List of Islamic studies scholars
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The entries in the list are accompanied by their date of birth, branch of Islam, country of birth, field of study, famous works and short description.
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Muslim scholars
Muslim scholars are either born in a Muslim families, or converted to Islam. For a list of scholars specialized in:- Islamic history, see list of Islamic historians
- Islamic philosophy, see list of Islamic philosophers
- Islamic jurisprudence, see list of Islamic Jurists
- Abu Bakr Alsideek , Arab, Sunni ,first Caliphafter the prophet
- Omer Bin Khattab , Arab, Sunni ,Second Caliphafter the prophet
- Ali - 599, Arab, Sunni Caliph, and claimed Shia Imam
- Ibn Abbas - 619, Arab
- Abdullah ibn Masoud
- Zayd ibn Thabit
- Othman Bin Affan , Arab, Sunni ,third Caliphafter the prophet
- Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man - 699
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 780, Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Malik ibn Anas - 715, Al-Muwatta
- Abu 'Abd Allah ash-Shafi'i - 767
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma'eel al-Bukhari - 810, Sunni, Persian, Hadith, Sahih Bukhari Most trusted hadith collector in Sunni Islam
- Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj - 810, Sahih Muslim
- Abu Dawud - 817, Sunan Abu Dawud, Persian
- Al-Tirmidhi - 824, Jami at-Tirmidhi
- at-Tabarani - al-Mu'jam al-Kabeer
- ibn Jarir at-Tabari - 838, Sunni, Persian, multiple fields, Tarikh al-Tabari/Tafsir al-Tabari
- Al-Ghazali - (1058-1111)Persias theologian and philosopher
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Persia
- Al-Nawawi - (1233-1278) Sharh Sahih Muslim, Riyadh as-Saaliheen, 40 Hadith Nawawi
- ash-Shawkani
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Muhaddith author of al-Fath al-Baari and Bulugh al-Maram
- Al-Nasa'i - Hadith collection
- Ibn Majah - Sunan ibn Majah
- Shaykh al-Islam Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah
- Al-Qurtubi - Tafsir al-Qurtubi
- Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah - Za'ad al-Ma'ad
- al-Haafidh ibn Kathir - Tafsir ibn Kathir
- Al-Tahawi - Aqeedah at-Tahawiyyah
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
- al-Hafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
- Al-Dhahabi - Talkhis al-Mustadrak
- Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi - al-Mughni
- Hassan al-Basri
- Abd ar-Rahman ibn Naasir as-Saa'di
- Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi -1857 -1911, India, Author of Awn-ul-Mabood Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood
- Hakim al-Nishaburi - 1014, Persian, Mustadrak al-Hakim
- Al-Mawardi - 1058, Arab
- Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami - 1106
- Averroes - 1126, Sunni Maliki, Spain, multiple fields, The Incoherence of the Incoherence
- Ali ibn al-Athir - 1160, The Complete History
- Abul Fida Ismail Ibn Hamwi, 1273, Sunni Shafii (?), Syria, multiple fields, Tarikh Abul Fida
- Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami - 13??, ''Majma al-Zawa'id
- Ibn Khalladun - 1332, Historian
- M. A. Muqtedar Khan - 1966, Political Philosopher and Western Muslim Intellectual
- Muhammad Abduh - 1849, Egypt, -Peak of Eloquence with comments
- as-Suyuti - 1471, History of the Caliphs
- Abdulhakim Arvasi - 1867
- Badiuzzaman Said Nursi - 1877, Kurdish Turkish Islamic Scholar
- Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi - 801, Arab, multiple fields
- Shibli Nomani - 1857, Sirat un Nabi
- Amin Ahsan Islahi - Modern Qur'anic exegete of India/Pakistan
- Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi - 1903, India, philosophy, Jamaat-e-Islami
- Hassan al Banna - 1906
- Fazlur Rahman - 1919
- Ismail Al-Faruqi - 1921, Sunni, Palestina, philosopher
- Imam Ahmed Rida Khan- Mujaddid and Islamic Scholar
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi - 1926
- Al-Sheik Abdulmajeed Al-Zindini (Jammat Al-Iman In Yemen)
- Fethullah Gulen - 1938, Turkish, Islamic Scholar
- Abdullah Yusuf Azzam - 1941
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid - 1943, considered a heretic by some
- Khurshid Ahmad
- Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami - Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah
- Ibn Hazm - Andalusian philosopher
- Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad Ibn Abd al Wahhab
- al-Muhadith Muhammad Nassir ad-Deen Al-Albani
- Shaykh Abd al-Azeez ibn Baaz - a one-time Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
- Muhammad ibn Saalih ibn al-Uthaymeen
- Muhammad Yusuf Khandlawi - Sunni
- Al-Juwayni - Fara'id al-Simtayn
- Rashid Rida
- Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Qutaybah
- Muhammad Rafi Usmani
- Muhammad Taqi Usmani
- Tawfique Chowdhury
- Dr. Israr Ahmed
- Huseyin Hilmi Isik (1911-2001) - Author of Seadet-i Ebediyye or the Endless Bliss
- Omar Khayyám - 1048, Persia
- Al-Khwarizmi - 800?, Persia
- Jafar Sadiq - 702, Arab, Shia Imam
- Muhammad Ya'qub Kulainy - 950, Sufficing fundaments (Usul al-Kafi)
- Sharif Razi - 970, Peak of Eloquence (Nahj al-Balagha)
- Suhrawardi - 1153, Persia, Philosophy, founder of School of Illumination
- Sheikh al-Mufid
- Saadi - 1184 Persian Poet
- Nasir al-Din Tusi - 1201, Shi'a, Persia, multiple fields, Zij-i ilkhani, one of the founders of Trigonometry.
- Mulla Sadra - 1571, Shi'a, Persia, philosophy, Transcendent Theosophy, the greatest philosopher Persia has ever produced
- Mir Damad - 16?? or 17??, Shia, Persia, philosophy, Taqwim al-Iman, founder of the Isfahan School
- Allama Majlesi, 1689, Shia twelver, Iran, Oceans of Light (Bihar ul Anwar)
- Avicenna - 980, Persian, physicians, The Book of Healing, "the father of modern medicine"
- Grand Ayatollah al-Shirazi - 1892, Shia twelver, Iran
- Allameh Tabatabaei - 1892, Shia twelver, Iran, multiple fields, Tafsir al-Mizan
- Ruhollah Khomeini - 1900, Shia twelver, Iran, the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 1933, Shia twelver, Iran, philosophy, Shi'a Islam (Book)
- Morteza Motahhari - 1979 Iran
- Husain Mohammad Jafri - Shia, Pakistan, The Origins and Early Development of Shi`a Islam
- Ahmad ibn A'tham
- Ali al-Sistani - Shia twelver, Iran-Iraq
- Ahmad Reda
- Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i - Shia
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim
- Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
- Nizam al-Mulk - Siyasatnama Ex-Sunni
- Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi
- Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani - Shahr Usul al-Kafi
- Mulla Sadra
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Muhammad al-Tijani - ''And then i was Guided, Ex-Sunni
- Hamid Dabashi - ''
- Ali Khamenei
- Reza Aslan - Shia?
- Ali Shariati
- Haji Karim Khan of Kirman [link]
- Siyyid Kázim Rashtí
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim
- Mohammad Khatami.
- Attar, Persia
- Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persia
- Junayd Baghdadi
- Bayazid Bastami, Persia
- Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persia
- Abdul Qadir Jilani - Sunni Hanbali
- Najmeddin Kubra, Persia
- Muhammad Ilyas - 1885
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - 1207, Persia
- Al-Sakhawi, (831— 902)
- Nasreddin - 10?? -13??, Persia
- Saadi - Persia
- Al-Farabi - 870, Persian, multiple fields, Kitab al-Musiqa, one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of his time
- Jami - 1414, Persian, multiple fields, Diwanha-i Sehganeh, the greatest Persian poet in the 15th century
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
- Justice Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari - 1918-1998, Bhera, Pakistan
- Shaykh Muhammad Amin al-Hasanat Shah al-Qurashi
- Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada
- Wasil ibn Ata - 700, founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought (Arab theology)
- Ibn Abu al-Hadid -Peak of Eloquence with comments
- Zamakhshari - 1074, Persian
- Masudi
- Al-Jahiz - 776, Arab
- Al-Jubba'i - 9??, Persian
Unclassified
Scholars that converted to Islam
- Jeffrey Lang
- Hamza Yusuf
- Marmaduke Pickthall -1875, England, The meaning of the Holy Qur'an '''
- Michael Wolfe
- Malcolm X
- Nuh Keller
- Timothy Winter
- Bilal Philips
- Yusuf Estes
- Ali Ibrahim Kalyanaraman
- Zaid Shakir - American
- Thomas McElwain
- Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) - Former Christian Missionary who embraced Islam
- Abdul Ahad Davud
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss born in July 1900 in the city of Lviv, now in Ukraine, died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam.
