Mujaddid

Arab historiographer and historian

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was a Kurdish commander and political leader. He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant. At the height of his power, the Ayyubid realm spanned Egypt, Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, the Hejaz, Yemen, and Nubia.

Al-Ghazali, ( ( – 19 December 1111), Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Iranian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history.

seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)

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.

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

Muslim jurist and theologian (780–855)

'''Al-Shafi'i''' (; ;767–820 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, traditionist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. He is known to be the first to write a book upon the principles of Islamic jurisprudence, having authored one of the earliest work on the subject: al-Risala. His legacy and teaching on the matter provided it with a systematic form, thereby "fundamentally influencing the succeeding generations which are under his direct and obvious impact," and "beginning a new phase of the development of legal theory."

Arab Islamic jurist, theologian and hadith traditionist (711–795)

Umayyad caliph from 717 to 720

Islamic Saudi scholar, jurist and eponym of Wahhabi movement (1703–1792)

Egyptian Islamic jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)

Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994–1064)

Muslim theologian (874–936)

Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960)

Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher and judge (c.642–728)

12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher

South Asian Islamic scholar, Founder of Jamaat-e-Islami (1903–1979)

South African writer and orator (1918–2005)

Syrian Muslim scholar and reformer (1865-1935)

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (; 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science. For this reason, he was honoured one of the most prestigious and rarest titles: Shaykh al-Islām.

Persian Muslim theologian (853–944)

Indian muslim scholar

Philosopher (1564-1624)

Indian Islamic scholar and reformer, regarded as a founder of the Barelvi movement (1856–1921)

8th-century Muslim scholar and dreams interpreter

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.

'''Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī (Arabic إمام الحرمين ضياء الدين عبدالملك بن يوسف الجويني, 17 February 102820 August 1085; 419–478 AH) was a Persian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time. His name is commonly abbreviated as al-Juwayni'; he is also commonly referred to as Imam al-Haramayn'' meaning "leading master of the two holy cities", that is, Mecca and Medina. He acquired the status of a mujtahid in the field of fiqh and usul al-fiqh. Highly celebrated as one of the most important

Iranian historian

Egyptian writer (1889-1964)

A mujaddid () is an Islamic term for one who brings "renewal" () to the religion. According to the popular Muslim tradition, it refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of the Islamic calendar to revitalize Islam, cleansing it of extraneous elements and restoring it to its pristine purity. In contemporary times, a mujaddid is looked upon as the greatest Muslim of a century.

Persian Islamic scholar (died 1319)

Islamic scholar

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (; 950 – 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative Islamic theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith. He spent much of his life defending and strengthening the Ash'ari school of theology within Islam. An accomplished rhetorical stylist and orator, al-Baqillani was held in high regard by his contemporaries for his expertise in debating theological and jurisprudential issues. Al-Dhahabi referred to him as "the learned imam, incomparable master, foremost of the scholars, author of many books, and example of a

Egyptian scientist and Muslm and author (1921–2009)

Indian Muslim scholar (1863–1943)

Syrian theologian and philosopher (1855–1902)

Indian Islamic Scholar (1857–1914)

Islamic scholar (1911–1998)

'''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.

6th-century founder of Rifa'i Sufi Order

Indian Islamic scholar, thinker, author, orator and critic of Arab Nationalist (1913–1999)

Moorish scholar

3rd sheikh of the Shadhili Sufi

Ali ibn Umar al-Daraqutni (; 918–995 CE / 306–385 AH), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist best known for compiling the hadith collection Sunan al-Daraqutni. He is commonly celebrated in Sunni tradition with titles such as "Imam" and "Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith".

Islamic theologian and historian

theologian

Indian Islamic scholar (1746–1824)

prominent Sunni Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia

Islamic scholar

Muslim scholar of medieval period

Tunisian theologian, professor and rector of the University of Ez-Zitouna (1879-1973)

Indian scholar and activist

Scholar of Islamic law (1898–1974)

Central Asian Hanafi theologian (1027–1115)

Islamic scholar

Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)

Harari Islamic scholar

'''Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ') was a highly influential Egyptian scholar. He was an eminent jurist, traditionist, historian, mystic and theologian. He was one of the Islamic revivalists and scholastic saints of the sixteenth century. He is credited for reviving Islam and is one of the most prolific writers of the early Egyptian-Ottoman period. His legal, spiritual, and theological writings are still widely read in the Muslim world today. He is regarded as "one of the last original thinkers in Islam." He was the founder of an Egyptian order of Su

18th-century Islamic scholar