Category
page 1Scholars of Sufism

Fethullah Gülen
Turkish preacher and imam (1941–2024)
Said Nursî
Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960)

Annemarie Schimmel
German scholar of Islam (1922-2003)

Hossein Nasr
Iranian philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar (born 1933)
Henry Corbin
French philosopher and and scholar of Islam (1903–1978)
Rudolf von Sebottendorf
German antisemite, freemason and founder of the Thule Society (1875-1945)
Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi
Sufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist
ʿAbd al-Hamid Kishk
Egyptian academic
Timothy Winter
British islamicist (1960-)
Laleh Bakhtiar
Iranian academic (1938-2020)
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki
prominent Sunni Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia
Umar bin Hafiz
Islamic scholar and teacher
Abdallah Bin Bayyah
Mauritanian Islamic scholar

Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
French writer

Döwletmämmet Azady
Turkmen poet
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
American writer, lecturer, translator of Quran from Arabic to modern English
Wahba Zuhayli
Islamic scholar (1932–2015)
Cemâlnur Sargut
Turkish research writer and publisher (*1952)
Muhammad al-Yaqoubi
Islamic scholar
Michel Chodkiewicz
French author and Sufi scholar (1929-2020)
Maria Massi Dakake
American Islamic scholar

Mumtaz Mufti
Pakistani writer (1905–1995)

Syed Waheed Ashraf
Indian Sufi scholar and poet
Feisal Abdul Rauf
American imam
Shems Friedlander
American Islamic scholar and Sufi master
Jean-Louis Michon
Traditionalist scholar and Sufi practitioner (1924–2013)
Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy
Islamic scholar
Eric Hermelin
Swedish writer (1860-1944)

Marcia K. Hermansen
American scholar of Islam
Omid Safi
American academic
Claude Addas
French-Polish scholar of Islam

Sa'diyya Shaikh
South African scholar
Abdullah Ibn Umar Badheeb Al Yamani
Islamic scholar