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Jalaluddin al-Mahalli
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shihāb ad-Dīn Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥallī (; 1389–1459 CE); aka was an Egyptian renowned mufassir and a leading specialist in the principles of the law in Shafi'i jurisprudence. He authored numerous and lengthy works on various branches of Islamic Studies, among which the most important two are Tafsir al-Jalalayn and Kanz al-Raghibin, an explanation of Al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talibin, a classical manual on Islamic Law according to Shafi'i fiqh.
Abdel-Halim Mahmoud
Egyptian Sufi and Sheikh (1910–1978)
Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Idris al-Razi
9th-century Persian hadith scholar
Anwar Shah Kashmiri
Islamic scholar
Uzun-Hajji
Uzun-Hajji of Salta (1848 – 30 March 1920) was a North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader who was Emir of the North Caucasian Emirate during the Russian Civil War. The sheikh of a Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa and a political exile prior to the Russian Revolution, he was one of the leaders of the in the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, and he served as a member of parliament for the country.
Ali al-Qari
Afghan Islamic philosopher and scholar (died 1605/06)
Azizul Haque
Islamic studies scholar
Meher Ali Shah
Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet (1859–1937)
Ahmad Zayni Dahlan
Ottoman Grand Mufti of Mecca (1816–1886)
Ibn Kullab
Islamic Theologian
Abdullah al-Harari
Harari Islamic scholar
Taqi al-Din al-Subki
Shafi'i Islamic scholar (1284–1355)
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
Ibn Aqil
Baghdad based Islamic theologian (1040–1119)
Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri
Iraqi theologian and scholar (c. 868–909)
Adil al-Kalbani
Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric
al-Shīrāzī
Shāfiʿī jurisconsult
Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
Hadith scholar of Mosul
Masʿūd Ibn-Aḥmad Kāsānī
''''Ala' al-Din al-Kasani (), known as Al-Kasani or al-Kashani''', was a 12th Century Sunni Muslim Jurist who became an influential figure of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which has remained the most widely practiced law school in the Sunni tradition.
Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari
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.
Liu Zhi
Chinese Muslim scholar
Salah Al Budair
Imaam at Masjid al-Nabawi
Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi
10th-century Samarkand Sunni-Hanafi scholar, judge and sage
Qamaruzzaman Azmi
Indian Imam
Yusuf Ma Dexin
Chinese Islamic scholar
The Four Imams
Wikimedia list article
Mufti Amjad Ali Aazmi
Grand Mufti of India (1882-1948)
Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar
astronomer
Daayiee Abdullah
American homosexual Muslim activist
Muhammad al-Munawi
'''Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munāwi (), also known as Al-Munāwi''' () was an Egyptian Islamic scholar of the Ottoman period. He was a prominent Shafi'i jurist, hadith specialist, historian, and sufi mystic. He is considered one of the most greatest Sunni scholars and prolific writers of his time. His most celebrated work, Fayd al-Qadir, stands as a cornerstone of classical Islamic scholarship. He was the paternal great-grandson of Sharaf al-Din al-Munawi and was the famous disciple of Al-Sha'rani.
Nafi Mawla ibn Umar
faqih and muhaddith
Ahmad ibn Ajiba
Moroccan Sufi saint
Zubayr Ali Za'i
Pakistani Islamic scholar, preacher and theologian (1957–2013)
Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri
Indian Islamic scholar and sufi saint of Hindustan
Muhammad al-Arabi al-Darqawi
Moroccan Sufi master
Kamal al-Din ibn al-Humam
Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist
Najmuddin of Gotzo
North Caucasian religious, military, and political leader (1859–1925)
Ruwaym
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).
Yusuf an-Nabhani
islamic scholar/judge/poet/defender-Ottoman
Al-Fakihi
'''Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn al-'Abbas al-Fakihi''' (, born 215–220 AH; died 272-279 AH) was an eminent 9th-century historian and hadith scholar of Mecca. He narrated hadiths from preeminent hadith scholars such as Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Abu Hatim al-Razi and Abu Zur'ah Jurjani.
Hassan Raza Khan
20th-century Indian Poet
Abdul Hakim Sialkoti
Muslim scholar
Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini
15th century scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence
Ahmad Karima
Egyptian professor
Hızır Bey
ottoman Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and poet
Wang Daiyu
Chinese scholar
Akmal al-Din al-Babarti
14th century Islamic Scholar and Jurist
Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi
12th c. Sunni Hanafi theologian
Murat Yusuf
Romanian imam
Muhammad Abu Khubzah
Moroccan Imam (1932–2020)
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ramlī
muslim writer
Al-Bazdawi
'''Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Bazdawi () (c. 1010-1089 A.D.), known with the honorific title of Fakhr al-Islam' (the pride of Islam), was a leading Hanafi scholar in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence. He is author of the acclaimed Kanz al-Wusul ila Ma'refat al-Usul (), popularly known as Usul al-Bazdawi'', a seminal work in Hanafi Usul al-Fiqh.
Ahmad al-Muhajir
Muslim scholar and teacher during the Islamic Golden Age
Abd Allah al-Qaysi
Muslim jurist and theologian
Fazlul Haque Amini
Bangladeshi politician
Muhammad Ali Ba'alawi
Founder of the Ba'alawi sufi order
Maulana Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni
Pakistani Islamic scholar (1898–1970)
Ibn ʻUlayyah
muhaddith
Muhammad al-'Arabi al-Tabbani
Algerian Sunni Muslim scholar
Jammat Ali Shah
Pakistani saint