Muslim ascetics

Iraqi sufi and poet

'''Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri (; December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis''', was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo (in present day Syria). Because of his antireligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time", although his worldview was closer to deism. However, in his defensive treatise Zajr al-Nabeh (The Repelling of the Barker)—a manuscript edited and published in 1965—al-Ma'arri explicitly identified himself as a faithful Muslim and systematically refuted the accusations of heresy leveled

Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)

islamic hadith Scholar and jurist (726–797)

8th-century Islamic scholar

Islamic hadith scholar (745/47–812)

8th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar and sufi

Shāfiʿī jurisconsult

Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī () was an ascetic sage of the 2nd–3rd/8th–9th century and one of the earliest theoreticians of formal mysticism in Islam.

Sufi saint

founder of the Karramiyya sect

Syrian Sufi Muslim saint (1016–1055)