List of Muslim philosophers
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A Muslim philosopher is a person that professes Islam and engaged in the philosophical aspect of Islamic studies, for example theology or eschatology and other fields of Islamic philosophy.
[edit] List of Islamic philosophers
| Name | Latinization | Portrait | Born-Died | Madh'hab | School of Philosophy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Kindi (Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī) | Alkindus |  |
801-873 | Peripatetic | |
| Al Farabi (ابو نصر محمد الفارابي,Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābi) | Alpharabius | 870-950 | Peripatetic | ||
| Ibn Masarrah (أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله بن مسرة بن نجيح الجبلي, Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah b. Masarra b. Najih al-Jabali) | 883-931 | ||||
| Al Amiri (أبو الحسن محمد ابن يوسف العامري, Abu al-Hassan Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Amiri) | ?-992 | ||||
| Ibn Miskawayh (Abu 'Ali Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ya'qub Ibn Miskawayh) | 932-1030 | Neo-Platonism | |||
| Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham) | Alhazen |  |
965-1040 | Mu'tazili, Ash'ari, Shia (disputed) | |
| Al-Biruni (Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī) | Alberonius |  |
5 September 973-13 December 1048 | ||
| Ibn Sina (Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Sina) | Avicenna |  |
980-1037 | Hanafi, Ismaili (disputed) | Avicennism |
| Al-Qushayri (Abd al-Karim ibn Hawazin al-Qushayri) | 986-1072 | ||||
| Al-Ghazali (ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی,Abu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī) | Algazel |  |
1058-19 December 1111 | Shafi'ite, Asharite, Sufi | |
| Al Baghdaadi (Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi) | 1080-1165 | Illuminationism | |||
| Ibn Bajjah (أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ,Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh) | Avempace | 1095-1138 | |||
| Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani (ابوالمعالی عبدالله بن ابیبکر محمد میانجی,Abu’l-maʿālī ʿabdallāh Bin Abībakr Mohammad Mayānejī) | 1098-1131 | ||||
| Ibn Tufail (أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي,Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi) | Abubacer Aben Tofail | 1105-1185 | Maliki | ||
| Ibn Rushd (أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد,ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd) | Averroes |  |
1126-1198 | Maliki | Averroism |
| Farīd ud-Dīn (ابو حمید ابن ابوبکر ابراهیم,Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm) | 1145-1220 | ||||
| Najmuddin Kubra | 1145-1220 | Kubrawiyya | |||
| Umar Suhrawardi (Abu Hafs Umar al-Suhrawardi) | 1145-1234 | Suhrawardiyya | |||
| Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi) | 1149-1209 | Hanafi, Shafi'i | |||
| Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi (Shahāb ad-Dīn" Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardī) | Sohrevardi | 1155-1191 | Illuminationism | ||
| Ibn Arabi (أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن محمد بن عربي,Abū 'Abdillāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī ) |  |
8 July 1165-10 November 1240 | |||
| Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Khawaja Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Ṭūsī) |  |
18 February 1201- 26 June 1274 | Twelver Shi'ism | Avicennism | |
| Rumi (جلالالدین محمد بلخى, Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī) |  |
1207- 17 December 1273 | |||
| Ibn al-Nafis (علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي,Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi) |  |
1213-17 December 1288 | Shafi'i | Avicennism | |
| Qotb al-Din Shirazi (قطبالدین کازرونی شیرازی) | 1217-1311 | ||||
| Ibn Sabin (Abu Mohammed Abd el-Hakh Ibn Sabin) | 1236-1269 | ||||
| Mahmud Shabistari (محمود شبستری) | 1288-1340 | ||||
| Taftazani (سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی,ASa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani) | 1322-1390 | Hanafi, Maturidi | |||
| Abdul Karim Jili | 1366-1424 | Al Akbariyya | |||
| Ibn Khaldun (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي,Abū Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥman bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami) | 27 May 1332-19 March 1406 | Maliki | |||
| Jami (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی,Nur ad-Din Abd ar-Rahman Jami) |  |
18 August 1414-17 November 1492 | |||
| Mir Fendereski | 1562-1640 | Twelver Shi'ism | |||
| Mulla Sadra (Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī) | 1571-1641 | Twelver Shi'ism | Illuminationism, Existentialism | ||
| Mir Damad (Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi) | ?-1631 | Twelver Shi'ism | |||
| Qazi Sa’id Qumi | 1633-1692 | ||||
| Shah Waliullah (Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi) | 2 February 1703- 20 August 1762 | Hanafi | |||
| Allama Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال) |  |
9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938 | Hanafi | ||
| Allameh Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei (علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبائی) |  |
1892-1981 | Twelver Shi'ism | ||
| Mawlana Faizani (Mawlana Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani) | 17 April 1923- ? (possibly living) | ||||
| Grand Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli (عبدالله جوادی آملی) |  |
1933- | Ja'fari | Transcendent Theosophy | |
| Hossein Nasr (عبدالله جوادی آملی) |  |
7 April 1933- | Twelver Shi'ism | ||
| Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr (محمد باقر الصدر) |  |
1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980 | Usuli | ||
| Geydar Dzhemal |  |
6 November 1947- | |||
| Muqtedar Khan (مقتدر خان) |  |
1966- |
