The list of Ash'aris and Maturidis includes prominent adherents of the

Ash'ari Ashʿarī theology or Ashʿarism (; ar, الأشعرية: ) is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Muslim scholar, Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer, and scholastic theologian Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in the ...

and

Maturidi Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic th ...

schools of thought. The Ash'aris are a doctrinal school of thought named after Imam

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī (; full name: ''Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Ashʿarī''; c. 874–936 CE/260–324 AH), often reverently referred to as Imām al-Ashʿarī by Sunnī Muslims, was an Arab Muslim scholar ...

, and the Maturidi school is named for

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī al-Samarḳandī ( fa, أبو منصور محمد بن محمد بن محمود الماتریدي السمرقندي الحنفي; 853–944 CE), often referred t ...

. These two schools are essentially one. However, they differ in terms of about forty matters. These differences, however, consist only matters of detail. Both Imam al-Ash'ari and Imam al-Maturidi were

Sunni Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...

Muslims who lived during the time of the first three centuries after the time of the Prophetic

revelation In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity or other supernatural entity or entities. Background Inspiration – such as that bestowed by God on the ...

. In Sunni Islam it is understood that the earliest scholars held the most weight with terms to encapsulating the religion as was intended by the Islamic prophet

Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

. Both of them defended and upheld the transmitted beliefs of the

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing. ...

and

Sunnah In Islam, , also spelled ( ar, سنة), are the traditions and practices of the Islamic prophet Muhammad that constitute a model for Muslims to follow. The sunnah is what all the Muslims of Muhammad's time evidently saw and followed and passed ...

, as understood by mainstream

Sunni Islam Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagre ...

in each generation before them, from the extremes of excessive literalism. Their teachings and methodology were accepted as the standard of mainstream Sunni Islam by clear general consensus of the scholarly community in their own times and in every generation since. The

Malikis The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary s ...

and

Shafi'is The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

, on the whole, became Ash'aris in theology, while majority of the

Hanafis The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...

became Maturidis (who in many respects are similar to Ash'aris).

Ash'aris

Ash'aris are those who adhere to Imam

in his school of theology.

Ibn 'Abd al-Salam Abū Muḥammad ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd al-Salām bin Abī al-Qāsim bin Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Shāfiʿī ( ar, أبو محمد عز الدين عبد العزيز بن عبد السلام بن أبي القاسم بن حسن ا ...

said: "Agreement has formed in subscribing to al-Ash'ari's doctrine among the

, the

, and the nobility of the

Hanbalis The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ( ...

." His statement was endorsed in his time by the Maliki authority Abu 'Amr ibn al-Hajib and by the Shaykh of the Hanafis Jamal al-Din al-Hasiri. The Maliki imam Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Musa al-Mayurqi said: "The Ahl al-Sunna among the Malikis, the Shafi'is, and the majority of the Hanafis speak with the tongue of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and argue by his arguments."

Taj al-Din al-Subki Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (), or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī ()or simply Ibn al-Subki was a leading Islamic scholar, a faqīh, a muḥaddith and a historian from the celebrated al-Subkī family ...

quoted it and went on to say: "We do not know any Malikis except they are Ash'aris." There are some rare exceptions, such as

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar al-Namarī al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī, commonly known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr ( ar, ابن عبد البر)

and Abu 'Umar al-Talamnaki. As for

Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani Ibn Abī Zayd () (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.Herbert J ...

(310-386), he belonged to the Ash'ari school which he took, among others, from Abu Bakr ibn 'Abd al-Mu'min the student of Ibn Mujahid the student of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari.

Al-Qadi 'Iyad ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) ( ar, القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī ...

mentioned that in the year 368 Ibn Abi Zayd sent two of his students to deliver some of his books by hand to Ibn Mujahid who had requested them, with a full license to narrate them from him (

ijaza An ''ijazah'' ( ar, الإِجازَة, "permission", "authorization", "license"; plural: ''ijazahs'' or ''ijazat'') is a license authorizing its holder to transmit a certain text or subject, which is issued by someone already possessing such au ...

). Ibn Abi Zayd notably defended the Ash'ari school in his epistle entitled "Al-Radd 'ala al-Qadariyya wa Munaqadat Risalet al-Baghdadi al-Mu'tazili," a refutation of the attacks of the Mu'tazili 'Ali ibn Isma'il al-Baghdadi. Al-Mayurqi further narrated that Ibn Abi Zayd said: "Al-Ash'ari is a man famous for refuting the people of Innovation, the

Qadariyya Qadariyyah ( ar, قدرية, Qadariyya), also Qadarites or Kadarites, from (), meaning "power"); was originally a derogatory term designating early Islamic theologians who rejected the concept of predestination in Islam, ''qadr'', and asserted t ...

and the Jahmiyya, and he held fast to the Sunan."

