The following is a list of notable

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...

Scientists, mathematicians and academics

Ibn Sina Ibn Sina ( fa, ابن سینا; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic G ...

Avicenna Ibn Sina ( fa, ابن سینا; 980 – June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the Islamic G ...

- was a

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...

who is regarded as one of the most significant

physicians A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

, astronomers, philosophers, and writers of the

Islamic Golden Age The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign ...

, and the father of early modern medicine. *

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...

-inventor of Algebra and regarded as the father of Mathematics, was a Persian polymath from Khwarazm, who produced vastly influential works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. * Munib Maglajlić - Bosnian historian of literature *Melika Salihbegović - Bosnian writer and intellectual *

Ali ibn Ridwan Abu'l Hassan Ali ibn Ridwan Al-Misri () (c. 988 - c. 1061) was an Arab of Egyptian origin who was a physician, astrologer and astronomer, born in Giza. He was a commentator on ancient Greek medicine, and in particular on Galen; his commentary on ...

–

Egyptian Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...

Muslim physician,

astrologer Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Dif ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

, philosopher *

Al-ʻIjliyyah Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy ( ar, العجلية بنت العجلي ) was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. She is sometimes known in modern popular literature as Mariam al-Asṭurlābiyya ( ar ...

– 10th-century female maker of astrolabes * Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue') * Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani –

philosopher *

Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī ( fa, شرف‌الدین مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی; 1135 – 1213) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian Islamic mathematics, mathematician and Islamic as ...

–

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (also known as Sheikh Baha'i, fa, شیخ بهایی) (18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621) was an Iranian ArabEncyclopedia of Arabic Literature'. Taylor & Francis; 1998. . p. 85. Sh ...

– Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. *

Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi Al-Urdi (full name: Moayad Al-Din Al-Urdi Al-Amiri Al-Dimashqi) () (d. 1266) was a medieval Syrian Arab astronomer and geometer. Born circa 1200, presumably (from the nisba ''al‐ʿUrḍī'') in the village of ''ʿUrḍ'' in the Syrian desert b ...

– Arab Muslim

, architect and engineer * Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi Arab

Muslim historian :''This is a subarticle of Islamic scholars, List of Muslim scholars and List of historians.'' The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Tarikh, Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the ...

Iskandar Beg Munshi Iskandar Beg Munshi ( fa, اسکندربیگ منشی), a.k.a. Iskandar Beg Turkman () ( – c. 1632), was a Persian historian of Turkoman origin of the Safavid emperor Shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically ...

– court historian of the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

emperor

Shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

Abbas I *

Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi ( fa, میرزا مهدی خان استرآبادی), also known by his title of Monshi-ol-Mamalek (), was the chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist, friend and confidant of King Nader Shah Afshar ...

– chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist. *

Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā ( fa, ملا صدرا; ar, صدر المتألهین) (c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persian Twelver Shi'i Islamic mystic, philosopher, the ...

– philosopher, founder of

existentialism Existentialism ( ) is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on human thinking, feeling, and acting. Existentialist thinkers frequently explore issues related to the meaning, purpose, and valu ...

and transcendent theosophy * Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher *

Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah ( ar, حسن كامل الصباح; August 16, 1894March 31, 1935) was a Lebanese electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. He was born in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Biography He studied at the Ameri ...

– electrical and

electronics The field of electronics is a branch of physics and electrical engineering that deals with the emission, behaviour and effects of electrons using electronic devices. Electronics uses active devices to control electron flow by amplification ...

research engineer, mathematician and inventor. *

Rammal Rammal Rammal Hassan Rammal ( ar, رمال حسن رمال) (September 30, 1951 – May 31, 1991) was a Lebanese condensed matter physicist. He was born in Doueir, South Lebanon. He lived and went to school in Beirut. He was the top student in his cla ...

– Lebanese condensed matter physicist *

Allama Rasheed Turabi Raza Hussain also known as Allama Rasheed Turabi (1908–1973) was an Islamic scholar, religious leader, public speaker, poet and philosopher. He was born on 9th Jamadi-us-Sani 1326, 9 July 1908 in Hyderabad, India. He was the eldest s ...

–

Hyderabad, India Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the '' de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern In ...

later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher * Sadiq Kamani – Indian public & Motivational Speaker *

Kazem Behbehani Kazem Behbehani is a Kuwaiti immunology, immunologist and retired professor. He is known for his research on tropical diseases before he became International Health Advocate at WHO. Early life and education Behbehani was born in Kuwait City, stud ...

– Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on

tropical diseases Tropical diseases are diseases that are prevalent in or unique to tropical and subtropical regions. The diseases are less prevalent in temperate climates, due in part to the occurrence of a cold season, which controls the insect population by forci ...

before he became an international health advocate at WHO. * Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder of

fuzzy mathematics Fuzzy mathematics is the branch of mathematics including fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic that deals with partial inclusion of elements in a set on a spectrum, as opposed to simple binary "yes" or "no" (0 or 1) inclusion. It started in 1965 ...

and fuzzy set theory. *

Cumrun Vafa Cumrun Vafa ( fa, کامران وفا ; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian-American theoretical physicist and the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University. Early life and education Cumrun Vafa was born in Tehran ...

– Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough Prize *

Nima Arkani-Hamed Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian

– Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Princeton, winner of Breakthrough Prize * Ehsan Afshari – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

* Ali Javan – Iranian-American physicist and inventor *

Yasaman Farzan Yasaman Farzan ( fa, یاسمن فرزان was born 1977 in Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous cit ...

– Iranian theoretical physicist *

Saba Valadkhan Saba Valadkhan ( fa, صبا ولدخان) is an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2005, she was awarded the GE / ''Science'' Young Scienti ...

– Iranian biomedical researcher *

Fereydoon Family Fereydoon Family (born September 18, 1945) is a leading Persian physicist in the field of nanotechnology and solid-state physics. He is currently Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics and a member of the Emerson Center for Scientific Computati ...

– Iranian physicist *

Mahmoud Hessaby Mahmoud Hessabi (or Hessaby, fa, محمود حسابی, February 23, 1903 – September 3, 1992) was an Iranian nuclear physicist and senator. He was the Minister of Education of Pahlavi Iran in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadde ...

