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This week's featured author pages

Avicenna (980 - 1037) -- greatest Islamic philosopher, whose writings also influenced the fields of science and medicine

Lucius Apuleius (125 - 200) -- 2nd-century Roman writer and philosopher

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880) -- author of the early 19th century whose perfection of a naturalistic and precisionary style has made him legendary.

Jerome D. Salinger (1919 - 0) -- 20th century American novelist

Yaaqub ibn Ishaq al- Kindi (870 - 870) -- one of the first Arab philosophers, who facilitated the exploration of Greek philosophy in the Islamic tradition