Ibn 'Asakir Ibn Asakir ( ar-at, ابن عساكر, Ibn ‘Asākir; 1105–c. 1176) was a Syrian Sunni Islamic scholar, who was one of the most renowned experts on Hadith and Islamic history in the medieval era. and a disciple of the Sufi mystic Abu al-Najib S ...

in his " Tabyin Kadhib al-Muftari fima Nusiba ila al-Imam Abi al-Hasan al-Ash'ari" ( ar, تبيين كذب المفتري فيما نسب إلى الإمام أبي الحسن الأشعري, lit=The Exposition of the Fabricator's Lies in What He Attributed to al-Ash'ari), and

in his "Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra" ( ar, طبقات الشافعية الكبرى, lit=Comprehensive Biographical dictionary of Shafi'ites) listed the most illustrious figures of the Ash'ari scholars, starting with the biographical layer of al-Ash'ari himself.

Malikis The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary s ...

(d. 386 AH) *

Al-Baqillani Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī ( ar, أبو بكر محمد بن الطيب الباقلاني; c. 950 - 5 June 1013), often known as al-Bāqillānī for short, or reverentially as Imām al-Bāqillānī by adherents to the ...

(d. 403 AH) *

Abu Imran al-Fasi Abu Imran Musa ibn Isa ibn abi hajj (or hajjaj) al-Fasi () (also simply known as Abu Imran al-Fasi; born between 975 and 978, died 8 June 1039) was a Moroccan Maliki ''faqīh'' born at Fez to a Berber or Arab family whose ''nisba'' is impossible t ...

(d. 430 AH) *

Ibn Sidah Abū’l-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ismāʻīl (), known as Ibn Sīdah (), or Ibn Sīdah'l-Mursī (), (c.1007-1066), was a linguist, philologist and lexicographer of Classical Arabic from Andalusia. He compiled the encyclopedia ' ()(Book of Customs) and ...

(d. 458 AH) * Abu al-Walid al-Baji (d. 474 AH) *

Abu Bakr al-Turtushi 'Abu Bakr Muhammad at-Turtushi () (1059 – 1126 CE; 451 AH – 520 AH ), better known as At-Turtushi was one of the most prominent Andalusian political philosophers of the twelfth century. His book Kitāb Sirāj al-Mulūk (The Lamp of Kings) ...

(d. 520 AH) *

Al-Maziri Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Omar ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi al-Maziri () (1061 – 1141 CE) (453 AH – 536 AH ), simply known as Al-Maziri or as Imam al-Maziri and Imam al-Mazari, was an important Arab Muslim jurist in the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic ...

(d. 536 AH) *

Ibn Barrajan Abū al-Ḥakam ʿAbd al-Salām b. ʿAbd al Raḥmān b. Abī al-Rijāl Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Lakhmī al-Ifrīqī al-Ishbīlī (Arabic: عبد السلام بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن برجان اللخمي) (bor ...

(d. 536 AH) *

Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi or, in full Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-ʿArabī al-Maʿāfirī al-Ishbīlī ( ar, أبو بكر محمّد ابن عبدالله ابن العربى المعافرى الأسفلى) born in Sevilla in 1076 ...

(d. 543 AH) * Al-Qadi 'Ayyad (d. 544 AH) * Al-Suhayli (d. 581 AH) * Ibn al-Qattan (d. 628 AH) *

Ibn Malik Abu 'Abd Allah Jamal al-Din Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh ibn Malik al-Ta'i al-Jayyani ( ar, ابو عبدالله جمال الدين محمد بن عبدالله بن محمد بن عبدالله بن مالك الطائي الجياني النحو ...

(d. 672 AH) *

Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī () (also known as simply known a ...

(d. 684 AH) *

Ibn Daqiq al-'Id Ibn Daqiq al-'Id (; 1228–1302), born in Yanbu into the Arab tribe of Banu Qushayr. He is accounted as one of Islam's great scholars in the fundamentals of Islamic law and belief, and was an authority in the Shafi'i legal school. Although Ibn ...

(d. 702 AH) * Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Iskandari (d. 709 AH) *

Ibn Adjurrum Ibn Ājurrūm ( ar, إبن أَجُرُوم; Berber: Ageṛṛom or Agerrum) and his full name: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Ṣanhādjī ( ar, أبو عبد اللہ محمد بن داوود الصنهاجي). (1273� ...

(d. 723 AH) * Ibn al-Hajj al-'Abdari (d. 737 AH) *

Ibn Juzayy Abu al-Qasim, Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah, Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati () was an Andalusian Maliki-Ash'ari scholar and poet of Arab origin. Works He wrote many religious works such as his ''al-Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah'' or "T ...

(d. 741 AH) *

Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi (died ), also known as ''Sidi'' Khalil, was an Egyptian jurisprudent in Maliki Islamic law who taught in Medina and Cairo. His Mukhtasar, known as the "''Mukhtasar'' of Khalil", is considered an epitome of shariah law ac ...

(d. 776 AH) *

Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Shāṭibī (720 – 790 A.H./1320 – 1388 C.E.) was an Andalusí Sunni Islamic legal scholar following the Maliki madhab.Dr. Ahmad Raysuni, ''Imam Shatibi's Theory of the Higher Objectives and Intents ...

(d. 790 AH) * Ibn 'Arafa (d. 803 AH) *

Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...

(d. 808 AH) *

Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi Abdul-Rahman al-Tha'alibi ( ar, أبو زيد عـبـد الـرحـمـن بن مـخـلـوف الـثـعـالـبـي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Makhlūf ath-Tha‘ālibī) (1384 CE/785 AH – 1479 CE/875 AH), was an Arab Schol ...

