Damascus in the Islamic Golden Age

The atlas holds 5 people and 8 moments here, from 833 to 1248. The most recorded lives are Rumi, Al-Ghazali and Al-Farabi.

Al-Farabi
from 943 to 950
2 moments here
Abu Nasr al-Farabi was an early Islamic philosopher, logician, and music theorist. The surviving reliable evidence for his movements is sparse: it…
Al-Ghazali
from 1095 to 1096
2 moments here
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazali was a Persian Sunni jurist, theologian, philosopher, logician, and mystic.…
Muhammad al-Bukhari
in 833
1 moment here
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810–870) was a hadith scholar from Bukhara whose travels for study, teaching, and transmission ranged across Central…
Rumi
from 1233 to 1248
2 moments here
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a Persian-language poet, jurist, teacher, and Sufi mystic. Born at Wakhsh in the Khwarazmian Empire, he moved with his…
Saladin
in 1193
1 moment here
Kurdish military commander, founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, and sultan of Egypt and Syria. Born at Tikrit, Saladin rose through the Zengid…