ward
British theologian
R.C. Zaehner
British historian
Arculf
German bishop
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
Orchard, William Edwin
William Edwin Orchard
British priest
Frederick William Faber, engraving by Joseph Brown
Frederick William Faber
British theologian
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
al-Maʾmūn
ʿAbbāsid caliph
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
al-Ḥallāj
Islamic mystic