(d. 876 AH) * Ahmad Zarruq (d. 899 AH) *

Ahmad al-Wansharisi Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Wansharisi ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى الونشريسي, full name: Abu ’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʿAlī al-Wans̲h̲arīsī or simply known as al-Wansharisi, b. 1430 or 1431 ...

(d. 914 AH) * Al-Akhdari (d. 953 AH) * Al-Hattab (d. 954 AH) *

Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti Aḥmad Bābā al-Timbuktī (), full name Abū al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad Aqit al-Takrūrī Al-Massufi al-Timbuktī (1556 – 1627 CE, 963 – 1036 H), was a Sanhaja Berbers, Berber writer, scholar, an ...

(d. 1036 AH) * Al-Maqqari al-Tilimsani (d. 1041 AH) * Ibrahim al-Laqani (d. 1041 AH) *

Muhammad Mayyara Abu Abd Allah Mahamad ibn Ahmad Mayyara (; 1591–1662) was a jurist and theologian from Fes, one of the most reputable scholars of his time. He is the author of a commentary on the ''Tuhfa'' by Ibn Asim, a commentary on ''Al-Musrhid al mumin'' ...

(d. 1072 AH) * Ibn 'Ashir (d. 1090 AH) * Al-Hasan al-Yusi (d. 1102 AH) *

Muhammad al-Zurqani Muhammad al-Zurqani (1645–1710 CE ) ( ar, محمد الزرقاني) was a Sunni Maliki Islamic scholar. Name His full name was Imam Abu-Abd-Allah "Ibn Fujlah" Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Azhari al- Zurqānī al-Maliki. Biography ...

(d. 1122 AH) *

Ahmad al-Dardir Ahmed ibn Ahmed ibn abi-Hamid al'Adawi al-Maliki al-Azhari al-Khalwati ad-Dardir (1715 – 1786 CE) ( AH 1127 – 1204 AH ) known as Imam ad-Dardir or Dardir was a prominent late jurist in the Maliki school from Egypt. His ''Sharh as-Saghir'' an ...

(d. 1201 AH) *

Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAjība al-Ḥasanī (; 1747–1809) was an influential 18th-century Moroccan scholar and poet in the Darqawa Sufi Sunni Islamic lineage. Biography He was born of a sharif family in the Anjra tribe that ranges fro ...

(d. 1224 AH) *

Ahmad al-Tijani Ahmad ( ar, أحمد, ʾAḥmad) is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other spellings of the name include Ahmed and Ahmet. Etymology The word derives from the root (ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from the ve ...

(d. 1230 AH) * Muhammad Arafa al-Desouki (d. 1230 AH) * Muhammad al-'Arabi al-Darqawi (d. 1239 AH) * Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Sanusi (d. 1276 AH) * Muhammad 'Ilish (d. 1299 AH) *

Ahmad al-Ghumari Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco. Career Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith ...

(d. 1380 AH) * Muhammad al-Tahir ibn 'Ashur (d. 1393 AH) *

Abdel-Halim Mahmoud Abdel-Halim Mahmoud ( ar, الإمام الأكبر عبدالحليم محمود) (12 May 1910 – 17 October 1978; 2 Jumaada al-awal 1328 A.H. - 14 The al-Qi`dah 1398 A.H.) served as Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1973 until his death in 1978. C ...

(d. 1397 AH) * 'Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413 AH) *

Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi ( ar, محمد متولي الشعراوي) (April 15, 1911 – June 17, 1998) was an Islamic scholar, former Egyptian minister of Endowments and Maliki jurist. He has been called one of Egypt's most popular and suc ...

(d. 1419 AH) * Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki (d. 1425 AH) *

Ahmad al-Tayyeb Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb ( ar, أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب) (born 6 January 1946) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, Al-Azhar Al Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appo ...

Ahmad Karima Dr. Ahmad Mahmoud Karima ( ar, أحمد محمود كريمة), professor of Islamic law and comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, is best known for his religious moderation and condemnations of radicalism, and for his intense criti ...

Hamza Yusuf Hamza Yusuf (born: Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching meth ...

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi ( ar, محمد أبو الهدى اليعقوبي; born 7 May 1963) is a Syrian Islamic scholar and religious leader. He has opposed both Bashar al-Assad and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Early life and background Al-Y ...

* Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari

Shafi'is The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

Ibn Hibban Muḥammad ibn Hibbān al-Bustī () (c. 270–354/884–965) was a Muslim Arab scholar, Muhaddith, historian and author of well-known works, “Sheikh of Khorasan”. Biography Ibn Hibban was born in 270 AH (884 CE) in Bust or Bost in present-da ...

(d. 354 AH) * Ibn Khafif (d. 371 AH) * Al-Khattabi (d. 388 AH) *

Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri ( fa, أبو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالله الحاكم النيسابوري; 933 - 1014 CE), also known as ''Ibn al-Bayyiʿ'', was a Persian Sunni scholar and the leadin ...

