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Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.
Mehmed II
seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Aurangzeb
Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. Under his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent, with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent.
Abū Ḥanīfa
8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist
Turgut Özal
8th President of the Republic of Turkey (1927–1993)
Ali-Shir Nava'i
Turkic poet and politician (1441–1501)
Abay Kunanbaiuly
Kazakh poet, philosopher and composer (1845-1904)
Nur ad-Din
Emir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus (1154–1174)
Deobandi
revivalist movement within Sunni Islam
Fatma Aliye Topuz
Turkish writer and self-described feminist (1862–1936)
Al-Zamakhshari
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari (; 1074 –1143) was a medieval Muslim scholar of Iranian descent. He travelled to Mecca and settled there for five years and has been known since then as 'Jar Allah' (God's Neighbor). He was a Mu'tazilite theologian, linguist, poet and interpreter of the Quran. He is best known for his book Al-Kashshaf, which interprets and linguistically analyzes Quranic expressions and the use of figurative speech for conveying meaning. This work is a primary source for all major linguists.
Kâtip Çelebi
Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer
Ismail Samani
Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Mu'in al-Din Chishti
Persian Sufi Chishtiyya order mystic (1143–1236)
Yusuf Khass Hajib
Turkic poet
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
Indian muslim scholar
Ahmad Sirhindi
Philosopher (1564-1624)
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
Indian Islamic scholar and reformer, regarded as a founder of the Barelvi movement (1856–1921)
Mustafa Cerić
Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1993 to 2012
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev
Chechen commander (1966-2006)
Baba Farid
12th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic
Barelvi movement
South Asian Islamic revivalist movement
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Arab jurist and a disciple of Abu Hanifa (749/50–805)
Nizamuddin Auliya
One of the most prominent Indian Sufi Saint, lived most of his life around Delhi. Spiritual guide to Amir Khusrau
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī () (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian. He studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. He is known for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of Sunni Islamic creed which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.
Ali Hujwiri
Sufi mystic
Kemalpaşazade
Ottoman historian, jurist and poet (1469–1534)
Ahmet Cevdet Pasha
Ottoman statesman (1822-1895)
Şihabetdin Märcani
Russian Tatar historian and theologian (1818–1889)
Ebussu'ud Efendi
Ottoman Grand Mufti
Ahmad ibn Arabshah
Arab writer
Hussain Ahmad Madani
Indian freedom struggle leader and scholar
Al-Mu'azzam Isa
Ayyubid Sultan of Damascus 1218–1227
Ashraf Ali Thanwi
Indian Muslim scholar (1863–1943)
Mamunul Haque
Bangladeshi Islami politician And Deobandi scholars
Sultan Walad
philosopher and poet of Persian origin, son of Jalal al-Din Rumi
Kadi Burhan al-Din
Turkish sultan and poet
Musa Bigiev
Tatar Islamic scholar, theologian philosopher, translator (1874–1949)
Shibli Nomani
Indian Islamic Scholar (1857–1914)
Sheikh Edebali
The Spiritual founder of the Ottoman Empire. Father of Rabia Bala Malhun Hatun, the wife of Osman Ghazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire and grandfather of Vizier Alaeddin Pasha, Second Ottoman Sultan Orhan Ghazi and 6 other grandchildren.
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
Indian Muslim scholar and independence activist (1851–1920)
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
Muslim scholar
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
Indian Islamic scholar, thinker, author, orator and critic of Arab Nationalist (1913–1999)
Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi
Sufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist
Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani
Persian writer, theologian
Taftazani
'''Sa'ad al-Din Massud b. Fahruddin Omar b. Burhanaddin Abdullah al-Haravi al-Khorasani at-Taftazani ash-Shafi'i )also known as Al-Taftazani and Teftazani'''(1322–1390) was a Muslim Persian polymath. A sh'ari theologian and Shafi'i jurist.
Badr al-Din al-Ayni
Sunni Hanafi Islamic scholar (1360–1453 CE)
Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki
Indian Sufi
Husein Kavazović
Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2012
Al Khakim At Termizi
Islamic studies scholar
Zakariyya Kandhlawi
Indian hadith scholar and ideologist of Tablighi Jamaat (1898–1982)
Yusuf Hamdani
Central Asian Sufi teacher (1048/49–1140)
Imam Zufar
8th century Hanafi scholar
Sarakhsi
Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Abi Sahl Abu Bakr al-Sarakhsi (), was a Persian jurist and also an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of thought. He was traditionally known as Shams al-A'imma (; ).
Mohammed al-Ghazali
Egyptian Islamic scholar (1917–1996)
Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
Medieval astronomer and mathematician
Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr Sakkākī
13th-century Islamic scholar and rhetorician
Mahmud al-Alusi
Iraqi Islamic scholar and poet (1802–1854)
Ḥusain Wāʿiẓ Kāšifī
Iranian writer, astronomer and mathematician
Ğäbdennasıyr Qursawi
Tatar theologian, religious reformer, Islamic scholar and educator