Timeline of Philosophers - The Islamic World

Sergius of Resh'aynad. 536
Jahm ibn Ṣafwānd. 745/6
Wāṣil ibn 'Aṭā'd. 748
Rābi'a al-'Adawiyyad. ca. 790's
David Muqammiṣearly 9th c.
al-Naẓẓāmd. 845/6
Abū l-Hudhayld.849
al-Kindīd. after 870
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāqd. 873
Umm 'Alī of Balkhd. second half 9th c.
Isḥāq ibn Ḥunaynd. 910/911
al-Ḥallājd. 922
Abū Bakr al-Rāzīd. 925
Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzīd. 934
Abū Zayd al-Balkhīd. 934
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ash'arīd. 935/936
Abū Bishr Mattād. 940
Sa'ādia Gaon882-942
al-Fārābīd. 950/951
Isaac Israelid. ca. 955
Brothers of Purity (Ikhwān al-Ṣafā')10th c.
Abū Ya'qūb al-Sijistānīd. ca. 971
Yaḥya ibn 'Adīd. 974
Abū Sa'īd al-Sīrāfīd. 979
al-'Āmirīd. 991
al-Bāqillānīd.1013
al-Kirmānīd. after 1020
'Abd al-Jabbārd. 1024/5
Miskawayhd. 1030
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)d. 1037
Ibn al-Haytham965-1039
Abū al-Faraj ibn al-Ṭayyibd.1043
Abū Sa'īd Ibn Abī l-Khayrd. 1048
al-Bīrūnīd. ca. 1050
Solomon Ibn Gabirold. 1057/8
al-Juwaynīd. 1085
Ibn Ḥazmd. 1063
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālīd.1111
Aḥmad al-Ghazālīd. 1126
'Ayn al-Quḍat al-Hamadhānīd. 1131
Moses Ibn Ezrad. after 1135
Ibn Tūmartd. 1130
Ibn Bājja (Avempace)d. 1139
Judah Hallevid. 1141
al-Shahrastānīd. 1153
Baḥya Ibn Paqūdād. ca. 1156
Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādīd. 1160's
Abraham Ibn Ezrad. 1167
Abraham Ibn Daudd. ca. 1180
Ibn Ṭufayld. 1185
Moses Ibn Tibbonfl. 1244-83
Suhrawardīd. 1191
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)d. 1198
Abraham ben David (Rabad)d. 1198
Moses Ibn Maymun (Maimonides)1135-1204
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzīd.1210
Afḍal al-Dīn al-Kāshānī (Bābā Afḍal)d.1213/14
'Abd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādīd. 1231
Isaac the Blindd. ca. 1235
Ibn ‘Arabīd. 1240
Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharīd. 1265
Naḥmanidesd. 1270
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Rūmīd. 1273
Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawīd. 1274
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsīd. 1274
Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnīd. 1276
Ibn Kammūnad. 1284
Bar Hebraeusd. 1286
Ibn al-Nafīsd. 1288
Shams al-Dīn Shahrazūrīd. after 1288
Isaac Albalagfl.1280’s-90’s
Abraham Abulafiad. ca. 1291
Shem Tov Ibn Falaqerad. ca. 1295
Moses de Leond. 1305
Solomon Ibn Adretd. 1310
Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzīd. 1311
ʿAbd Allāh al-Bayḍāwīd. 1316
Allamā al-Ḥillīd. 1325
Ibn Taymiyyad.1328
Levi Ben Gershom (Gersonides)1288-1344
'Adud al-Dīn al-Ījīd. 1355
Sa'd al-Dīn al-Taftazānīd. 1390
Ibn Khaldūnd. 1406
Ḥasdai Crescasd. 1410/11
Mullā Fanārīd.1431
Joseph Albod. 1444
Ḥōṭer ben Shelōmōfl. 1430's
'Alā' al-Dīn al-Qūshjīd. 1474
'Alā' al-Dīn al-Ṭūsīd.1482
Khwāja Zāda (Khojazāda)d.1488
Ṣadr al-Dīn Dashtakīd. 1498
Jalāl al-Dīn Dawānīd.1501
Isaac Abravaneld. 1508
Najm al-Dīn al-Nayrīzīd. after 1526
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Dashtakīd. 1541
Muṣliḥ al-Dīn al-Lārīd. 1572
'Alī Çelebi Kinalizāded. 1572
Moses Almosninod. ca. 1580
Fatḥallāh Shīrāzīd. 1589
Shaykh Bahā'īd. 1621
Mīr Damādd. 1631
Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī)d.1640
Maḥmud Jawnpūrīd. 1652
Kātib Çelebid. 1657
Dārā Shikūhd. 1659
Muḥibballāh al-Bihārīd. 1707
'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusīd. 1731
Niẓām al-Dīn Sihālvī Farangī Maḥallīd. 1748
Shāh Walī Allāhd. 1762
Faḍl al-Ḥaqq Khayrābādīd. 1861
Sabzawārīd. 1878
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānīd. 1897
Sayyid Aḥmad Khānd. 1898
Muḥammad 'Abdūhd. 1905
Ahmed Hilmid. 1914
Ziya Gökalpd. 1924
Abdullah Cevdetd. 1932
Fatma Aliyed. 1936
Muḥammad Iqbāld. 1938
Ṭabāṭabā'īd. 1981
'Ā'isha 'Abd al-Raḥmān (Bint al-Shāṭi')d. 1998
Mohammed Arkound. 2010
Seyyed Hossein Nasrborn 1933
Fatema Mernissid. 2015

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Abbreviations:

cent. = century

d. = died

fl. = flourished

ca.= circa ("approximately")