– Iranian physicist *

Iraj Malekpour Iraj Malekpour (ایرج ملکپور) is an born Amol Iranian university professor of space physics. He was famous in Iran for writing and preparing the annual calendar that was officially used in Iran until 2002. He holds an adjunct faculty posi ...

– Iranian physicist *

Mehran Kardar Mehran Kardar ( fa, مهران کاردار; August 1957) is an Iranian born physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute (USA). He received his ...

– theoretical physicist, MIT *

Omid Kordestani Omid R. Kordestani ( fa, امید کردستانی; born 1963) is an Iranian-American businessman who was the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020 and a board member of the company until October 2022. He was a Senior Vic ...

– senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Fields Operations, Google *

Ali Hajimiri Ali Hajimiri is an academic, entrepreneur, and inventor in various fields of engineering, including electrical engineering and biomedical engineering. He is the Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering at the California Ins ...

– Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices *

Payam Heydari Payam Heydari ( fa, پيام حيدرى) is an Iranian-American Professor who is noted for his contribution to the field of radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits. Education Heydari attended Sharif University of Technology in T ...

– electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California Irvine *

Ali Khademhosseini Ali Khademhosseini ( fa, علی خادم‌حسینی, born October 30, 1975, Tehran, Iran) is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute and former professor at the University of California-Los Angeles where he held a multi-departmental profes ...

– Iranian-American-Canadian biomedical engineer at Harvard * Babak Hassibi – electrical engineer, Caltech *

Caro Lucas Caro Lucas Ghukasian ( hy, Կարո Լուկաս Ղուկասեան); ( fa, کارو لوکاس قوکاسیان; September 4, 1949 – July 8, 2010) was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society ...

– Iranian Armenian scientist *

Ali Chamseddine Ali H. Chamseddine ( ar, علي شمس الدين, link=no, born 20 February 1953) is a Lebanese physicist known for his contributions to particle physics, general relativity and mathematical physics. , Chamseddine is a physics Professor at t ...

– Lebanese theoretical physicist *

Wissam S. al-Hashimi Dr. Wissam S. al-Hashimi was an Iraqi geologist born in Baghdad. He was Secretary General of the Union of Arab Geologists until his death in 2005. In 2001 he was elected president of the Geological Society of Iraq and was president of the Union of ...

– Iraqi geologist *

Husain Mohammad Jafri Syed Husain Mohammad Jafri was a Pakistani historian. He served as the chairman of the ''Pakistan Study Centre'', University of Karachi The University of Karachi ( sd, ; informally Karachi University, KU, or UoK) is a public research universi ...

– academician * Athar Ali – Pakistani system engineer and a rocket scientist *

Pervez Hoodbhoy Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy (Urdu: ;;born 11 July 1950) is a Pakistani nuclear physicist and activist who serves as a professor at the Forman Christian College and previously taught physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University. Hoodbhoy is also a promine ...

– nuclear physicist and activist * Agha Shahi – diplomat and technocrat *

Razi Abedi Razi Abedi is a Pakistani author, activist and scholar. Life He received an M.A. in English from University of the Punjab. In 1968, he went to England for higher studies and attained M.A. and Tripos from Cambridge University in 1969. He is pa ...

– literary figure, activist and scholar of Pakistan * Nayyar Ali Zaidi – Pakistani architect *

Kalbe Razi Naqvi Kalbe Razi Naqvi ( ur, قلب رضی نقوی; born 1944) is a British Pakistani-Norwegian physicist, who has been ordinarily resident in Norway since 1977, working as a professor of biophysics in the Norwegian University of Science and Technolo ...

– British Pakistani physicist *

Aziz Sancar Aziz Sancar (born 8September 1946) is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for t ...

– American scientist *

Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry ...

– American chemist

Historical political figures

Late Islamic history

* Syed Muhammad Mir Ali Naqvi – Chief Justice of the court of Akbar the Great, Mir Adal; served on the court, 1579–1581; governor of Sindh *

Hasan ibn Zayd Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismaʿīl ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Zayd ( ar, الحسن بن زيد بن محمد; died 6 January 884), also known as ''al-Dāʿī al-Kabīr'' ( ar, الداعي الكبير, "the Great/Elder Mis ...

– founder of the

Alavids Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (). In the 9th–14th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan, sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid dyna ...

dynasty * Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya – founder of the Zaidi imamate State *

Sayf al-Daula ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī ( ar, علي بن أبو الهيجاء عبد الله بن حمدان بن الحارث التغلبي, 22 June 916 – 9 February 967), more commonly known ...

– ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) *

Mu'izz al-Daula Ahmad ibn Buya (Persian: احمد بن بویه, died April 8, 967), after 945 better known by his ''laqab'' of Mu'izz al-Dawla ( ar, المعز الدولة البويهي, "Fortifier of the Dynasty"), was the first of the Buyid emirs of Iraq, ...

– ruler of the

Buyid dynasty The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Iranian dynasty of Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran from 934 to 1062. Coupl ...

(945–967) *

Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya, better known as Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i ( ar, ابو عبد الله الشيعي, Abū ʿAbd Allāh ash-Shi'ī), was an Isma'ili missionary ('' dāʿī'') active in Yemen and North Africa, mainly amon ...

– a ''

Da'i A da'i ( ar, داعي, dāʿī, inviter, caller, ) is generally someone who engages in Dawah, the act of inviting people to Islam. See also * Dawah * Da'i al-Mutlaq, "the absolute (unrestricted) missionary" (Arabic: الداعي المطلق) * ...

'' for the Isma'ilis in

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

and North Africa mainly among the Kutama

Berbers , image = File:Berber_flag.svg , caption = The Berber ethnic flag , population = 36 million , region1 = Morocco , pop1 = 14 million to 18 million , region2 = Algeria , pop2 ...

, whose teachings influenced the rise of the Fatimid dynasty *

Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh/ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn (), 873 – 4 March 934, better known by his regnal name al-Mahdi Billah, was the founder of the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate, the only major Shi'a caliphate in Islamic history, and the e ...

