Throughout history, there have been innumerable unsung heroes, Among these heroes, we have selected 4 amazing Amazigh personalities who have had a great impact on world history.
1- Apuleius
a Novelist, writer, public speaker who is born in c.124Â and lived in the Berber city of Madauros, Numidia north Africa
before traveling to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, he studied Platonism in Athens
His most famous work the Metamorphoses, known as The Golden Ass.
2- Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
know by the doctor of the church , he is Christian thinker born in November 13, 354, Tagaste, Numidia know these days by algeria
the most notable of his works are : the city of god and confessions
He was instrumental in laying the groundwork for much of medieval and modern Christian philosophy.
3- Averroes, (Ibn Rushd)
this prince of science born in 1126, Córdoba [Spain] and died in marrakech morocco.
was a North African jurist, physicist, astronomer, and philosopher
He authored the Decisive Treatise on the Agreement of Religious Law and Philosophy.
ibn rushd wrote physica, meteorologica, poetica, parva naturalia, Metaphysica, Rhetorica, the organon, de partibus, the Nicomachean Ethics, and de anima
in 1195 A.D the Caliph of muslims ordered the books of Ibn Rushd to be burnt, with the exception of his works on medicine, arithmetic and elementary astronomy.
4- Armen Firman (Ibn Firnas)
Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887 A.D.) known as the earliest developers of aviation science and the principles of flying.
He was a physician, chemist, engineer, aviator, and Andalusian musician.