(d. 405 AH) *

Ibn Furak Ibn Furak or Ibn Faurak ( ar, ابن فورك; c. 941–c. 1015 CE / 330–406 AH) was a Muslim Imam, a theologian of Ash'arite school, a specialist of Arabic language, grammar and poetry, an orator, a jurist, and a hadith scholar from the ...

(d. 406 AH) * Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini (d. 418 AH) *

Al-Tha'labi Al-Tha''ʿ''labi (''Abū Isḥāḳ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nīsābūrī al-Thaʿlabī'' ; died November 1035) was an eleventh-century Islamic scholar of Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically ...

(d. 427 AH) *

Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (; full name: ''Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī'' (or ''al-Asfahānī'') ''al-Ahwal al-Ash`arī al-Shāfi`ī'', died 1038 CE / AH 430) was a medieval Persian Sh ...

(d.430 AH) * Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH) * Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 463 AH) *

Al-Qushayri 'Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawazin Abū al-Qāsim Banu Qushayr, al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī ( fa, , ar, عبد الكريم بن هوازن بن عبد الملك بن طلحة أبو القاسم القشيري; 986 – 30 December 1072) was an Ara ...

(d. 465 AH) *

Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani Abū Bakr, ‘Abd al-Qāhir ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī (10091078 or 1081 AD 00 – 471 or 474 A.H.; nicknamed "Al-Naḥawī" (the grammarian), he was a renowned Persian grammarian of the Arabic language, literary theor ...

(d. 471 AH) * Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (d. 476 AH) *

Al-Juwayni Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī ( fa, امام الحرمین ضیاءالدین عبدالملک ابن یوسف جوینی شافعی, 17 February 102820 August 1085; 419–478 AH) was a Persian Sunni Shafi'i j ...

(d. 478 AH) *

Al-Raghib al-Isfahani Abul-Qasim al-Hussein bin Mufaddal bin Muhammad, better known as Raghib aaghibIsfahani ( fa, ابوالقاسم حسین ابن محمّد الراغب الاصفهانی), was an eleventh-century Muslim scholar of Qur'anic exegesis and the A ...

(d. 502 AH) *

Al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian polymat ...

(d. 505 AH) *

Al-Shahrastani Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fath Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm ash-Shahrastānī ( ar, تاج الدين أبو الفتح محمد بن عبد الكريم الشهرستاني; 1086–1153 CE), also known as Muhammad al-Shahrastānī, was an influenti ...

(d. 548 AH) *

(d. 571 AH) * Ahmad al-Rifa'i (d. 578 AH) * Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 606 AH) *

Ibn al-Salah Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd il-Raḥmān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shahrazūrī () (c. 1181 CE/577 AH – 1245/643), commonly known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist and the author of the seminal '' Intro ...

(d. 643 AH) * Ibn al-Najjar (d. 643 AH) *

Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam Abū Muḥammad ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd al-Salām bin Abī al-Qāsim bin Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Shāfiʿī ( ar, أبو محمد عز الدين عبد العزيز بن عبد السلام بن أبي القاسم بن حسن ا ...

(d. 660 AH) *

Al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

(d. 676 AH) *

Al-Baydawi Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d. June 1319, Tabriz) was a Persian jurist, theologian, and Quran commentator. He lived during the post-Seljuk and early Mongol era. Many commenta ...

(d. 685 AH) *

(d. 702 AH) * Safi al-Din al-Hindi (d. 715 AH) * Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri (d. 728 AH) *

Taqi al-Din al-Subki Abu Al-Hasan Taqī al-Dīn Ali ibn Abd al-Kafi ibn Ali al-Khazraji al-Ansari al-Subkī ( ar, أبو الحسن تقي الدين علي بن عبد الكافي بن علي الخزرجي الأنصاري السبكي), was a leading polymath a ...

(d. 756 AH) *

Al-Safadi Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī, or Salah al-Dīn al-Ṣafadī; full name - Salah al-Dīn Abū al-Ṣafa Khalīl ibn Aybak ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Albakī al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363); he was a Turkic Mamluk author and historian. ...

(d. 764 AH) *

(d. 771 AH) * Shams al-Din al-Kirmani (d. 786 AH) *

Al-Zarkashi Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields ...

(d. 794 AH) * Siraj al-Din al-Mulaqqin (d. 804 AH) *

Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi Al-Hafiz Zain al-Din 'Abd al-Rahim al-'Iraqi ( ar, أبو الفضل زين الدين عبد الرحيم العراقي, 1403-1325) was a renowned Kurdish Shafi'i scholar and was the foremost leading hadith scholar at his time. Biography He i ...

(d. 806 AH) *

Nur al-Din al-Haythami Nur al-Din `Ali ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Hasan al-Haythami (735AH 1335 CE– 807AH 1404 CE) was a Sunni Shafi`i Islamic scholar from Cairo, whose father had a shop on a desert road. He was born in the month of Rajab in 735 H. corres ...

(d. 807 AH) * Ibn al-Jazari (d. 833 AH) *

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī or ''Ibn Ḥajar'' ( ar, ابن حجر العسقلاني, full name: ''Shihābud-Dīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Nūrud-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī al-Kināni'') (18 February 1372 – 2 Febru ...

