List of Islamic studies scholars
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- See also: List of Muslim scholars
Islamic studies scholars or simply Islamic scholars are both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars who work in one or more fields of Islamic studies. "Islamic studies" an umbrella term for all Islam-related studies, related to both Islamization of knowledge and an extrinsic study of Islam, Islamic culture, history and society.
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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[edit] 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, first Sunni Caliph after the prophet
- Omar Bin Khattab, second sunni Caliph after the prophet
- Othman Bin Affan, third sunni Caliph after the prophet
- Ali - 599, fourth Caliph, and first Shia Imam
- Ibn Abbas - 619, Arab
- Abdullah ibn Masoud - d. 652
- Zayd ibn Thabit - pre-610
[edit] Sunni Muslim
- 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) Persian theologian and philosopher
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, (1149–1209) Persia
- Al-Nawawi - (1233-1278) Sharh Sahih Muslim, Riyadh as-Saaliheen, 40 Hadith Nawawi
- ash-Shawkani
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - (1372-1449) Muhaddith author of al-Fath al-Baari and Bulugh al-Maram
- Al-Nasa'i - 829 Hadith collection
- Ibn Majah - 824 Persia Sunan ibn Majah
- Al-Qurtubi - d. 1273 Tafsir al-Qurtubi
- Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah - (1292-1350) Za'ad al-Ma'ad
- al-Haafidh ibn Kathir - (1301-1373) Tafsir ibn Kathir
- Al-Tahawi - (853-933) Egypt Aqeedah at-Tahawiyyah
- Sibt ibn al-Jawzi - d. 1257
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi - (1001 - 1072)
- al-Hafidh ibn Rajab al-Hanbali - (1335-1392) Damascus
- Al-Dhahabi - (1274-1348) Talkhis al-Mustadrak
- Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi - (1147-1223) al-Mughni
- Hassan al-Basri - (642 - 728 or 737)
- Abd ar-Rahman ibn Naasir as-Saa'di - (1889-1956)
- 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 Khaldun - 1332, Historian
- M. A. Muqtedar Khan - 1966 Political Philosopher and Western Muslim Intellectual
- 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
- Ismail Al-Faruqi - 1921, Sunni, Palestina, philosopher
- Ahmed Rida Khan- 1856
- Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy - (1911-1998)
- Yusuf al-Qaradawi - 1926
- Imam Iskender Ali MIHR - 1933-Current
- 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 - 1932
- Syed Abdullah Shah Naqshbandi - 1872-1964 Sunni Muhaddith of Deccan India
- Ibn Hajar Al-Haythami - 909 AH Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah
- Ibn Hazm - (994 – 1064) Andalusian philosopher
- al-Muhadith Muhammad Nassir ad-Deen Al-Albani - (1914-1999)
- Muhammad Yusuf Khandlawi - (1917 – 1965) India Sunni
- Al-Juwayni - Fara'id al-Simtayn
- Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri[1] (1951) Author of 300 books including Urdu translation of Quran [2]
- Rashid Rida - (1865-1935) Syrian
- Ibn Hisham - (d. 834)
- Ibn Qutaybah - (828-889)
- Muhammad Rafi Usmani
- Muhammad Taqi Usmani
- Tawfique Chowdhury
- Anwar Al Awlaki , Yemen
- Huseyin Hilmi Isik (1911-2001) - Author of Seadet-i Ebediyye or the Endless Bliss
- Omar Khayyám - 1048, Persia
- Al-Khwarizmi - 800?, Persia
- Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997) - Author of Tadabbur-i-Qur’an
- Nizam al-Mulk - (1018 – 1092) Persian Siyasatnama
- Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin al-Nabhani
[edit] Shi'a Muslim
- See also: List of Ayatollahs
- See also: List of Grand Ayatollahs
Twelwers known the sayings and behaviour of Prophet, Fatima and 12 Imam as the main source of Islamic knowledge.
