Thinkers of the Medieval Period
Ali Hujwiri
1009 – 1072
Literaturequotes
Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri, known reverentially as Data Sahib, was an Islamic scholar and mystic who authored Kashf al-Mahjub, the earliest treatise on Sufism in the Persian language. Born in the Ghaznavid Empire, al-Hujwiri is believed to have contributed "significantly" to the spread of Islam in South Asia through his preaching.
Implore God to deliver you from the wickedness of your soul.
Ramanuja
1017 – 1137
Philosophyquotes
Ramanuja, also known as Ramanujacharya, was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and social reformer. He is one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotional practice were influential in the Bhakti movement.
When the food is pure the Sattva element gets purified, the memory becomes unwavering.
Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)
994 – 1064
Philosophyquotes
Ibn Hazm was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the strictest hadith interpreters, Ibn Hazm was a leading proponent and codifier of the Zahiri school of Islamic jurisprudence, and produced a reported 400 works, of which only 40 still survive.
There are mobile objects and stationary objects, but there is neither motion nor staticness.
Murasaki Shikibu
973 – 1014
Literaturequotes
Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm.
Al-Maʿarri
973 – 1057
Literaturequotes
Al-Biruni
973 – 1050
Mathematicsquotes
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranic scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.
Alberuni on Pre-Islamic India's Science, Math, and Architecture
Mahmud of Ghazni
971 – 1030
Militaryquotes
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi, was Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030. During his reign and in medieval sources, he is usually known by his honorific title Yamin al-Dawla. At the time of his death, his kingdom had been transformed into an extensive military empire, which extended from present-day northwestern Iran proper to the Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, Khwarazm in Transoxiana, and Makran.
In 930 AH Mahmud left for India from Ghazni and conquered many forts.
Avicenna
980 – 1037
Medicinequotes
Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
Words from October 25
"Implore God to deliver you from the wickedness of your soul."
Ali Hujwiri
1009
"Blind conformity had taken the place of spiritual enthusiasm."
Ali Hujwiri
1009
"When the food is pure the Sattva element gets purified, the memory becomes unwavering."
Ramanuja
1017
"What an individual pursues as a desirable end depends upon what he conceives himself to be."
Ramanuja
1017
"There are mobile objects and stationary objects, but there is neither motion nor staticness."
Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)
994
"Whosoever rises above things of this world, in front of which you kneel is much stronger than you."
Imam Ibn Hazm (R.A.)
994