Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philol…
Vladimir Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Набоков) was a writer defined by a life of forced movement and extraordinary linguistic transformation. Born into a wealthy, liberal aristocratic family in St. Pete…
Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).
Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. Born in 1948, he was educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in theoretica…
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), born in Tokyo in 1923, was raised by his mother and an aunt in Kobe where he converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of eleven. At Tokyo's Keio University he majored in French l…
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paul…
Martin Lings was an English writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography…
is a philosopher, writer, translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts. He is best known for his work on Rumi and Ibn 'Arabi, and has written extensively on the sch…
Dr. William T. Cavanaugh, Ph.D. (Religion, Duke University; M.A., Theology and Religious Studies, Cambridge University) is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, …
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
Mehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav and a Bosnian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the greatest Bosnian writers of the 20th century. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegov…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, FRS, rose from a modest background as an assistant cabinet maker and school teacher to become one of the most influential theorists and leading philosophers. Popper commanded …
Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi (January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian-American philosopher, widely recognised by his peers as an authority on Islam and comparative religion. He spent several years…
توفي أبوه و هو طفل صغير و بقي في كنف أمه إلى أن تعلم الأدب، و العربية، ثم رحل بعد ذلك من "إستوا" القرية التي ولد بها، إلى نيسابور قاصدا تعلم ما يكفيه من طرق الحساب لحماية أهل قريته من ظلم عمال الخراج.…
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
Gregor Schoeler, born in Germany in 1944, is a contemporary non-Muslim Islamic scholar He has served the chair of Islamic studies at the University of Basel since 2009.
السيد محمد باقر الصدر فقيه ومفسر، ومفكر شيعي وفيلسوف، وقائد سياسي عراقي. درس العلوم الدينية عند كبار علماء الحوزة العلمية في النجف الأشرف واستطاع أن يصل إلى مرتبة الاجتهاد قبل سن العشرين. وبدأ بعدها ب…
زاول هشام جعيط تعليمه الثانوي بالمدرسة الصادقية ثم وفي سنة 1962 تحصل على الإجازة في تاريخ. تخصص في التاريخ الإسلامي وقام بنشر العديد من الأعمال صدرت سواء في العالم العربي أو أور…
Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for …
هو كاتب أديب وصحفي موريتاني يعمل مراسلا لقناة الجزيرة في جنوب إفريقيا. كان ولد الدين أهم صحافيي قناة الجزيرة الذين غطوا كأس العالم الذي نظم للمرة الأولى في إفريقيا عام 2010. يتميز بين مراسلي الجزيرة ب…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
ولد في الرياض عام 1952، لم يلتحق بالتعليم الابتدائي الا بعد أن أصبح عمره ثمان سنوات. تلقى تعليمه في الرياض حتى تخرجه من جامعة الرياض عام 1977 م. أكمل دراساته العليا في جامعة كاليفورنيا في لوس أنجلوس ب…
ولد هارولد ديكسون بمدينة بيروت في ولاية الشام بالدولة العثمانية في 4 فبراير 1881، كان والده القنصل العام البريطاني بالقدس، تلقى هارولد ديكسون تعليمه في مدرسة سانت إدورد بأكسفورد ثم أكمل تعليمه بكلية و…
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد) Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian A…