Controversial
This is a list of scholars of present and past that are not recognized as Muslims by the mainstream but profess to be Muslims as part of groups and small sects that deviate from the mainstream.
Non-Muslims
- Jafar Sadiq - 702, Arab, Shia Imam
- Muhammad Ya'qub Kulainy - 950, Sufficing fundaments (Usul al-Kafi)
- Sharif Razi - 970, Peak of Eloquence (Nahj al-Balagha)
- Suhrawardi - 1153, Persia, Philosophy, founder of School of Illumination
- Sheikh al-Mufid
- Saadi - 1184 Persian Poet
- Nasir al-Din Tusi - 1201, Shi'a, Persia, multiple fields, Zij-i ilkhani, one of the founders of Trigonometry.
- Mulla Sadra - 1571, Shi'a, Persia, philosophy, Transcendent Theosophy, the greatest philosopher Persia has ever produced
- Mir Damad - 16?? or 17??, Shia, Persia, philosophy, Taqwim al-Iman, founder of the Isfahan School
- Allama Majlesi, 1689, Shia twelver, Iran, Oceans of Light (Bihar ul Anwar)
- Avicenna - 980, Persian, physicians, The Book of Healing, "the father of modern medicine"
- Grand Ayatollah al-Shirazi - 1892, Shia twelver, Iran
- Allameh Tabatabaei - 1892, Shia twelver, Iran, multiple fields, Tafsir al-Mizan
- Ruhollah Khomeini - 1900, Shia twelver, Iran, the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr - 1933, Shia twelver, Iran, philosophy, Shi'a Islam (Book)
- Morteza Motahhari - 1979 Iran
- Husain Mohammad Jafri - Shia, Pakistan, The Origins and Early Development of Shi`a Islam
- Ahmad ibn A'tham
- Ali al-Sistani - Shia twelver, Iran-Iraq
- Ahmad Reda
- Shaykh Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i - Shia
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim
- Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim
- Nizam al-Mulk - Siyasatnama Ex-Sunni
- Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi
- Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani - Shahr Usul al-Kafi
- Mulla Sadra
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Muhammad al-Tijani - ''And then i was Guided, Ex-Sunni
- Hamid Dabashi - ''
- Ali Khamenei
- Reza Aslan - Shia?
- Ali Shariati
- Haji Karim Khan of Kirman [link]
- Siyyid Kázim Rashtí
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim
- Mohammad Khatami.
- Attar, Persia
- Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persia
- Junayd Baghdadi
- Bayazid Bastami, Persia
- Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persia
- Abdul Qadir Jilani - Sunni Hanbali
- Najmeddin Kubra, Persia
- Muhammad Ilyas - 1885
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi - 1207, Persia
- Al-Sakhawi, (831— 902)
- Nasreddin - 10?? -13??, Persia
- Saadi - Persia
- Al-Farabi - 870, Persian, multiple fields, Kitab al-Musiqa, one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of his time
- Jami - 1414, Persian, multiple fields, Diwanha-i Sehganeh, the greatest Persian poet in the 15th century
- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
- Justice Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari - 1918-1998, Bhera, Pakistan
- Shaykh Muhammad Amin al-Hasanat Shah al-Qurashi
- Shaykh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada
- Wasil ibn Ata - 700, founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought (Arab theology)
- Ibn Abu al-Hadid -Peak of Eloquence with comments
- Zamakhshari - 1074, Persian
- Masudi
- Al-Jahiz - 776, Arab
- Al-Jubba'i - 9??, Persian
Unclassified
Scholars that converted to Islam
- Jeffrey Lang
- Hamza Yusuf
- Marmaduke Pickthall -1875, England, The meaning of the Holy Qur'an '''
- Michael Wolfe
- Malcolm X
- Nuh Keller
- Timothy Winter
- Bilal Philips
- Yusuf Estes
- Ali Ibrahim Kalyanaraman
- Zaid Shakir - American
- Thomas McElwain
- Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) - Former Christian Missionary who embraced Islam
- Abdul Ahad Davud
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss born in July 1900 in the city of Lviv, now in Ukraine, died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam.
