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  Gustave Le Bon

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  Ibn Tufail

  أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي، هو فيلسوف وفيزيائي وقاضي أندلسي مسلم، ولد في وادي آش، وهي تبعد 55 كم عن غرناطة، ثم تعلم الطب في غرناطة وخدم حاكمها. توفي في 581 هـ بمراكش وحضر السلطان جنازته.
  
  كان ابن طفيل فيلسوفاً ومفكراً وقاضياً وطبيباً وفلكياً. يمثل ابن طفيل الأب الروحي للنزعة الطبعية في التربية عبر كتابه "حي بن يقظان"، والذي حاول فيها التوفيق الفلسفي بين المعرفة العقلية والمعرفة الدينية. درس على يد ابن باجة وخدم في بلاط أبو يعقوب يوسف حاكم الأندلس من سلالة الموحدين.
  
  Ibn Tufail (c. 1105 – 1185) was an Arab Andalusian Muslim polymath: a writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official.
  
  As a philosopher and novelist, he is most famous for writing the first philosophi

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
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  Youssef Ziedan

  (Arabic: يوسف زيدان)
  
  Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
  Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
  
  Awards and Grants:
  - 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) In Association with the Booker Prize Foundation
  - Imam Muhammad Madi Abul-‘Aza’im Award in the field of Islamic studies in 1995.
  - ‘Abdul-Hamid Shuman Prize in the field of social studies in 1996 for his book Fawā’ih al-Jamāl wa Fawā’ih al Jalāl- ‘Fragrance of Beauty & Revelations of the Magestic’ by Nijm al-Dīn Kubrā.
  - A special Award from the International Academy of Learning in 1996 for his academic corpus.

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  Alija Izetbegović

  Lawyer and politician Alija Izetbegovic served as president of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 2000.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alija_I...
  

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  Naguib Mahfouz

  Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.

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  Tawfiq Al-Hakim

  Arabic page توفيق الحكيم
  
  Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم‎ Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the son of an Egyptian wealthy judge and a Turkish mother. The triumphs and failures that are represented by the reception of his enormous output of plays are emblematic of the issues that have confronted the Egyptian drama genre as it has endeavored to adapt its complex modes of communication to Egyptian society.

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  Dean Burnett

  Dean Burnett is a neuroscientist and psychiatry lecturer at the Centre for Medical Education at Cardiff University and is the author of the Guardian’s most-read science blog, Brain Flapping. He lives in Cardiff.
  
  The following is from his website:
  
  This is the website for Doctor Dean Burnett, neuroscientist, lecturer, author, blogger, media pundit, science communicator, comedian and numerous other things, depending on who’s asking and what they need.
  
  Although employed as a tutor and lecturer by the Cardiff University Centre for Medical Education in his day job, Dean is best known for his satirical science column ‘Brain Flapping‘ at the Guardian, and his internationally acclaimed debut book ‘The Idiot Brain‘.
  
  Dean Burnett was born and raised i

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  Mohamed Samir Nada (محمد سمير ندا)

  عن المؤلف
  
  محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القترة بين عاميّ ١٩٨٤ و١٩٩٠. عقب ذلك شدّ والديه الرحال مجدّدًا، غربًا هذه المرّة، ليقضي مرحلة صباه في طرابلس-ليبيا، حتّى عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر مجدّدًا عام ١٩٩٦.
  
  تخرّج في كليّة التجارة، وعمل محاسبًا في المجال السياحي، حتّى استقرّ به الحال في منصب ماليّ وإداريّ في إحدى الشركات العاملة في مجال السياحة والمطاعم. له أخّين هو الأوسط بينهما. متزوّج منذ عام ٢٠٠٨، ولديه ولدين.
  
  والده هو سمير ندا (١٩٣٨-٢٠١٣)، الأديب المصري المتفرّد الذي لمع نجمه في ستينيّات القرن الماضي، وقدّم للأدب المصري قامات أدبية شابة آنذاك؛ مثل جمال الغيطاني ويوسف القعيد وغيرهما. كما

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  Linda Colley

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  Stefan Berger

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  Lorenzo Veracini

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  Michael Vickery

  Michael Theodore Vickery (April 1, 1931 – June 29, 2017) was an American historian, lecturer, and author known for his works about the history of Southeast Asia.
  
  Vickery's research and writings have concentrated on ancient and modern history of Cambodia and Thailand with publications ranging from early history to contextual studies and interpretations of recent and contemporary Cambodia - being one of only a handful scholars, who comprehensively examined regional events during the 1980s.
  
  Vickery essentially contributed to and helped to extend the scholarly debate of the Pre-Angkorian kingdoms, the classic age and the Post-Angkor Period, introducing and integrating the works of the Cambodian scholars Khin Sok and Mak Phoen by utilizing their a

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  Israel Shahak

  Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל שחק‎; born Himmelstaub, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Israeli professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known especially as a liberal[1] political thinker, author, and civil rights activist.

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  Peter Gran

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  André Gunder Frank

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  Fawwaz Traboulsi

  Associate professor of Political Science and History at the Lebanese American University, and the American University of Beirut. Dr. Traboulsi has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Cairo University, and a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Wissenshaftskolleg, Berlin. His books, papers and articles have dealt with the history, politics, social movements, political philosophy, folklore, and art in the Arab World. Dr. Traboulsi’s translations include Edward Said’s Out of Place and Humanism and Democratic Critique. And his latest publication is A History of Modern Lebanon (in English and Arabic, 2007). Fawwaz Traboulsi, a long time journalist, is a columnist for a

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  Timur Kuran

  Born in 1954 in New York City, where his parents lived while graduate students at Yale University, Kuran spent his early childhood in Ankara, where his father taught at the Middle East Technical University. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Istanbul. For a decade, he lived just off the campus of Boğaziçi University, where his father was president and professor of Islamic architectural history.
  
  Kuran obtained his secondary education in Turkey, graduating from Robert College in Istanbul in 1973. He then studied economics at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude in 1977. He went on to Stanford University to obtain a doctorate in economics. His doctoral supervisor was Kenneth Arrow, a Nobel laureate.

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