The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Turkmenistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 72nd most number of Philosophers behind Jordan, and Sri Lanka.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Al-Shahrastani (1086 - 1153)
With an HPI of 64.36, Al-Shahrastani is the most famous Turkmen Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fath Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm ash-Shahrastānī (Arabic: تاج الدين أبو الفتح محمد بن عبد الكريم الشهرستاني; 1086–1153 CE), also known as Muhammad al-Shahrastānī, was an influential Persian historian of religions, a historiographer, Islamic scholar, philosopher and theologian. His book, Kitab al–Milal wa al-Nihal (lit. The Book of Sects and Creeds) was one of the pioneers in developing an objective and philosophical approach to the study of religions.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Turkmen philosophers born between 1086 and 1086. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Turkmen philosophers include Al-Shahrastani.