(d. 852 AH) *

Al-Sakhawi Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī ( ar, شمس الدين محمد بن عبدالرحمن السخاوي, 1428/831 AH – 1497/902 AH) was a reputable Shafi‘i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cair ...

(d. 902 AH) * Al-Suyuti (d. 911 AH) *

Nur al-Din al-Samhudi Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi ( ar, علي بن أحمد السمهودي) was a Mamluk Shafi'i Islamic scholar. He is known to be the last person to enter and clean the Inner Chamber of the prophet Muhammad's grav ...

(d. 911 AH) *

Jalal al-Din al-Dawani Jalal al-Din Davani ( fa, جلال الدین دوانی; 1426/7 – 1502), also known as Allama Davani (), was a theologian, philosopher, jurist, and poet, who is considered to have been one of the leading scholars in late 15th-century Iran. A na ...

(d. 918 AH) *

Al-Qastallani Shihāb al-Dīn Abu'l-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī al-Qutaybī al-Shāfi‘ī ( ar, أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي بكر ابن عبد الملك بن أحمد بن حسين بن علي القسطلاني ...

(d. 923 AH) *

Zakariyya al-Ansari Zakariyyā al-Ansārī was a leading Sunni Muslim polymath ʿĀlim of the 15th century. Biography Birth He was born in or around 1420 CE, in Sunaika, located in the Egyptian province of Sharqiyya. Education During his adolescence, al- Ans� ...

(d. 926 AH) * Al-Sha'rani (d. 973 AH) *

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī al-Anṣārī known as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Makki ( ar, ابن حجر الهيتمي المكي) was an Egyptian Arab muhaddith and theologi ...

(d. 974 AH) *

Al-Khatib al-Shirbini al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy (, died 1570 C.E.) was a Shafi'i scholar from Egypt, who wrote many works on exegesis, fiqh, the Arabic language, and other Islamic disciplines. He was initially living in the Dakahlia Governorate, his birthplace, bef ...

(d. 977 AH) *

Al-Munawi Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munawi (also Al-Manawi) ( ar, محمد عبد الرؤوف المناوي), was an Ottoman Egypt, Ottoman period Islamic scholar of Cairo, known for his works on the early history of Islam and the history of Sufism in Egypt ...

(d. 1031 AH) * 'Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad (d. 1132 AH) *

Hasan al-Attar Shaykh Hasan al-Attar ( ar, حسن العطار) (1766–1835) was an Islamic scholar, Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1830 to 1835. A "polymathic figure", he wrote on grammar, science, logic, medicine and history. Hassan al-Attar was appointed Sheikh o ...

(d. 1230 AH) *

Ahmad Zayni Dahlan Ahmad Zayni Dahlan ( ar, أحمد زَيْني دَحْلان) (1816–1886) was the Grand Mufti of the Shafi'i madhab in Mecca, and Shaykh al-Islam (highest religious authority in the Ottoman jurisdiction) in the Hijaz region of the Ottoman st ...

(d. 1304 AH) * Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (d. 1379 AH) * Ahmad Kaftaru (d. 1425 AH) * Noah al-Qudah (d. 1432 AH) * 'Abdallah al-Harari (d. 1432 AH) *

Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti Mohammed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti ( ar, مُحَّمَد سَعِيد رَمَضَان ٱلْبُوطِي, Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī) (1929 - 21 March 2013) was a notable Sunni Muslim scholar who was also known as "Shaykh of the ...

(d. 1434 AH) *

Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun ( ar, أَحْمَد بَدْرُ ٱلدِّين حَسُّون, ʾAḥmad Badr ad-Dīn Ḥassūn; born 25 April 1949) was the Grand Mufti of Syria from 2005 to 2021, after which the post was abolished. Biography Ahmad Ba ...

Ali Gomaa Ali Gomaa ( ar, علي جمعة, Egyptian Arabic: ) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar, Jurist, and public figure who has taken a number of controversial political stances. He specializes in Islamic Legal Theory. He follows the Shafi`i school of ...

Ali al-Jifri Habib Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri ( ar, الحبيب علي زين العابدين الجفري; born 16 April 1971) is a Yemeni-born Sunni and Sufi Islamic scholar and spiritual educator located in the United Arab Emirates. He is the founder ...

Umar bin Hafiz Habib Umar bin Hafiz ( ar-at, عمر بن حفيظ, Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin Ḥafīẓ; ; born 27 May 1963) is a Yemeni Sunni and Sufi Islamic scholar, teacher, and founder and dean of Dar al-Mustafa Islamic seminary. He also a member of the Supr ...

* Gibril Fouad Haddad *

Nuh Ha Mim Keller Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an American Islamic scholar, teacher and author who lives in Amman. He is a translator of a number of Islamic books. Life and scholarship Keller studied philosophy and Arabic at the University of Chicago and th ...

Sa'id Foudah Sa'id 'Abd al-Latif Foudah ( ar, سعيد عبد اللطيف فودة) is a Shafi'i-Ash'ari academic working in Islamic theology (kalam), logic, legal theory (usul al-fiqh), and a prolific polemicist best known for his criticism of Ibn Arabi and ...

Hanbalis The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ( ...

