Trans-Oxus Central Asia (Oxiana)
Philosophers of Trans-Oxus Central Asia (Oxiana)
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Abu Nasr al-Farabi
872 CE – 950 CE
Farab (Otrar), Transoxiana
Persian (Farab) philosopher from Farab (Otrar) associated with metaphysics, epistemology, and logic.
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
973 CE – 1048 CE
Kath (Khwarezm)
Khwarezmian Persian polymath whose mathematical astronomy, geodesy, chronology, comparative study of India, mineralogy, pharmacology, and scientific method shaped medieval Islamic and cross-cultural philosophy of science.
Avicenna
980 CE – 1037 CE
Afshana, near Bukhara
Persian philosopher-physician from Afshana near Bukhara whose system of metaphysics, essence/existence distinction, psychology, logic, medicine, natural philosophy, prophecy theory, and proof of the Necessary Existent shaped Islamic, Jewish, Latin scholastic, and early modern thought.