Controversial
This is a list of scholars of present and past that are not recognized as Muslims by the mainstream but profess to be Muslims as part of groups and small sects that deviate from the mainstream.
Non-Muslims
- Wasil ibn Ata - 700, founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought (Arab theology)
- Ibn Abu al-Hadid -Peak of Eloquence with comments
- Zamakhshari - 1074, Persian
- Masudi
- Al-Jahiz - 776, Arab
- Al-Jubba'i - 9??, Persian
Unclassified
Scholars that converted to Islam
- Jeffrey Lang
- Hamza Yusuf
- Marmaduke Pickthall -1875, England, The meaning of the Holy Qur'an '''
- Michael Wolfe
- Malcolm X
- Nuh Keller
- Timothy Winter
- Bilal Philips
- Yusuf Estes
- Ali Ibrahim Kalyanaraman
- Zaid Shakir - American
- Thomas McElwain
- Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) - Former Christian Missionary who embraced Islam
- Abdul Ahad Davud
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss born in July 1900 in the city of Lviv, now in Ukraine, died 1992) was a Jew who converted to Islam.
Controversial
This is a list of scholars of present and past that are not recognized as Muslims by the mainstream but profess to be Muslims as part of groups and small sects that deviate from the mainstream.Non-Muslims
- George Sale - 1697
- Charles Mills - 1788, England
- William Muir - 1819, England
- Ignaz Goldziher - 1850, Hungarian
- David Samuel Margoliouth - 1858, England, Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
- Henri Lammens - 1862, French, ''
- Philip Khuri Hitti - 1886, Lebanon
- Maxime Rodinson - 1915, French
- Leone Caetani - 1869, Italian, ''Annali dell' Islam
- Wilferd Madelung - 1930, Germany, The Succession to Muhammad, Shia point of view
- Karen Armstrong - 1944, England,
- Christoph Marcinkowski, - 1964 (Shiite Islam, Iraq, Safavids, Islam and Persian cultural influence in Southeast Asia)
- William Chittick - United States, Shia point of view
- Geraldine de Gaury - Rulers of Mecca
- Betty Kelen - Muhammad, The Messenger of God
- Francis E. Peters - Muhammad and the Origins of Islam
- William Montgomery Watt
- Báb - proclaimed prophethood, started a new religion and stated he abrogated Islam
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad - Claimed he was the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi prophesied in the Bible and Quran.
- Elijah Muhammad - ''Started the Nation of Islam movement and proclaimed prophethood
- Rashad Khalifa - proclaimed himself to be the Messenger of the Covenant of 3:81
- Fred M. Donner
- Alfred Guillaume
- Arthur John Arberry
- Ehsan Yarshater (Bahá'í, with Iranian-Jewish family background)
See also
- Ulema - Community of legal scholars
- Permanent Committee of Scholars for Research and Fataawa
- Mullah
- List of Da'ees
- Western Muslims
- List of converts to Islam
- List of people by belief
- Early Islamic philosophy
- List of Iranian scientists
- Islamic philosophy
- List of Muslim warriors
- List of Marjas
- List of Ayatollahs
- List of Muslim scholars
External links
- http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/History/Personalities/Personalities.htm
- [Women Scholars of Islam: They Must Bloom Again] by Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq
- [Women Scholars of Hadith]
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