* Ibn 'Aqil (d. 508 AH) *

Ibn al-Jawzi ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abu 'l-Faras̲h̲ b. al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي, ''Ibn al-Jawzī''; ca. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, or reverentially as ''Imam Ibn al-Jawzī'' by ...

(d. 534 AH) * Al-Bahuti (d. 537 AH)

Zahiris The Ẓāhirī ( ar, ظاهري, otherwise transliterated as ''Dhāhirī'') ''madhhab'' or al-Ẓāhirīyyah ( ar, الظاهرية) is a Sunnī school of Islamic jurisprudence founded by Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī in the 9th century CE. It is chara ...

Ibn Tumart Abu Abd Allah Amghar Ibn Tumart (Berber: ''Amghar ibn Tumert'', ar, أبو عبد الله امغار ابن تومرت, ca. 1080–1130 or 1128) was a Muslim Berber religious scholar, teacher and political leader, from the Sous in southern Mor ...

(d. 524 AH) * Ibn Mada' (d. 592 AH) * Abu Hayyan al-Andalusi (d. 745 AH)

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

Some of the Hanafis follow the Ash'ari school of thought, such as: *

Al-Taftazani Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani ( fa, سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی) also known as Al-Taftazani and Taftazani (1322–1390) was a Muslim Persian po ...

(d. 792 AH) *

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

(d. 1176 AH)

Ash'ari leaders

Nizam al-Mulk Abu Ali Hasan ibn Ali Tusi (April 10, 1018 – October 14, 1092), better known by his honorific title of Nizam al-Mulk ( fa, , , Order of the Realm) was a Persian scholar, jurist, political philosopher and Vizier of the Seljuk Empire. Rising fro ...

(d. 485 AH) *

Yusuf ibn Tashfin Yusuf ibn Tashfin, also Tashafin, Teshufin, ( ar, يوسف بن تاشفين ناصر الدين بن تالاكاكين الصنهاجي , Yūsuf ibn Tāshfīn Naṣr al-Dīn ibn Tālākakīn al-Ṣanhājī ; reigned c. 1061 – 1106) was l ...

(d. 500 AH) * 'Abd al-Mu'min ibn 'Ali (d. 558 AH) *

Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...

(d. 589 AH) * Abu Bakr ibn Ayyub (d. 615 AH) *

Al-Kamil Al-Kamil ( ar, الكامل) (full name: al-Malik al-Kamil Naser ad-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Muhammad) (c. 1177 – 6 March 1238) was a Muslim ruler and the fourth Ayyubid sultan of Egypt. During his tenure as sultan, the Ayyubids defeated the Fifth Cr ...

(d. 635 AH) * Al-Ashraf Musa (d. 635 AH) *

Qutuz Saif ad-Din Qutuz ( ar, سيف الدين قطز; died 24 October 1260), also romanization of Arabic, romanized as Kutuz or Kotuz and fully al-Malik al-Muẓaffar Sayf ad-Dīn Quṭuz (), was a military leader and the third or fourth of t ...

(d. 658 AH) * Al-Nasir ibn Qalawun (d. 741 AH) *

Emir Abdelkader al-Jazairi Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine (6 September 1808 – 26 May 1883; ar, عبد القادر ابن محي الدين '), known as the Emir Abdelkader or Abdelkader El Hassani El Djazairi, was an Algerian religious and military leader who led a struggl ...

(d. 1300 AH) *

Omar al-Mukhtar Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī ( ar, عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي ; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among ...

(d. 1350 AH) * Ibn Abdelkarim al-Khattabi (d. 1382 AH) * Al-Muwahhidun *

Ayyubid dynasty The Ayyubid dynasty ( ar, الأيوبيون '; ) was the founding dynasty of the medieval Sultan of Egypt, Sultanate of Egypt established by Saladin in 1171, following his abolition of the Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt. A Sunni ...

Maturidis

, who was a leading theologian and jurist of his time in

Transoxiana Transoxiana or Transoxania (Land beyond the Oxus) is the Latin name for a region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to modern-day eastern Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, parts of southern Kazakhstan, parts of Tu ...

(Ma Wara' al-Nahr) in

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...

, was the founder of the

Maturidiyya Māturīdī theology or Māturīdism ( ar, الماتريدية: ''al-Māturīdiyyah'') is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Persian Muslim scholar, Ḥanafī jurist, reformer (''Mujaddid''), and scholastic ...

theological school. This was one of the two principal

schools of

kalam ''ʿIlm al-Kalām'' ( ar, عِلْم الكَلام, literally "science of discourse"), usually foreshortened to ''Kalām'' and sometimes called "Islamic scholastic theology" or "speculative theology", is the philosophical study of Islamic doc ...

, or

Islamic theology Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding ''ʿaqīdah'' (creed). The main schools of Islamic Theology include the Qadariyah, Falasifa, Jahmiyya, Murji'ah, Muʿtazila, Bati ...

. Unlike

Ash'arism Ashʿarī theology or Ashʿarism (; ar, الأشعرية: ) is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Muslim scholar, Shāfiʿī jurist, reformer, and scholastic theologian Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in th ...

, Maturidite theology has generally remained associated exclusively with only one Sunni madhhab, that of

Abu Hanifa Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( ar, نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان; –767), commonly known by his '' kunya'' Abū Ḥanīfa ( ar, أبو حنيفة), or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Mus ...

