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Idries Shah
Afghan Sufi teacher (1924-1996)

Isabelle Eberhardt
Swiss explorer and author (1877-1904)

Busiri
thumb|left|A verse from al-Busiri's poem al-Burda on the wall of his shrine in [[Alexandria]]
Al-Būṣīrī (; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji Sufi Sunni Muslim poet belonging to the Shadhili, and a direct disciple of the Sufi saint Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi. His magnum opus, the Qaṣīda al-Burda "Poem of the Mantle" in praise of Prophet Muhammad is one of the most popular Islamic poems of the genre. It is in Arabic, as is his other ode named "Al-Hamziyya".
Abu Nu`aym
Persian Islamic scholar (948–1038)

Titus Burckhardt
Swiss philosopher, art historian, cultural anthropologist and traditionalist author (1908-1984)
William Chittick
American philosopher, writer and translator
Laleh Bakhtiar
Iranian academic (1938-2020)
Ibrahim El-Desouki
Egyptian founder of Desouki Sufi Order (1255–1296)
Abdul Karim Jili
Muslim Sufi saint and mystic
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud
Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)
Ahmad al-Buni
Muslim mathematician, philosopher and Sufi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Persian mystical or Sufi philosopher (1207-1274)
Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami
Khorasani sufi and Persian poet
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
Ibrahim Niass
Senegalese sufi saint (1900-1975)
Gabriele Mandel
Italian psychologist, writer, and artist of Afghan descent (1924–2010)
Muhammad Ghawth
16th-century Sufi master of the Shattari order and Sufi saint, a musician, and the author of Jawahir-i Khams
Ashraf Jahangir Semnani
Indian Sufi saint

Syed Waheed Ashraf
Indian Sufi scholar and poet
Syed Mahbub E Khoda
Age reformer, Religious Teacher, Sufi & Freedom Fighter
Muhyî-i Gülşenî
Turkish dervish
Virginia Gray Henry Blakemore
American Islamic scholar
Irina Tweedie
Russian-British Sufi
Saʿd al-Dīn al-Ḥamuwayī
Persian Ṣūfī
Wajihuddin Alvi

Christine Brodbeck
Swiss dancer and Muslim writer
Nur Qutb Alam
medieval Sufi saint of Bengal
Syed Muhammad Zauqi Shah
Sufi scholar (1878–1951)
Mehmet Emin Tokadi
ottoman calligrapher
Reza Shah-Kazemi
Islamic author
Aḥmad Samʿānī
Arab scholar
Sharfuddin Abu Tawwama
Islamic scholar, author, muhaddith
Syed Mohammed Madni Ashraf
Indian Muslim scholar, cleric and mufti