– founder of the

Fatimid dynasty The Fatimid dynasty () was an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty of Arab descent that ruled an extensive empire, the Fatimid Caliphate, between 909 and 1171 CE. Claiming descent from Fatima and Ali, they also held the Isma'ili imamate, claiming to be the right ...

Al-Muizz Lideenillah Abu Tamim Ma'ad al-Muizz li-Din Allah ( ar, ابو تميم معد المعزّ لدين الله, Abū Tamīm Maʿad al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, Glorifier of the Religion of God; 26 September 932 – 19 December 975) was the fourth Fatimid calip ...

– fourth Fatimid Caliph Founder of the city of

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

* Sitt al-Mulk – ruler of the

Fatimids The Fatimid Caliphate was an Isma'ilism, Ismaili Shia Islam, Shi'a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries AD. Spanning a large area of North Africa, it ranged from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the ea ...

(1021–1023); elder sister of Al-Hakim * Arwa al-Sulayhi – ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, of

Sharifa Fatima Sharifa Fatima (; d. during or after 1461; ''sharifa'' is an honorific, her proper name being Fatima bint al-Hassan) was a female Zaydi Sayyid chief in 15th century Yemen. She allegedly conquered Sa'dah and Najran. She was the granddaughter of Z ...

– Zaydi chief in 15th-century Yemen *

Salih ibn Mirdas Abu Ali Salih ibn Mirdas ( ar, ابو علي صالح بن مرداس, Abū ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ ibn Mirdās), also known by his ''laqab'' (honorific epithet) Asad al-Dawla ('Lion of the State'), was the founder of the Mirdasid dynasty and emir of ...

– founder of the

Mirdasids The Mirdasid dynasty ( ar, المرداسيون, al-Mirdāsiyyīn), also called the Banu Mirdas, was an Arab dynasty which ruled an Aleppo-based emirate in northern Syria and the western Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) more or less continuously fro ...

emirate * Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib – founder of the Uqaylid Dynasty * Tekuder – first Muslim

Khan Khan may refer to: *Khan (inn), from Persian, a caravanserai or resting-place for a travelling caravan *Khan (surname), including a list of people with the name *Khan (title), a royal title for a ruler in Mongol and Turkic languages and used by ...

Ilkhanate The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate ( fa, ایل خانان, ''Ilxānān''), known to the Mongols as ''Hülegü Ulus'' (, ''Qulug-un Ulus''), was a khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanid realm, ...

Ghazan Mahmud Ghazan (5 November 1271 – 11 May 1304) (, Ghazan Khan, sometimes archaically spelled as Casanus by the Westerners) was the seventh ruler of the Mongol Empire's Ilkhanate division in modern-day Iran from 1295 to 1304. He was the son of A ...

– ruler of the

dynasty (1295–1304) * Öljaitü – eighth

ruler *

Uzun Hassan Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan ( اوزون حسن; fa, اوزون حسن; 1423 – January 6, 1478; where ''uzun'' means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Ha ...

– ruler of the

Ak Koyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (Wh ...

dynasty (1453–1478) * Ismail I – founder of the

dynasty * Abbas I of Persia – ruler of the

dynasty (1588–1629) *

Karim Khan Mohammad Karim Khan Zand ( fa, محمدکریم خان زند, Mohammad Karīm Khân-e Zand; ) was the founder of the Zand Dynasty, ruling from 1751 to 1779. He ruled all of Iran (Name of Iran, Persia) except for Khorasan Province, Khorasan. He ...

– founder of the Zand dynasty

Poets

–

Muslim physician,

, philosopher *

philosopher *

–

– Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. *

– Arab Muslim

, architect and engineer * Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi Arab

– court historian of the

emperor

Abbas I *

– chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist. *

– philosopher, founder of

and transcendent theosophy * Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher *

– electrical and

research engineer, mathematician and inventor. *

– Lebanese condensed matter physicist *

–

later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher *

– Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on

before he became an international health advocate at WHO. * Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder of

and fuzzy set theory. *

– Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough Prize *

Nima Arkani-Hamed Nima Arkani-Hamed ( fa, نیما ارکانی حامد; born April 5, 1972) is an American-Canadian

– Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Princeton, winner of Breakthrough Prize * Ali Javan – Iranian-American physicist and inventor *

– Iranian theoretical physicist *

– Iranian biomedical researcher *

– Iranian physicist *

– theoretical physicist, MIT *

– Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Fields Operations, Google *

– Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices *

– electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California Irvine *

– Iranian-American-Canadian biomedical engineer at Harvard * Babak Hassibi – electrical engineer, Caltech *

– Iranian Armenian scientist *

– Lebanese theoretical physicist *

– Iraqi geologist *

– academician * Athar Ali – Pakistani system engineer and a rocket scientist *

– nuclear physicist and activist * Agha Shahi – diplomat and technocrat *

– literary figure, activist and scholar of Pakistan * Nayyar Ali Zaidi – Pakistani architect *

– British Pakistani physicist

Poets and writers

* Syed Ali Haider Nazam Tabatabai – translated Thomas Gray's

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'' is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751. The poem's origins are unknown, but it was partly inspired by Gray's thoughts following the death of the poet Richard West in 1742 ...

from poem to poem in Urdu. (1854 Luckhnow-1933 Hyderabad Deccan India). He was head of Translation Department of Usmania University, could speak write and understand English, German, French, Persian and Arabic. * * Mir Anis – classical Urdu poet and master of the elegies in honor of the tragedy of

Karbala Karbala or Kerbala ( ar, كَرْبَلَاء, Karbalāʾ , , also ;) is a city in central Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorat ...

known as Marsiya which was instrumental in the propagation of

azadari The Mourning of Muharram (also known as Azadari, Remembrance of Muharram or Muharram Observances) is a set of commemoration rituals observed primarily by Shia people. The commemoration falls in Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. ...

, or mourning of Muharram in South Asia *

Mirza Dabeer Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer ( ur, ), (29 August 1803 – 6 March 1875) was an Urdu poet who excelled and perfected the art of Marsiya writing. He is considered the leading exponent of Marsiya Nigari or marsiya writing along with Mir Anees. Mi ...