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

* Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 342 AH) *

Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi, in full, Abu Bakr ibn Abi Ishaq Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub al-Bukhari al-Kalabadhi (fl. late 10th century, Bukhara) was a Persian Hanafi Maturidi Sufi scholar and the author of the ''Kitab at-ta'arruf'', one of the mos ...

(d. 379 AH) *

Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (Arabic أبو الليث السمرقندي, Abū l-Laiṯ as-Samarqandī; b. 944; d. 983) was a Hanafite jurist and Quran commentator, who lived during the second half of the 10th century. He authored various books on ...

(d. 375 AH) * Abu Zayd al-Dabusi (d. 429 AH) *

Ali Hujwiri Abu 'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri, or Hajvery) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh Syed ʿAlī al- ...

(d. 464 AH) *

Yūsuf Balasaguni Yusuf Khass Hajib; kk, Жүсіп Баласағұни, Jüsip Balasağunï; ug, يۈسۈپ خاس ھاجىپ; ky, Жусуп Баласагын, Jusup Balasagın; uz, Yusuf Xos Hojib was an 11th-century Central Asian Turkic poet, statesman ...

(d. 469 AH) *

Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi ( ar, أبو الْيُسر الْبَزْدَوي) (c.1030-c.1100), who was given the honorific title of ''Sadr al-Islam'', was a prominent Central Asian Hanafi-Maturidi scholar and a qadi (judge) in Samarqand in the late e ...

(d. 493 AH) *

Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi ( uz, Абул-Муин ан-Насафи; ar, أبو المعين النسفي), was considered to be the most important Central Asian Hanafi theologian in the Maturidite school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur ...

(d. 508 AH) *

Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari ( ar, أبو إسحاق الصفّار البخاري), was an important representative of the Sunni theological school of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. c. 333/944) and the author of '' Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al- ...

(d. 534 AH) *

Yusuf Hamadani Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf al-Hamadānī, best simply known as Yusuf Hamadani (born 1048 or 1049 / 440 AH - died 1140 / 535 AH), was a Persian figure of the Middle Ages. He was the first of the group of Central Asian Sufi teachers known simply as '' ...

(d. 535 AH) *

Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami Ahmad Ibn Abolhasan Jāmi-e Nāmaghi-e Torshizi ( fa, احمد ابن ابوالحسن جامی نامقی ترشیزی) (born Namagh (now Kashmar), Persia, 1048 – died Torbat-e Jam, 1141) better known as Sheikh Ahhmad-e Jami or Sheikh Ahma ...

(d. 536 AH) *

Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi Najm ad-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ 'Umar ibn Muḥammad an-Nasafī ( ar, نجم الدين أبو حفص عمر بن محمد النسفي‎; 1067–1142) was a Muslim jurist, theologian, mufassir, muhaddith and historian. A Persian scholar born in pr ...

(d. 537 AH) *

Ahmad Yasawi Ahmad Yasawi ( kk, Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; fa, خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a pow ...

(d. 561 AH) *

Siraj al-Din al-Ushi Siraj al-Din 'Ali b. 'Uthman al-Ushi al-Farghani ( ar, سراج الدين علي بن عثمان الأوشي الفرغاني) was a Hanafi jurist, Maturidi theologian, hadith expert (muhaddith), Chief Judge or Supreme Judge (Qadi al-Qudah o ...

