Sunni Sufis

Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, was a Kurdish commander and political leader. He was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty and the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant. At the height of his power, the Ayyubid realm spanned Egypt, Syria, Upper Mesopotamia, the Hejaz, Yemen, and Nubia.

Al-Ghazali, ( ( – 19 December 1111), Latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Iranian scholar and polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis, philosophers, theologians, logicians and mystics in Islamic history.

seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)

Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. Under his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent, with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent.

Iraqi sufi and poet

Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and jurist (1078–1166)

Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi (1844-1885)

Arab Muslim scholar, theologian, preacher and judge (c.642–728)

Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960)

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.

Sufi saint

Persian Islamic mystic and Sufi saint (830–910)

Indian muslim scholar

Philosopher (1564-1624)

ascetic Sufi saint

Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)

Military general and politician (1760-1794)

islamic hadith Scholar and jurist (726–797)

American Islamic scholar (born 1958)

Syrian Sunni Muslim scholar (1929–2013)

Islamic Scholar, Shaykh of Instruction (1930–2021)

'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.

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 al-Hasan al-Shadhili () (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī) also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD) was an influential Moroccan Islamic scholar and Sufi, founder of the Shadhili Sufi order.

8th-century Islamic scholar

Persian Muslim scholar (c. 1145 – 1234)

Indian freedom struggle leader and scholar

13th-century Moroccan founder of Badawiyyah Sufi order

Indian Muslim scholar (1863–1943)

Algerian Sufi

Egyptian imam

The Spiritual founder of the Ottoman Empire. Father of Rabia Bala Malhun Hatun, the wife of Osman Ghazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire and grandfather of Vizier Alaeddin Pasha, Second Ottoman Sultan Orhan Ghazi and 6 other grandchildren.

Persian Islamic scholar (948–1038)

6th-century founder of Rifa'i Sufi Order

Muslim scholar

Persian writer, theologian

Sufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist

16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar

Al-Muḥāsibī () (781–857 CE) was a Muslim Arab, theologian, philosopher and ascetic. He is considered to be the founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy which combined Kalam and Sufism, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sirri Saqti.

Akshamsaddin (Muhammad Shams al-Din bin Hamzah, ) (1389 in Damascus – 16 February 1459 in Göynük, Bolu), was an influential Ottoman Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, and mystic saint.

Baghdadi Sufi Muslim saint (c.750/60–c.815/20)

revered saints of Islam in Indonesia

mystic

Egyptian founder of Desouki Sufi Order (1255–1296)

Islamic missionary

Islamic studies scholar

9th-century Baghdadi Sufi Muslim saint

Iraqi Sufi mystic and poet (1779–1827)

Persian Sufi scholar (861–946)

Islamic theologian and historian

Indian Islamic scholar (1746–1824)

Muslim Sufi saint and mystic

Indian Sufi saint

Sufi scholar

seven historical Muslim figures buried in Marrakesh, Morocco

Persian mathematician and astronomer

prominent Sunni Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia

Muslim scholar, Indian freedom fighter, famous from the book "Izhar ul-Haq" and founder of "Madrasa Saulatiya"

Oblique scholar

Muslim activist