– Urdu poet and master of the Marsiya, contemporary, friend, and rival of Mir Anis *

Safi al-din al-Hilli Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī ( ar, صفي الدين الحلي; 26 August 1278 – 1349), more fully known as Safi al-Din Abd al-Aziz ibn Saraya al-Hilli, al-Ṭāʾī al-Sinbisī, Abu ’l-Maḥāsin, was a 14th century Arab poet. Life Despit ...

(1278 – c. 1349) – Iraqi poet *

Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri ( ar, محمد مهدي الجواهري ) (26 July 1899 – 27 July 1997) was an Iraqi poet.Adel Darwish, 'Obituary: Mohammed Al-Jawahri', ''The Independent'', 11 August 1997Online(subscription only) at HighBeam. Cons ...

– Iraqi poet *

Abdullah Al-Baradouni Abdullah Al-Baradouni ( ar, عبدالله البردوني; 1929–1999) was a Yemeni writer, poet and critic. He published 12 poetry books as well as six other books on topics such as politics, folklore, and literature. He is considered Y ...

– Yemeni writer and poet *

Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh ( ar, إبراهيم العريّض, born 8 March 1908 – died May 2002) was a Bahraini writer and poet, generally considered to be one of Bahrain's greatest poets and one of the leaders of the Bahraini literary movement in ...

–

Bahrani The Baharna ( ar, بحارنة) are the indigenous Shia Muslim inhabitants of Bahrain who inhabited the area before the arrival of Sunni Muslim Arab tribes from Najd, particularly by Banu Utbah in the 18th century which the Bahraini royal famil ...

poet *

Qassim Haddad Qassim Haddad (born 1948) is a Bahraini poet, particularly notable within the Arab world for his free verse poetry. His poems have been translated in several languages including German, English and French. Biography Qassim Haddad was born in Bah ...

– Bahrani poet, researcher, writer * Ali Al Jallawi – Bahrani poet *

Badawi al-Jabal Muhammad Sulayman al-Ahmad (1903– August 19, 1981) ( ar, محمد سليمان الأحمد), better known by his pen name Badawi al-Jabal ( ar, بدوي الجبل), was a Syrian poet known for his work in the neo-classical Arabic form. Accor ...

–

Syrian Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

poet *

Qurratulain Hyder Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for ...

– (She was Sunni but widely thought of as shia because of her name, Hyder..) female novelist and writer regarded as the "Grande Dame of Urdu literature" *

Ali Akbar Natiq , native_name_lang = , pseudonym = Natiq , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = Punjab, Pakistan , resting_place = , occupation = Writer, Poet , language = Punjabi, Urdu , nationality ...

– Pakistani poet and writer * Adunis – Syrian poet and writer * Muhammed Almagut – Syrian poet and writer *

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab Badr Shakir al Sayyab ( ar, بدر شاكر السياب) (December 24, 1926 in Jaykur, near Basra – December 24, 1964 in Kuwait) was a leading Iraqi poet, well known throughout the Arab world and one of the most influential Arab poets of all ti ...

– Iraqi poet * Nazik Al-Malaika – influential contemporary Iraqi female poet *

Bint al-Huda Amina Haydar al-Sadr ( ar, آمنة حيدر الصدر), known as Bint al-Huda al-Sadr (), was an Iraqi educator and political activist who was executed by Saddam Hussein along with her brother, Ayatullah Sayyid Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, in 1980 ...

– Iraqi educator and political activist *

Hasan Zyko Kamberi Hasan Zyko Kamberi was a distinguished bejtexhi (bard) writer of Albanian literature. Overview He was born in the second half of the eighteenth century in Starje, a southern Albanian village near Kolonja at the foot of Mount Gramoz. All that ...

– Albanian poet and writer *

Naim Frashëri Naim bey Frashëri, more commonly Naim Frashëri (; ; 25 May 184620 October 1900), was an Albanian historian, journalist, poet, rilindas and translator who was proclaimed as the national poet of Albania. He is regarded as the pioneer of modern ...

– Albanian poet and writer * Sami Frashëri – Albanian poet and writer *

Abdyl Frashëri Abdyl Dume bey Frashëri ( tr, Fraşerli Abdül Bey; 1 June 1839 – 23 October 1892) was an Ottoman Albanian civil servant, politician during the First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, and one of the first Albanian political ideologues ...

– Albanian poet and writer * Shahriar – Iranian poet *

Agha Shahid Ali Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born poet who immigrated to the United States, and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. His collections include ''A Walk T ...

– Kashmiri-American poet

Professionals

* Fakhruddin T. Khorakiwala – Indian businessman and Sheriff of Mumbai * Dr. Ilham Zaidi - Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist from India * Muhammad Hussain Inoki – Japanese retired professional wrestler, martial artist, politician, and promoter of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts * Tabish Hussain – English footballer

Politicians

Albania

Xhafer Bej Ypi Xhafer bey Ypi ( January 12, 1880, Starje – December 17, 1940) was an Albanian politician. A member of the Ypi dynasty of Albania, he was educated at a university in Istanbul. In 1920–1921 he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of J ...

– former

prime minister of Albania The Prime Minister of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially styled Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of the Republic of Albania and the mos ...

Mehdi Bej Frashëri Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People having the name Mehdi are in general originating from Iran mostly and sometimes India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Morocco, Algeria, ...

– former prime minister of Albania *

Ibrahim Biçakçiu Ibrahim Aqif Biçakçiu (also known as Ibrahim Biçaku) (10 September 1905 - 4 January 1977) was an Albanians, Albanian landowner and Axis powers, Axis Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II#Yugoslavia, collaborator, List of heads ...

– former prime minister of Albania

Azerbaijan

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...

– former

president of Azerbaijan The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan is the head of state of Azerbaijan. The Constitution states that the president is the embodiment of executive power, commander-in-chief, "representative of Azerbaijan in home and foreign policies", ...

Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev ( az, İlham Heydər oğlu Əliyev, ; born 24 December 1961) is the fourth president of Azerbaijan, serving in the post since 31 October 2003. The son and second child of the former Azerbaijani leader Heydar Aliyev, ...

– current president of Azerbaijan * Ali Asadov – current prime minister of Azerbaijan * Vilayət Eyvazov – current union home minister

Bahrain

* Abdul Amir al-Jamri – 'spiritual leader' of Bahrain's

Twelver Twelver Shīʿīsm ( ar, ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة; '), also known as Imāmīyyah ( ar, إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa Islam, comprising about 85 percent of all Shīʿa Muslims. The term ''Twelver'' refers t ...