(d. 575 AH) * Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 580 AH) * Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 581 AH) * Al-Kasani (d. 587 AH) * Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 593 AH) * Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi (d. beginning of the sixth century AH) * Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Al-Mu'azzam 'Isa (d. 624 AH) * Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (d. 632 AH) * Mu'in al-Din Chishti (d. 633 AH) * Saif ed-Din al-Boharsi (d. 659 AH) * Fariduddin Ganjshakar (d. 664 AH) * Rumi (d. 671 AH) * Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (d. after 690 AH) * Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 710 AH) * Sultan Walad (d. 711 AH) * Nizamuddin Auliya (d. 725 AH) * Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 747 AH) * Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786 AH) * Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 791 AH) * Kadi Burhan al-Din (d. 800 AH) * Al-Sharif al-Jurjani (d. 816 AH) * Bande Nawaz (d. 825 AH) * Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 834 AH) * 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 841 AH) * Yaqub al-Charkhi (d. 851 AH) * Ahmad ibn Arabshah (d. 861 AH) * Badr al-Din al-'Ayni (d. 855 AH) * Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (d. 861 AH) * Khidr Bey (d. 863 AH) * Ali al-Bistami (d. 874 AH) * Ali Qushji, 'Ali al-Qushji (d. 879 AH) * Khwaja Ahrar (d. 895 AH) * Ali-Shir Nava'i (d. 906 AH) * Husayn Kashifi (d. 910 AH) * Ibn Kemal (d. 940 AH) * Abdul Quddus Gangohi (d. 943 AH) * Ibrahim al-Halabi (d. 955 AH) * Taşköprüzade (d. 968 AH) * Muhammad Birgivi (d. 980 AH) * Ebussuud Efendi (d. 982 AH) * Khwaja Baqi Billah (d. 1011 AH) * 'Ali al-Qari (d. 1014 AH) * Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari (d. 1025 AH) * Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034 AH) * Mahmud Hudayi (d. 1037 AH) * 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1052 AH) * Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (d. 1061 AH) * 'Abd al-Hakim al-Siyalkoti (d. 1067 AH) * Wang Daiyu (d. around 1068 AH) * Kâtip Çelebi (d. 1068 AH) * Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji (d. 1069 AH) * Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1081 AH) * Ma Zhu (d. around 1123 AH) * Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (d. 1127 AH) * Shah Abdur Rahim (d. 1131 AH) * Liu Zhi of Nanjing (d. 1158 AH, or 1178 AH) * Nizamuddin Sihalivi (d. 1161 AH) * Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (d. 1174 AH) * 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1176 AH) * İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (d. 1193 AH) * Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (d. 1195 AH) * Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi (d. 1204 AH) * Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205 AH) * Qadi Thanaullah Panipati (d. 1225 AH) * Ghabdennasir Qursawi (d. 1226 AH) * Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (d. 1239 AH) * Shah Abdul Aziz (d. 1239 AH) * Syed Ahmad Barelvi (d. 1246 AH) * Ibn 'Abidin (d. 1252 AH) * Muhammad 'Abid al-Sindi (d. 1257 AH) * Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (d. 1267 AH) * Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (d. 1278 AH) * Yusuf Ma Dexin (d. 1291 AH) * Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (d. 1297 AH) * Naqi Ali Khan (d. 1297 AH) * 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298 AH) * 'Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1304 AH) * Shihab al-Din al-Marjani (d. 1306 AH) * Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi (d. 1308 AH) * Giritli Sırrı Pasha (d. 1312 AH) * Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (d. 1312 AH) * Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (d. 1317 AH) * Abai Qunanbaiuly (d. 1321 AH) * Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (d. 1322 AH) * Ahmad Hasan Amrohi (d. 1330 AH) * Muhammad Anwaarullah Farooqui (d. 1335 AH) * Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (d. 1338 AH) * Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (d. 1340 AH) * Shakarim Qudayberdiuli (d. 1344 AH) * Muhammad Ali Mungeri (d. 1346 AH) * Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (d. 1346 AH) * Anwar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1352 AH) * Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i (d. 1354 AH) * Fatma Aliye Topuz (d. 1354 AH) * Meher Ali Shah (d. 1356 AH) * Muhammed Hamdi Yazır (d. 1361 AH) * Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1361 AH) * Ubaidullah Sindhi (d. 1364 AH) * Amjad Ali Aazmi (d. 1367 AH) * Jamaat Ali Shah (d. 1951 CE) * Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi (d. 1367 AH) * Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (d. 1368 AH) * Musa Bigiev (d. 1368 AH) * Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (d. 1371 AH) * Kifayatullah Dehlawi (d. 1371 AH) * Mustafa Sabri (d. 1373 AH) * Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan (d. 1378 AH) * Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi (d. 1390 AH) * Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni (d. 1390 AH) * Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen (d. 1391 AH) * Muhammad Abu Zahra (d. 1394 AH) * Abdul Majid Daryabadi (d. 1397 AH) * Muhammad Shafi' Deobandi (d. 1395 AH) * Abul Wafa Al Afghani (d. 1395 AH) * Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (d. 1402 AH) * Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi (d. 1403 AH) * Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi (d. 1412 AH) * Ayub Ali, Muhammad Ayyub Ali (d. 1415 AH) * Anzar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1428 AH) * Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (d. 1418 AH) * Ahmed Deedat, Ahmad Deedat (d. 1426 AH) * Wahbah al-Zuhayli (d. 1436 AH) * Muhammad Salim Qasmi (d. 1439 AH) * Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (d. 1441 AH) * Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali * Shah Ahmad Shafi (1920 – 2020) * Abdur Rahman Chatgami * Muhammad Rafi' Usmani * Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri * Muhammad Taqi Usmani * Junaid Babunagari * A F M Khalid Hossain (born 1959) * Sultan Zauq Nadvi * Husein Kavazović * Salah Mezhiev * Amer Jamil Shafiʽi school, Shafi'is * Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy

Maturidi leaders

* Seljuq dynasty * Ottoman dynasty * Timurid dynasty * Mughal dynasty * Alp Arslan (d. 465 AH) * Nur ad-Din (died 1174), Nur al-Din Zengi (d. 569 AH) * Al-Mu'azzam Isa, Al-Mu'azzam 'Isa (d. 624 AH) * Mehmed the Conqueror (d. 886 AH) * Aurangzeb (d. 1118 AH) * List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman sultans

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The Ash'aris & Maturidis: Standards of Mainstream Sunni Beliefs

Differences between the Ash'aris & Maturidis
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Malikis The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary s ...

Shafi'is The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

Hanbalis The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ( ...

Zahiris The Ẓāhirī ( ar, ظاهري, otherwise transliterated as ''Dhāhirī'') ''madhhab'' or al-Ẓāhirīyyah ( ar, الظاهرية) is a Sunnī school of Islamic jurisprudence founded by Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī in the 9th century CE. It is chara ...

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

Ash'ari leaders

Maturidis

Maturidi leaders

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