Sunni fiqh scholars

8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist

Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)

Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi () (October 1233 – 21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).

Egyptian imam (1928-2010)

Muhammad ibn Saleh al-Uthaymin (; 9 March 192910 January 2001), commonly known by his Ibn Uthaymin (), was a Saudi Islamic scholar.

'''Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī (Arabic إمام الحرمين ضياء الدين عبدالملك بن يوسف الجويني, 17 February 102820 August 1085; 419–478 AH) was a Persian Sunni scholar famous for being the foremost leading jurisconsult, legal theoretician and Islamic theologian of his time. His name is commonly abbreviated as al-Juwayni'; he is also commonly referred to as Imam al-Haramayn'' meaning "leading master of the two holy cities", that is, Mecca and Medina. He acquired the status of a mujtahid in the field of fiqh and usul al-fiqh. Highly celebrated as one of the most important

'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.

Islamic scholar

Iranian theologian and writer

3rd sheikh of the Shadhili Sufi

Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth-century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history, and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh). He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers, and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is ''al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān'', a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.

Indian scholar and polymath (1908–2002)

Central Asian Hanafi scholar and theologian (died 1310)

Ottoman jurisprudence expert

Scholar of Islamic law (1898–1974)

Central Asian Hanafi theologian (1027–1115)

Ottoman scholar

Afghan Islamic philosopher and scholar (died 1605/06)

Turkish theologian with anti-republican views (1869–1954)

'''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

Shafi'i Islamic scholar (1284–1355)

Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet (1859–1937)

grandson of Caliph Abu Bakr and transmitter of hadith

Muhammad Zahid ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (; –1952), commonly known by the al-Kawthari (), was an Islamic scholar and theologian. A prolific author of over 40 works, al-Kawthari followed the Hanafi school of jurisprudence and championed the Maturidi school of theology.

Iraqi theologian and scholar (c. 868–909)

astronomer

Abu Muhammad Ruwaym bin Ahmad was an early Muslim jurist, ascetic, saint and reciter of the Qur'an. He was one of the second generation of practitioners of Sufism (tasawwuf).

islamic scholar/judge/poet/defender-Ottoman

scholar

Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist

Muslim jurist and theologian

professor of Islamic Law

Egyptian Islamic theologian

Moroccan Imam (1932–2020)

Saudi Arabian muhaddith, faqih and poet (1923-2002)

ottoman Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and poet

14th century Islamic Scholar and Jurist

12th c. Sunni Hanafi theologian

Sunni Islamic scholar from 11st century in Nishapur, Khorasan.

Moroccan scholar

British scholar

Muslim theologian and mystic (b. 1377, d. 1438)

muhaddith

12th c. Hanafi Sunni theologian

Egyptian writer and scholar of the Khalwati sufi order

Arab scholar

11th-century Uzbekistani Hanafi-Maturidi scholar

Abū ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥalīmī al-Qāḍī al-Ḥusayn b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī () also known as Al-Halimi (338 AH/949–50 CE - 403 AH/1012–3 CE), was a highly influential Sunni scholar and regarded as the foremost leading jurist, traditionist, and theologian in Transoxiana. He was one of the hadith masters who wrote significant works and was a prominent figure in the Shafi'i school of law and among the early Ash'aris.

Muslim preacher and jurist (1910–1993)

10th-century Islamic scholar

hanafi jurist and hadith expert