Shi'a population and the 1990s Intifada *

Hasan Mushaima Hasan Mushaima ( ar, حسن مشيمع) is an opposition leader in Bahrain and the secretary-general of the Haq Movement, an important opposition party in Bahrain. Before forming Haq, he was a founding member of Al Wefaq and a leading figure in t ...

– secretary-general of the current

Haq Movement The Haq Movement for Liberty and Democracy ( ar, حركة حق حركة الحريات والديمقراطية) is an opposition political organization in Bahrain founded in November 2005 with Hasan Mushaima as its secretary general. Several of ...

* Ali Salman – secretary-general of the current Al-Wefaq *

Abdulhadi Al Khawaja Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja ( ar, عبد الهادي عبد الله حبيل الخواجة) is a Bahraini political activist. On 22 June 2011, al-Khawaja and eight others were sentenced to life imprisonment following the suppression o ...

– leading Bahraini human rights activist * Nabeel Rajab – president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights

Bangladesh

Nawab Ali Abbas Khan Nawab Ali Abbas Khan (born 26 December 1958) is a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament. Biography Khan was born into the Prithimpassa family on 26 December 1958. A member of the Jatiya Party (Ershad), he was elected as the memb ...

, Jatiya Party politician and three-time MP for

Maulvibazar-2 Moulvibazar-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Sultan Md. Mansur Ahmed of the Gano Forum. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kulaura Upazila. History The constituency ...

* Nawab Ali Haider Khan, 9th

Nawab of Longla The Prithimpassa family, also known as the Nawabs of Longla, are an royal family from the Prithimpassa Union, Kulaura Upazila, Moulvibazar, Sylhet, Bangladesh. The family was of the erstwhile feudal nobility of East Bengal. They played important ...

minister Minister may refer to: * Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric ** Minister (Catholic Church) * Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department) ** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...

and leader of the Independent Muslim Party

India

* Dr.(Capt) Sikander Rizvi - Renowned Pilot, Politician and Nationalist Speaker * Fazl Ali – governor and justice of

Supreme Court Of India The Supreme Court of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme judicial authority of India and is the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, has the final decision in all legal matters ...

Kaifi Azmi Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated ...

– poet * Tanveer Zaidi - actor * Bismillah Khan – musician *

Saiyid Nurul Hasan Saiyid Nurul Hasan (26 December 1921 – 12 July 1993) was an Indian historian and an elder statesman in the Government of India. A member of the Rajya Sabha, he was the Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, So ...

– professor * Altamas Kabir * Ayatullah Syed Abul Hasan Rizvi Kishmiri – Shia Mujtah * Ayatullah Syed Mohammad Baqir Rizvi – Shia jurist *

Syed_Aqeel-ul-Gharavi Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also known as Ayatullah Aqeel-ul-Gharavi ( ar, آيت الله السيد عقيل الغروى ) (born 2 February 1964) is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker, writer, poet, educationist, commu ...

– Shia Cleric and Scholar *

Syed Kirmani Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani (; born 29 December 1949) is an Indian cricketer who played cricket for Indian cricket team, India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper. In 2016, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award for Cricket in ...

* Dr.Syed Roshan Abbas – Shia politician * Mir Anis - Famous Urdu Poet (Marsiya Writer) *

- Famous Urdu Poet (Marsiya Writer) * Mohammad Islam Khan - Indian glycobiologist and a scientist at the National Chemical Laboratory *

Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda Mirza Mohammad rafi 'Sauda' ( ur, ), (1713–1781) was an Urdu poet in Delhi, India. He is known for his ''Ghazals'' and Urdu ''Qasidas''. Biography He was born in 1713 in Shahjahanabad (i.e. Old Delhi), where he was also brought up. At the ...

Javed Abidi Javed Abidi (11 June 1965 – 4 March 2018) was an Indian activist who served as the director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India, and the founder of the Disability Rights Group. He receive ...

Nawab of Banganapalle Banganapalle State was one of the princely states of India during the period of the British Raj. The state was founded in 1665 and had its capital in Banganapalle. Its rulers were Shia Muslims and the last one signed the accession to the Indian ...

Nawab of Masulipatam The Nawabs of Masulipatam ruled under the Nizam in eastern India. The best known of them was Nawab Haji Hassan Khan. Their title later became Nawab of Banganapalle as they shifted from Masulipatam to Banganapalle. They belong to the Najm-i-S ...

Intezar Abidi Intezar Abidi (born 11 July 1976) is an Indian politician with the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. Also known as Bobby, he is accused in many cases involving murder and other charges. Before being arrested in June 2011, he was a member of ...

– politician * Sir Sultan Ahmed *

Mir Sadiq Mir Sadiq held the post of a minister in the cabinet of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Fourth Anglo-Mysore War In the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the Brit ...

* Sadiq Kamani - Public & Motivational Speaker *

Sayyed Mahmud Khan ''Amiral Kabir'' Sayyid Mahmud Khan Barha, also known as Mahmud Khan, was a general in the Akbar's army, son of Sayyid Mubarak (also known as Makhan), was the first person of this family - the Saiyids of Barah - to rise to the rank of a noblem ...

* Kamal Amrohi * Shabana Azmi * Azim Premji – Indian business tycoon *

Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is an Indian politician and a member of the Central Election Committee of Bharatiya Janata Party. He is one of the national spokespersons of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Hussain was the Minister of Textiles and the ...

– former union cabinet minister of Government of India *

– cricketer * Bade Ghulam Ali Khan – singer *

Nawab of Rampur Rampur State was a 15 gun-salute princely state of British India. It came into existence on 7 October 1774 as a result of a treaty with Oudh. Following independence in 1947, Rampur State and other princely states of the area, such as Bena ...

– king *

Nawab of Lucknow The Nawab of Awadh or the Nawab of Oudh was the title of the rulers who governed the state of Awadh (anglicised as Oudh) in north India during the 18th and 19th centuries. The Nawabs of Awadh belonged to a dynasty of Persian origin from Nishap ...

