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Islamic studies scholars

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

17th-century Iranian Shia philosopher and theologian

İbrahim Kalın

Director of the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey

Toshihiko Izutsu

Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)

Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati

Arab grammarian

Egyptian scholar

Yaşar Nuri Öztürk

Turkish philosopher (1951–2016)

Laura Veccia Vaglieri

Italian orientalist (1893–1989)

Aleksey Vasilyev

Russian Arabist and Africanist (born 1939)

Saadatu Hassan Liman

Vice Chancellor of Nasarawa State University Keffi

South Korean translator

Alessandro Bausani

Italian islamic studies scholar, historian of religion and Esperantist (1921–1988)

Islamic scholar (1932–2015)

Mehdi Mohaghegh

Iranian academic

Mohd Kamal Hassan

Malaysian academic (1942–2023)

Mykhaylo Yakubovych

Ukrainian academic

Mustafa Abu Sway

Palestinian Islamic scholar

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Afghan legal scholar

German Muslim religious educator, theologian and imam (1957-2024)

Kojiro Nakamura

Japanese scholar of Islam (1936–2023)

Ali Sher Hyderi

former Chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

Swiss orientalist (1912-1998)

Swiss Islam expert and drug researcher

Sayf Abdullah Ibn Ahmed Al-Wazir

Islamic law scholar