Muslim reformers

President of Iran from 1997 to 2005

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

queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

French Algerian writer and film director (1936-2015)

Indian Muslim reformer and social activist (1817–1898)

1940-2015, Moroccan sociologist, writer and feminist

Iranian writer, scholar of Islam, and political activist(1933-1977)

Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)

Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India

Swiss Muslim scholar

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

cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989

Canadian educator (born 1968)

Syrian Muslim scholar and reformer (1865-1935)

The Jadid movement or Jadidism was a Turco-Islamic modernist political, religious, and cultural movement in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. They normally referred to themselves by the Tatar terms Taraqqiparvarlar ("progressives"), Ziyalilar ("intellectuals"), or simply Yäşlär/Yoshlar ("youth"). The Jadid movement advocated for an Islamic social and cultural reformation through the revival of pristine Islamic beliefs and teachings, while simultaneously engaging with modernity. Jadids maintained that Muslim peoples in Tsarist Russia had entered a period of moral and s

American Islamic scholar

Indian muslim scholar

Egyptian-American writer and professor

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

Islamic scholar

Danish iman and women's rights activist

Iranian writer and philosopher

American Islamic scholar (born 1958)

Syrian Sunni Muslim scholar (1929–2013)

Russian Tatar historian and theologian (1818–1889)

Egyptian Quranic thinker, author, and academic (1943-2010)

Daughter of Mahathir Mohamad

Turkish-German attorney (born 1963)

Iranian-American author, commentator

Egyptian writer, professor, and human rights activist (1945–1992)

British activist (born 1977)

Indian Muslim scholar (1863–1943)

Egyptian imam

Sudanese philosopher (1909-1985)

Indian Islamic Scholar (1857–1914)

Egyptian television preacher

Iranian Shia cleric and political activist

Algerian philosopher (1928–2010)

Indian activist

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

Syrian-German social and political scientist and university lecturer

Canadian/American Islamic scholar

Algerian philosopher (1905–1973)

Islamic theologian and historian

British-Pakistani writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual

Indian social reformer, thinker and writer (1932-1977)

Iranian journalist

Moroccan philosopher (1935-2010)

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

Iranian grand ayatollah (1937-2020)

prominent Sunni Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia

Muslim scholar (1939–2005)

Muslim activist

Islamic scholar and teacher

Indian writer and poet

18th-century Islamic scholar

Austrian imam and television preacher

Syrian writer (1909-1999)

Leader of the Nation of Islam (1933-2008)

French imam (born 1979)