BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/1I0AsHngdjc Abû Hâmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazâlî was born in 1055, 1056, 1058, or 1059 in Tabarân-Tûs, near Meshed, Iran. Educated in Tus and at the Nizâmiyya Madrasa in Nishapur,…

https://youtu.be/IALMW8XyiD0 Born about 872 either in Farab (in present-day Kazakhstan) or Faryab (in modern Afghanistan), Abu Nasr al-Farabi was a jurist and one of the earliest of Islamic philosophers. He…

https://youtu.be/8Wr64iWs4Ck A Jewish philosopher active in Christian Spain during the first half of the fifteenth century, Joseph Albo wrote Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim (Book of Principles), which was completed in 1425. Although…

https://youtu.be/ApZ7CWSh_EY Judah Leon Abrabanel, also known as Leone Ebreo (Leo the Hebrew), was born in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1460 and 1470. His only surviving major work is Dialoghi d’amore (“Dialogues…

https://youtu.be/l0GJWt6Urco Remembered in history and literature for his love affair with Héloïse d’Argenteuil (ca. 1090- 1164), in part memorialized in a classic collection of letters between the couple, Peter Abelard…

https://youtu.be/MXrHTMfaHTM Born in Baghdad in 1162, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi spent some four decades journeying throughout Iraq, Syria, and Egypt in search of a teacher who could satisfy his thirst for…