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Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, commonly known as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a Sufi mystic, poet, and founder of the Islamic brotherhood known as the Mevlevi Order. His family hailed from Balkh. Rumi is an influential figure in Sufism, and his thought and works loom large both in Persian literature and mystic poetry in general. Today, his translated works are enjoyed all over the world.
Ibn Arabi
Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
Rabia of Basri
Iraqi sufi and poet
Inayat Khan
founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and teacher of Universal Sufism
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr
Persian poet and Sufi mystic (967–1049)
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
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.
Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
11th-century Sufi scholar and saint
Idries Shah
Afghan Sufi teacher (1924-1996)
Baba Farid
12th-century Punjabi Sunni Muslim preacher and mystic
Ali Hujwiri
Sufi mystic
Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri
'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (, ; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist, legal theoretician, commentator of the Qur’an, muhaddith, grammarian, spiritual master, orator, poet, and an eminent scholar who mastered a number of Islamic sciences. Al-Qushayri, combined the routine instruction of a Shafi'i law specialist and Hadith expert (muhaddith) with a solid slant to mysticism and ascetic lifestyle.
Sarmad Kashani
Persian mystic, poet and saint
Rahman Baba
Pashtun Sufi Saint
Sahl al-Tustari
arabian Sufi, Islamic theologian
Ali Gomaa
Egyptian imam
Bulleh Shah
Punjabi poet
Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani
Iranian Sufi (963–1033)
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
Sufi writer
Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
Sufi saint, philosopher and poet
Sachal Sarmast
Sindhi poet
Ibn 'Ata Allah
3rd sheikh of the Shadhili Sufi
Maruf Karkhi
Baghdadi Sufi Muslim saint (c.750/60–c.815/20)
Ibn Sab'in
Muslim philosopher
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
19th-century sufi Punjabi poet of the punjab , polyglot, scholar and writer
Ilyas Qadri
Pakistani Islamic scholar
'A'isha al-Ba'uniyya
medieval Arabic Sufi master and poet
Khâlid-i Baghdâdî
Iraqi Sufi mystic and poet (1779–1827)
Sari al-Saqati
9th-century Baghdadi Sufi Muslim saint
Abu Bakr al-Shibli
Persian Sufi scholar (861–946)
Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani
Iranian writer and academic
Sâmiha Ayverdi
Turkish novelist and writer (1905–1993)
Mian Mir
Sufi saint (1550-1635)
Zakariyya al-Ansari
Islamic scholar
Lady Amin
Jurisprudent and theologian
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud
Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)
Hazrat Babajan
Indian Sufi
Dawud al-Ta'i
8th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar and sufi
Şaranî
'''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
Abul Abbas al-Mursi
saint
Ala ud-Daula Simnani
Iranian Sufi saint
Hamzah Fansuri
Indonesian writer
Jahonotin Uvaysiy
Uzbekistani poet
Aisha Al-Manoubya
Muslim saint in Tunisia
Abū Sa‘īd al-Kharrāz
Hazrat Ishaan
Sufi saint from Bokhara
Abu Talib al-Makki
Scholar, mystic
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Sri Lankan Sufi leader
Allauddin Siddiqui
Islamic Sufi Scholar
Ashraf Jahangir Semnani
Indian Sufi saint
Cemâlnur Sargut
Turkish research writer and publisher (*1952)
Abu Nasr as-Sarraj
Sufi
Hafsa bint Sirin
early scholar of Islam
Sheikh Hamza Makhdoom
Kashmiri Sufi Saint
Lalla Zaynab
Algerian Sufi religious leader
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.
Shams Ali Qalandar
Sufi saint
Abu Hafs Amr ibn Salam Haddad
Syed Waheed Ashraf
Indian Sufi scholar and poet
Abul-Abbas Qassab Amoli
11th-century Iranian Sufi mystic
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Sufi religious teacher (1953-)