- Ali ibn Abu Talib- 7th century- cousin and son-in law of the Prophet Muhammed(may Allah bless him and give him peace), first shia imam -completely versed in the Quraan by the age of 9-10 and extensively knowledgable in the natural sciences, composer of shia narration- the peak of eloquence
- al-Husayn ibn 'Ali third Shi'i Imam and famed martyr at Karbala
- Muhammad al Baqir
- Jafar Sadiq - 702, Arab, Shia Imam
- Musa al Kazim- shia Imam-a religious scholar descendant of the Prophet Muhammed
- Ali ar Rida- grandson of the Prophet Muhammed, religious scholar
- ibn al-Haitham - (965-1040) a twelver shia-"father of optics"- established the study of the Human eye and refraction if light through lenses
- Muhammad Ya'qub Kulainy - 950, Sufficing fundaments (Usul al-Kafi)
- Mohammad ibn Ali (ibn-e Babuyeh) or (Shaikh Saduq) 927/928 - (306 -381 A.H.)
- al-Sharif al-Radi - 970, compiler of the Peak of Eloquence (Nahj al-Balagha)
- al-Sharif al-Murtada
- al-Shaykh al-Mufid
- 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 or ibn Sina - 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
- Allamah Rasheed Turabi 1908 - 1973
- 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)]]
- Musa al-Sadr - Abducted in 1978
- 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
- Grand Ayatollah Borujerdi
- Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani - Shahr Usul al-Kafi
- Mulla Sadra - Persia
- Mughatil ibn Bakri
- Muhammad al-Tijani
- Hamid Dabashi - Expectation of the Millennium: Shi'ism in History
- Ali Khamenei
- Ali Shariati
- Haji Karim Khan of Kirman [3]
- Siyyid Kázim Rashtí
- Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim
- Mohammad Khatami
- Mahmoud Khatami
- Professor Abdul Hakeem
Prof.Waheed Akhtar: (1934-1996)
[edit] Sufi
- 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 Imdad Hussain Pirzada
- Shaykh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi England
- Hazrat Mujadid Abdul Wahab Siddiqi(1942-1994)England
[edit] Mutazilite
- Wasil ibn Ata - 700, founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought (Arab theology)
- Abd al-Jabbar of Baghdad and Rayy ,325 AH/935 CE - 415 AH/1025 CE
- Abu’l Husayn al-Basri died 478 AH/1085 CE, disciple then opponent of al-Jabbar, set out qualifications for a muslim scholar
- Ibn Abu al-Hadid -Peak of Eloquence with comments
- Zamakhshari - 1074, Persian
- Masudi
- Al-Jahiz - 776, Arab
- Al-Jubba'i - 9??, Persian
[edit] Denomination Unknown
- Mohammad Ibn Abd-al-Haq Ibn Sab’in, Spain
- A. E. Souaiaia , University of Iowa , USA
- Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistan
- Javed Ahmed Ghamidi (1951—) - Author of Mizan
[edit] Scholars that converted to Islam
- Jeffrey Lang
- Hamza Yusuf
- Sherman Jackson
- Yahya Michot
- Marmaduke Pickthall -1875, England, The meaning of the Holy Qur'an
- Michael Wolfe
- Nuh Keller
- Fritjof Schuon
- 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.
- Martin Lings
[edit] 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.
- Ibn al-Rawandi - 8??
- Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh
- Asra Q. Nomani
- Elijah Muhammad
- Rashad Khalifa - proclaimed himself to be the Messenger of the Covenant of 3:81
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1835-1908 - proclaimed to be the Promised Reformer (Mahdi) and the Messiah
[edit] Orientalists/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, Islam: Beliefs and Institutions
- 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, Muhammad: a Biography of the Prophet
- William Chittick - United States, Sufi 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
- Elijah Muhammad - Started the Nation of Islam movement and proclaimed prophethood
- Fred M. Donner
- Alfred Guillaume
- Arthur John Arberry
- Ehsan Yarshater (Bahá'í, with Iranian-Jewish family background)
- Dr. Ian K. A. Howard
- John L. Esposito - 1940, Editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World
- Louis Massignon (1883–1962), French scholar of Islam
- Margaret Smith, author of Rabi'a the Mystic and her Fellow-Saints in Islam, 1928
- Malika Zeghal, author and professor of the anthropology and sociology of Islam
[edit] 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