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Also Known As ʿAlī ibn Shihāb ad-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadānī
Born October 22, 1314 • Hamadan • Iran
Died January 18, 1385 (aged 70)
Subjects Of Study Kubrāwiyyah
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
St. Paul the Apostle
Christian Apostle
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
German religious leader
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
John Calvin
John Calvin
French theologian
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Origen
Christian theologian
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Spanish saint
Blessed John Duns Scotus
Scottish philosopher and theologian
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder
German philosopher
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar