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Also Known As Ṣadr ad-Dīn ash-Shīrāzī
Born c.1571 • Shīrāz • Iran
Died 1640 • Basra • Iraq
Subjects Of Study Ishrāqīyah • mysticism • philosophy of nature
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Hājjī Hādī Sabzevārī
Islamic philosopher
Dawānī
Persian philosopher
Mīr Dāmād
Islamic philosopher
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
German philosopher
St. Bonaventure
Saint Bonaventure
Italian theologian
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
Hindu religious leader
Ramon Llull.
Ramon Llull
Catalan mystic
Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras
Greek philosopher
Simone Weil.
Simone Weil
French philosopher

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