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All categories Literature & Letters202 Natural Sciences96 Mathematics & Computing36 Medicine & Healing Traditions99 Engineering & Technology24 Society, Peace & Law42 Economics, Business & Politics52 Music & Visual Arts0

Disciplines in Literature & Letters

All disciplines Literature125 Philosophy87 New Thought21 Theology10 History23 Linguistics1

Novelists, poets, philosophers, theologians, New Thought authors, historians and the students of language itself.

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Countries (20)

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Fatima al-Fihri

800 – 880

Founded al-Qarawiyyin in 859, the oldest continuously operating university.

Morocco·History

Ibn Battuta

1304 – 1369

Travelled some 120,000 km across the medieval world and wrote the Rihla.

Morocco·Literature · History

Ibn Khaldun

1332 – 1406

Founded sociology and economic history with the Muqaddimah.

Tunisia·History · Economics · Philosophy