– king *

Nargis Dutt Nargis Dutt (born Fatima Rashid; 1 June 1929 – 3 May 1981) was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema, she made her screen debut in a minor role ...

– actress * Naushad – music director * Salim–Sulaiman – musician * Jagdeep *

M. A. Yusuff Ali Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader, popularly known as Yusuff Ali M. A (born 15 November 1955) is a UAE-based Indian businessman and billionaire. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of LuLu Group International that owns the LuLu Hyp ...

- Indian Billionaire Businessman * Muzaffar Ali *

Farah Naaz Farah Naaz Hashmi, commonly credited as Farah, is a leading Bollywood actress of the mid 1980s and early 1990s. She is the elder sister of Tabu. Farah made her debut in ''Faasle'' in 1985 under the Yash Chopra films banner. She was one of the p ...

* Akbar Khan *

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian politician and was the Union Minister of Minority Affairs. He had served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2022 and was Deputy Leader of the House in Rajya Sab ...

– Union Minister govt. India * M. F. Hussain – painter * S. H. Raza – painter * Salim Ali – ornithologist *

Saeed Naqvi Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer. He has interviewed world leaders and personalities in India and abroad, which appear in newspapers, magazines and on national television, remained editor of the ''Wor ...

– journalist * Syed Ahmed – Governor of Jharkhand * Mohsin Zaidi – poet *

Aga Syed Mustafa Moosavi Mustafa Al-Moosavi Al-Safvi (2 February 1918 – 21 August 2002) widely known as Aga Sahab ( ur, آغا صاحب) was a Kashmiri Shia Muslim cleric, Islamic Jurist, Islamic scholar, philanthropist and former President of Anjuman-e-Sharie Shiyaa ...

– Shia scholar

Iran

* Amir Kabir – Prime Minister of

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

under Nasereddin Shah *

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , title = Shahanshah Aryamehr Bozorg Arteshtaran , image = File:Shah_fullsize.jpg , caption = Shah in 1973 , succession = Shah of Iran , reign = 16 September 1941 – 11 February 1979 , coronation = 26 October ...

– last Shah of Iran from 1941 until his overthrow due to the 1979

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...

Mohammed Mosaddeq Mohammad Mosaddegh ( fa, محمد مصدق, ; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, after appointment by the 1950 Iranian legislative election ...

– former

prime minister of Iran The Prime Minister of Iran was a political post that had existed in Iran (Persia) during much of the 20th century. It began in 1906 during the Qajar dynasty and into the start of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1923 and into the 1979 Iranian Revolution ...

Ruhollah Khomeini Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Khomeini, Imam Khomeini ( , ; ; 17 May 1900 – 3 June 1989) was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of ...

– marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979

Ali Khamenei Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...

– marja, third

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

and current supreme leader of Iran *

Mehdi Bazargan Mehdi Bazargan ( fa, مهدی بازرگان; 1 September 1907 – 20 January 1995) was an Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government. He was appointed prime minister in February 1979 by Ay ...

– former

Mohammad-Javad Bahonar Mohammad-Javad Bahonar ( fa, محمدجواد باهنر, 5 September 1933 – 30 August 1981) was a Shia Iranian theologian and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Iran for less than one month in August 1981. Bahonar and other member ...

– former

(killed by terrorists) * Abolhassan Banisadr – first president of Iran following the

Mohammad-Ali Rajai Mohammad-Ali Rajai ( fa, محمدعلی رجائی; 15 June 1933 – 30 August 1981) was the second president of Iran from 2 to 30 August 1981 after serving as prime minister under Abolhassan Banisadr. He was also minister of foreign affairs fro ...

− second president of Iran (killed by terrorists) * Mostafa Chamran – Iranian

defense minister A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...

, first commander of the

Pasdaran , meaning "Guards") can refer to: * Pasdaran (district) in Tehran * Informal name for the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسدا� ...

and founding member of the

Freedom Movement of Iran The Freedom Movement of Iran (FMI) or Liberation Movement of Iran (LMI; fa, نهضت آزادی ايران, Nahżat-e āzādi-e Irān) is an Iranian pro-democracy political organization founded in 1961, by members describing themselves as "Muslim ...

* Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – fourth president of Iran and current head of the Expediency Discernment Council *

Mohammad Khatami Sayyid Mohammad Khatami ( fa, سید محمد خاتمی, ; born 14 October 1943) is an Iranian politician who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to ...

– leading reformist Iranian politician and fifth president of Iran *

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( fa, محمود احمدی‌نژاد, Mahmūd Ahmadīnežād ), born Mahmoud Sabbaghian ( fa, محمود صباغیان, Mahmoud Sabbāghyān, 28 October 1956),

– sixth president of Iran and former

mayor of Tehran The Mayor of Tehran is an elected politician who, along with the City Council of 21 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Tehran. Since 2 September 2021, Alireza Zakani is the mayor of Tehran. Previously, the position was held b ...

Hassan Rouhani Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...

– seventh and current president of Iran and former chief nuclear negotiator * Ali Larijani – Iranian philosopher and speaker of the

Iranian parliament The Islamic Consultative Assembly ( fa, مجلس شورای اسلامی, Majles-e Showrā-ye Eslāmī), also called the Iranian Parliament, the Iranian Majles (Arabicised spelling Majlis) or ICA, is the national legislative body of Iran. The P ...

Ali Akbar Mohtashami-Pur Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur or Mohtashami ( fa, سید علی‌اکبر محتشمی‌پور‎; 30 August 1947 – 7 June 2021) was an Iranian Shia cleric who was active in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and later became interior minister of the I ...

– reformist Iranian politician and coordinator of

Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's parami ...

in its early days

Iraq

Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali Muhammad Fadhel al-Jamali ( ar, محمد فاضل الجمالي) (April 20, 1903 – May 24, 1997) was an Iraqi politician, Iraqi foreign minister, and prime minister of Iraq from 1953 to 1954. In 1945, al-Jamali, as Iraqi Minister of Forei ...

– Iraqi foreign minister, and

Prime Minister of Iraq The prime minister of Iraq is the head of government of Iraq. On 27 October 2022, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani became the incumbent prime minister. History The prime minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, a ...

