20th-century imams

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

49th Imam of Nizari Isma'ilism Muslims

American-Yemeni imam and suspected Islamist extremist (1971–2011)

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community (1877-1957)

imam and preacher at the Grand Mosque in Mecca

Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani (born Muhamed Nasirudin Nexhati; 16 August 19143 October 1999), commonly known as al-Albani, was an Albanian Islamic hadith scholar (muhaddith), regarded as one of the prominent figures of modern Salafism. He was known for his rigorous re-evaluation of hadith literature and for rejecting adherence to traditional schools of jurisprudence. Al-Albani became a controversial yet-influential reformer within Sunni Islam.

Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar and mufti (1912–1999)

Imam (1869–1948)

Syrian Muslim preacher (1882–1935)

Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 2012

former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia (1999–2025)

Egyptian imam (1928-2010)

Muhammad ibn Saleh al-Uthaymin (; 9 March 192910 January 2001), commonly known by his Ibn Uthaymin (), was a Saudi Islamic scholar.

Former Imam Saudi at Masjid al-Haram

Russian mufti and religious leader

Hamas leader (1959-2009)

Polish Imam (1884-1966)

Saudi Arabian author and Da'i

Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2012

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1917–1996)

Turkish statesperson (1870–1938)

Syrian-born Palestinian-Saudi Islamic scholar (born 1960)

Egyptian imam (1893-1963)

Saudi Imam

Grand Mufti of India, Nepal, Bhutan and other countries living Indian origins

Turkish religious leader (1929–2022)

former Imam of Masjid al-Haram (1954–2005)

Uzun-Hajji of Salta (1848 – 30 March 1920) was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who was Emir of the North Caucasian Emirate during the Russian Civil War. The sheikh of a Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa and a political exile prior to the Russian Revolution, he was one of the leaders of the in the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, and he served as a member of parliament for the country.

Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)

former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Grand Mufti of Syria (1915-2004)

Muslim author, Faqīh, Da'i

Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet (1859–1937)

Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric

Imaam at Masjid al-Nabawi

Pakistani Islamic scholar, preacher and theologian (1957–2013)

American homosexual Muslim activist

11th Reisu-l-ulema

religious leader from Iran

Algerian Islamic scholar

Egyptian imam (1941–2023)

7th Reisu-l-ulema

6th Reisu-l-ulema

Imam and Khatib at Prophet's Mosque Medina

North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader (1859–1925)

American imam

Moroccan Imam (1932–2020)

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Palestinian terror suspect

Saudi Qari and Imam

Moroccan Imam (1941–2020)

Palestinian imam and judge

Muslim scholar (1920-1997)

Finnish Tatar imam

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar

Moroccan scholar

Bosniak mufti

10th Reisu-l-ulema

Nigerian imam

German Muslim leader and scholar