Sunni Sufis

Oblique scholar

prominent Sunni Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia

Afghan Islamic philosopher and scholar (died 1605/06)

Ottoman scholar

Arab Moroccan Sufi imam, from arabian tribe jazulah

'''Abu 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami al-Shafi'i (), commonly known as al-Sulami''' (947-1034), was a Shafi'i muhaddith (Hadith Master), muffassir (Qur'anic commentator), shaykh of the Awliya, Sufi hagiographer, and a prolific writer. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He was of very high status."

8th-century Iraqi Islamic scholar and sufi

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.

American scholar and translator

'''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

18th-century Islamic scholar

Sufi sheikh, preacher

Harari Islamic scholar

Ottoman Grand Mufti of Mecca (1816–1886)

Shafi'i Islamic scholar (1284–1355)

Khorasani sufi and Persian poet

Turkish poet

Grand Mufti of Syria (1915-2004)

Gökböri (13 April 115428 June 1233) or Muzaffar ad-Din Gökböri, was a leading emir and general of Sultan Saladin (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb), and ruler of Erbil. He served both the Zengid and Ayyubid rulers of Syria and Egypt. He played a pivotal role in Saladin's conquest of Northern Syria and the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) and later held major commands in a number of battles against the Crusader states and the forces of the Third Crusade. He was known as Manafaradin, a corruption of his principal praise name, to the Franks of the Crusader states.

Chinese Muslim scholar

Islamic scholar

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.

Muslim scholar

Russian Imam (1937–2012)

Russian scholar

Indonesian islamic scholar

Indian author

Chinese Islamic scholar

Senegalese sufi saint (1900-1975)

17th-century Ottoman Muslim scholar and mystic

14th-century Islamic scholar

Sufi Muslim

mufti of Dagestan, Russia (b. 1959)

10th-century Samarkand Sunni-Hanafi scholar, judge and sage

Grand Mufti of India (1882-1948)

an Islamic scholar, Sufi master, and anti-colonial figure from South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Moroccan Sufi saint

Indian Islamic scholar and sufi saint of Hindustan

Islamic scholar

'''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.

leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1787-1858)

Islamic scholar

Fakie, author, writer, Iraqi and modernist from Yemen

Indonesian Islamic scholar, Mufti of Kutai

islamic scholar/judge/poet/defender-Ottoman

Iranian sufi

Moroccan Sufi master

Egyptian Hanafi-Maturidi, polymath, legal theorist and jurist

Moroccan Shadhili Sufi, jurist and saint (1442–1493)

master of Sufism and Sufi literature

Indonesian politician

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.

Algerian theologian and sufi (1720–1793)

Founder Silsila saifia

Islamic scholar and theologian

Egyptian writer

Muslim scholar

Founder of the Ba'alawi sufi order

Sufi saint

Indian Islamic scholar