Naji Talib Naji Talib ar, ناجي طالب (1 July 1917 – 23 March 2012) was the prime minister of Iraq from 1966 to 1967, replacing Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz.Batatu, H: ''The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq - A study of Iraq's ...

– former prime minister of Iraq *

Ezzedine Salim Ezzedine Salim ( ar, عز الدين سليم), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed (23 March 1943 – 17 May 2004, عبد الزهراء عثمان محمد), was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leadin ...

– former Iraqi politician * Ibrahim al-Jaafari – former prime minister of Iraq *

Nouri al-Maliki Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president ...

– former prime minister of Iraq * haider al-Abadi – current prime minister of Iraq * Adil Abdul-Mahdi – Iraqi

Shi'a Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

politician, economist * Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim – former leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq * Abdul Aziz al-Hakim – leader of Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq *

Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Sagheer ( ar, جلال الدين علي الصغير, Jalāl ud-Dīn ʿAliyy aṣ-Ṣaḡīr) is an Iraqi politician and a former member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. Prior to the 2003 US-led Inva ...

– Iraqi politician and a member of parliament in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq *

Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Bahr al-Uloom ( ar, محمد بحر العلوم‎; 17 December 1927 – 7 April 2015) was a Twelver Shi'a Islamic leader and politician in Iraq, who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq ( 43rd ...

– prominent

Islamic Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the mai ...

leader and politician in Iraq * Muqtada al-Sadr – Iraqi politician and head of the

Mahdi Army The Peace Companies ( ar, سرايا السلام, or Saraya al Salam) are an Iraqi armed group linked to Iraq's Shia community. They are a 2014 revival of the Mahdi Army ( ''Jaysh al-Mahdī'') that was created by the Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada a ...

* Ahmed Chalabi – Iraqi politician *

Abbas al-Bayati Natik Abbas Hasan al-Bayati is an Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is a member of the State of Law Coalition. He was exiled from Iraq under Saddam Hussein and became the Secretary General of the I ...

– Iraqi Shiite

Turkmen Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

politician *

Jasim Mohammed Jaafar Jasim Mohammed Jaafar ( ar, جاسم محمد جعفر) is an Iraqi politician who served as Minister for Youth & Sports in Nouri al-Maliki's government. He was elected to the post by the Iraqi National Assembly on 20 May 2006, having previously s ...

– Iraqi Shiite

politician *

Hussain al-Shahristani Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani (born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education. Early life and education al-Shahristani was born in 1942 in Karbala, Iraq. He hail ...

– current Iraqi minister of oil *

Shirwan al-Waili Shirwan Kamil al-Waili or Shirwan Waili (born 1957) is an Iraqi politician and Minister of State for National Security in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Background Born in the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, he graduated f ...

– current Iraqi minister of state for national security *

Mowaffak al-Rubaie Mowaffak Baker al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i) ( ar, موفق الربيعي, Muwaffaq ar-Rubayʿī) is an Iraqi politician, and was Iraq National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minis ...

– current Iraqi

national security advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

Baqir Jabr al-Zubeidi Baqir Jabr Al-Zubeidi ( ar, باقر جبر الزبيدي, Bāqir Jarb al-Zabīdī), also known as Bayan Jabr Solagh ( ar, بيان باقر صولاغ, Bayān Bāqir Sūlāġ), is a former commander of the Badr Brigades who served as the Fin ...

– current finance minister of Iraq *

Khaled al-Attiyah Shaykh Khaled Abather al-Attiyah (also transliterated as Attia) is an Iraqi politician who was elected in December 2005 to the Council of Representatives as an independent member of the United Iraqi Alliance. On 22 April 2006 he was elected First ...

-elected First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly *

Salama al-Khufaji Salama al-Khufaji was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. She was appointed on 8 December 2003 to hold the seat formerly held by Aquila al-Hashimi, who was assassinated in Se ...

– former member of the

Council of Representatives of Iraq The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌ران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature o ...

* Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail – Iraqi politician and a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq

Kuwait

* Adnan Zahid Abdulsamad – member of the

National Assembly of Kuwait The National Assembly ( ar, مجلس الأمة) is the unicameral legislature of Kuwait. The National Assembly meets in Kuwait City. Political parties are illegal in Kuwait, candidates run as independents. The National Assembly is made up of 50 ...

Ahmed Lari Ahmed Lari is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1955, Lari studied Statistics and worked in the Municipal Council before being elected to the National Assembly in 2006. While political parties are ...

– member of the National Assembly of Kuwait *

Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi Ali Hussain Al-Awadhi ( ar, علي حسين العوضي, born 2 May 1974) is a journalist, former student leader and politician from Kuwait. He is the first chairman of the Youth Association of Kuwait (then National Democratic Youth Associati ...

– journalist and politician *

Hussein Al-Qallaf Al-Bahraini Hussain Ali Alsayyid Khalifa Hussain al-Qallaf (Arabic:حسين علي السيد خليفة حسين القلاف) is a former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Born in 1958, Al-Qallaf studied Sharia law ...

– member of the National Assembly of Kuwait *

Hassan Jawhar Hasan Johar (born 1960) is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Johar obtained at PhD in political science from Florida State University and worked as a professor at Kuwait University before being elected to ...

– member of the National Assembly of Kuwait * Rola Dashti – member of the National Assembly of Kuwait *

Ibrahim Khraibut Ibrahim Khraibut ( ar, إبراهيم علي يوسف خريبط) (1913–2003) was a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from 1963 to 1979. He ran as an independent and served four consecutive terms. Khraibut represented the first district ...

– member of first National Assembly of Kuwait * Massouma al-Mubarak – Kuwait's first female minister *

Ibtihal Al-Khatib Ibtihal Al-Khatib ( ar, ابتهال الخطيب, born 15 February 1972) is a Kuwaiti academic, journalist, and prominent advocate of secular liberal values in Arab society. She is a professor at the Kuwait University in the department of Engli ...

– secular academic and politician *

Saleh Ashour Saleh Ashour (; born 1953) is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district. Early life Ashour was born in 1953 in Kuwait, to Ahmed Ashour. He is of Iranian descent from Tarakma. Ashour studied economics and ser ...

