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Disciplines in Literature & Letters
Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.
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9 figures
Adi Shankara
700 – 750Systematised Advaita Vedanta and reorganised Hindu monasticism.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 – 1037Wrote the medical textbook that trained Europe's doctors until 1650.
Al-Ghazali
1058 – 1111Reoriented Islamic thought toward inwardness and challenged the philosophers on their own ground.
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
1126 – 1198His Aristotle commentaries restarted European philosophy.
Maimonides
1138 – 1204Guide for the Perplexed reconciled reason and revelation for Judaism.
Rumi
1207 – 1273Sufi poet whose Masnavi is among the best-selling poetry on Earth today.
Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274Fused Aristotle with Christianity; natural-law theory still shapes law and ethics.
Dante Alighieri
1265 – 1321Made a dialect into a nation's language and mapped the moral universe.
Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406Founded sociology and economic history with the Muqaddimah.