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Miskawayh

932 - 1030

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Ibn Miskuyah (Persian: مُسْکُـوْيَه Muskūyah, 932–1030), (Arabic: مِسْكَوَيْه، أبو علي محمد بن أحمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي) full name Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī was a Persian chancery official of the Buyid era, and philosopher and historian from Parandak, Iran. As a Neoplatonist, his influence on Islamic philosophy is primarily in the area of ethics. He was the author of the first major Islamic work on philosophical ethics entitled the Refinement of Character (تهذيب الأخلاق Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq), focusing on practical ethics, conduct, and the refinement of character. He separated personal ethics from the public realm, and contrasted the liberating nature of reason with the deception and temptation of nature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miskawayh is the 293rd most popular philosopher (down from 247th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 76th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Miskawayh was a 10th century Persian scholar who wrote a book on ethics and morality.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Miskawayh ranks 293 out of 1,267. Before him are Thomas Carlyle, Speusippus, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Jacques Maritain, Alain Badiou, and Alfred Tarski. After him are Rudolf Bultmann, Bruno Bauer, Strato of Lampsacus, Heraclides Ponticus, William Godwin, and Wang Yangming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 932, Miskawayh ranks 2. Before him is Pope Marinus II. After him are Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Sancho I of León, Adalbert of Italy, At-Ta'i, Abu Sulayman Sijistani, Dong Yuan, and Abu Firas al-Hamdani. Among people deceased in 1030, Miskawayh ranks 3. Before him are Olaf II of Norway, and Mahmud of Ghazni. After him are William V, Duke of Aquitaine, Adalberon, Ernest II, Duke of Swabia, and Krešimir III of Croatia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Miskawayh ranks 83 out of 631. Before him are Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), Sogdianus of Persia (-500), Bayazid Bastami (804), Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), Mohammad Khatami (1943), and Al-Hadi (764). After him are Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ismail II (1533), Abbas II of Persia (1633), Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1305), and Barkiyaruq (1081).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Miskawayh ranks 6. Before him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Al-Tabari (839), Bodhidharma (483), Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), and Bayazid Bastami (804). After him are Mazdak (450), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Mulla Sadra (1571), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145).

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