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Rabia of Basri
Iraqi sufi and poet
al-Ma'arri
'''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
Sufyan al-Thawri
Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)
Abdullah ibn Mubarak
islamic hadith Scholar and jurist (726–797)
Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
8th-century Islamic scholar
Wakee ibn al-Jarrah
Islamic hadith scholar (745/47–812)
Dawud al-Ta'i
8th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar and sufi
al-Shīrāzī
Shāfiʿī jurisconsult

Al-Darani
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.

Abd al-Wahid ibn Zaid
Sufi saint
Ibn Karram
founder of the Karramiyya sect
Mohammad Yousaf Abu al-Farah Tartusi
Syrian Sufi Muslim saint (1016–1055)