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Adi Shankara
700 – 750Systematised Advaita Vedanta and reorganised Hindu monasticism.
India·Philosophy · Theology
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 – 1037Wrote the medical textbook that trained Europe's doctors until 1650.
Uzbekistan·Medicine · Philosophy · AstronomyFull profile
Al-Ghazali
1058 – 1111Reoriented Islamic thought toward inwardness and challenged the philosophers on their own ground.
Iran·Philosophy · Theology
Rumi
1207 – 1273Sufi poet whose Masnavi is among the best-selling poetry on Earth today.
Afghanistan·Literature · Philosophy