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Part of the series on
Muslim scholars
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| First famous scholars |
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Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man - 699
Jafar Sadiq - 702, Shia Imam
Malik ibn Anas - 715
Abu 'Abd Allah ash-Shafi'i - 767
Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 780
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| Early scholars |
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Imam Bukhari - 810, Hadith compiler
Imam Muslim - 821, Hadith compiler
Abu Dawud - 817, Hadith compiler
At-Tabari - 838, Historian
Al-Nasa'i - Hadith compiler
Ibn Maja - 824, Hadith compiler
Al-Tirmidhi - 824, Hadith compiler
at-Tahawi - 853
Al-Barbahaaree - 940
Ibn Hazm - 994, Andalusian philosopher
Al-Ghazali - 1058, Persian theologian, and philosopher
Abdul-Qadir Gilani - 1077
Ibn al-Jawzi
Al-Qurtubi
Ibn Qudamah - 1147
Ibn Athir - 1160
An-Nawawi - 1234
Ibn Taymiyyah - 1263, famous Sunni scholar
Ibn al-Qayyim - 1292
Ibn Kathir - 1301, famous author of tafsir
Ibn Khaldun - 1332, Historian
Ibn Rajab - 1335
Suyuti - 1445
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| Later scholars |
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Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab - 1703, Sunni scholar
Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i - 1826, Shia scholar
Imam Ahmad Raza Khan1856-1920 Sunni,founder of Barelwi Movement
Yusuf an-Nabhani - 1849, Sunni scholar, influential in Sufism
Ilyas Attar Qadri-founder of Worldwide Dawat-e-Islami Movement
Muhammad Ilyas - 1885, founder of Tablighi Jamaat
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| Recent scholars |
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Ruhollah Khomeini - 1900, Shia scholar, leader of Iranian Revolution
Bin Baaz - 1910, former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
al-Albanee - 1914, Hadith scholar
Ahmed Deedat - 1918, Comparative religionist
Ibn 'Uthaymeen - 1925, Sunni scholar
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam‎ - 1941, Sunni scholar
Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee - Sunni scholar
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| Modern scholars |
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi - 1926, Sunni scholar
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - 1930, Shia scholar
Muhammad Taqi Usmani - 1943, Sunni scholar
Yusuf Estes - 1944, former Christian
Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri - 1951, Sunni scholar
Zakir Naik - 1965, Comparative religionist
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