– member of the Kuwaiti parliament *

– member of the Kuwaiti parliament

Lebanon

Adel Osseiran Adel Osseiran ( ar, عادل عسيران; 5 June 1905 – 18 June 1998), also transliterated Adil 'Usayran or Adil Osseyran, was a prominent Lebanese statesman, a former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, and one of the founding fathers of the L ...

– one of the founders of modern

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

* Musa al-Sadr – contemporary Islamic philosopher and co-founder of the Amal Movement *

Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (also Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh; ar, محمد حسين فضل الله; 16 November 1935 – 4 July 2010) was a prominent twelver Shia cleric from a Lebanese people, Lebanese family. Born ...

(also Muhammad Husayn Fadl-Allāh or Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh) (born 1935) – prominent Lebanese Twelver Shi'a Muslim cleric * Hussein el-Husseini – former speaker of the

Lebanese Parliament The Lebanese Parliament ( ar, مجلس النواب, translit=Majlis an-Nuwwab; french: Chambre des députés) is the national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constit ...

, co-founder of the Amal Movement, fathered the Taif Agreement that led to the end of the

Lebanese Civil War The Lebanese Civil War ( ar, الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية, translit=Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990. It resulted in an estimated 120,000 fatalities a ...

* Nabih Berri – Speaker of the

Parliament of Lebanon The Lebanese Parliament ( ar, مجلس النواب, translit=Majlis an-Nuwwab; french: Chambre des députés) is the national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constit ...

; head of the mostly

Amal Movement * Abbas Musawi – former

secretary-general Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah ( ar, حسن نصر الله ; born 31 August 1960) is a Lebanese cleric and political leader who has served as the 3rd secretary-general of Hezbollah since his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel Def ...

–

Secretary-General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...

Imad Mughniyah Imad Fayez Mughniyeh ( ar, عماد فايز مغنية; 7 December 1962 – 12 February 2008), alias al-Hajj Radwan (), was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership. Information about ...

– former head of

's external security apparatus *

Ali Qanso Ali Khalil Qanso ( ar, علي قانصوه) was a Lebanese politician who served as a minister for parliamentary affairs in the second cabinet of Saad Hariri. He was the president of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and he served as minister ...

– former secretary-general of Syrian Social Nationalist Party * Ali Eid –

of Arabic Democratic Party

Pakistan

Iskander Mirza Sahibzada Iskander Ali Mirza ( bn, ইস্কান্দার আলী মির্জা; ur, ; 13 November 1899 – 13 November 1969), , was a Pakistani Bengali general officer and civil servant who was the first President of Pakis ...

– first president of Pakistan * Muhammad Musa – Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff during 1965 Indo Pak war and later Governor of Balauchistan *

Nayyar Hussain Bukhari Nayyar Hussain Bukhari ( ur, ; born 23 December 1952), is the senior senator from Islamabad and senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) who served as the 6th Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, in office from 12 March 2012 to 12 Mar ...

– Chairman of Senate of Pakistan * Syed Mehdi Shah – former chief minister of GB Province * Haider Abbas Rizvi *

Fakhar Imam Syed Fakhar Imam ( ur, سید فخر امام) (born 18 December 1942) is a Pakistani politician who served as Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research, from April 2020 to April 2022. He also served as the 11th Speaker of Natio ...

* Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat * Faisal Sabzwari * Ali Zaidi *

Firdous Ashiq Awan Firdous Ashiq Awan ( Punjabi, ur, , born 11 January 1970) is a Pakistani politician from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. She has served as Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting from 2019 to 2020, Federal Minister for ...

Mushahid Hussain Mushahid Hussain Syed ( Punjabi, ur, مشاہد حسین سید‬; b. 1953) is a Pakistani politician, and journalist who is currently the Pakistan Senator from the Islamabad Capital Territory on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) ...

* Shehla Raza *

Qaim Ali Shah Syed Qaim Ali Shah Jillani ( sd, سيد قائم علي شاه جيلاني , ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served as the elected Chief Minister of Sindh for three terms. His last two terms combined, a total of eight years, makes him t ...

Murad Ali Shah Syed Murad Ali Shah ( ur, , ; born 8 November 1962) is a Pakistani politician and structural engineer who is the 29th and current Chief Minister of Sindh province of Pakistan and has been a member of the Sindh Assembly. Early life and educa ...

* Mamnoon Hussain * Tahir Hussain Mashhadi * Zulfi Bukhari Advocate Chairman Collages ''Scholars *Grand Ayatullah Hafiz Bashir Husseyn Najafi * Grand Ayatullah Muhammad Hussain Najafi – Sargodha *Allama Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini * Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi – Quaid e Millat e Jaffaria

Syria

Zaki al-Arsuzi Zaki al-Arsuzi ( ar, زكي الأرسوزي, Zakī al-Arsūzī; June 18992 July 1968) was a Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, historian, and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and i ...

– Syrian political activist and writer * Assad Family – Syrian political family who are ruling Syria since the 1970s

Yemen

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din , succession1 = King of Yemen , succession2 = Imam of Yemen , image = Imam yahya cropped.png , image_size = , caption = Portrait of Yahya by Ameen Rihani, 1922. Imam Yahya steadfastly refused to be photographed thro ...

– founder of the

Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ( ar, المملكة المتوكلية اليمنية '), also known as the Kingdom of Yemen or simply as Yemen, or, retrospectively, as North Yemen, was a state that existed between 1918 and 1962 in the nor ...

Ibrahim al-Hamadi Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim al-Hamdi (30 September 1943 – 11 October 1977) ( ar, إبراهيم الحمدي, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥamdī) was the leader of a military '' coup d'etat'' in the Yemen Arab Republic that overthrew the regime of President ...

– former president of Yemen *

Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi ( ar, حسين بدر الدين الحوثي; 20 August 1959 – 10 September 2004), also spelled Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi, was a Yemeni Zaidi religious, political and military leader, as well as former member o ...

– Zaidi religious leader

Rulers and military figures

Earlier

– ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) *

Gawhar al-Siqilli Al-Qaid Jawhar ibn Abdallah ( ar, جوهر بن عبد الله, Jawhar ibn ʿAbd Allāh, better known as Jawhar al Siqilli, al-Qaid al-Siqilli (The Sicilian General); died 28 April 992) was a Shia Muslim Fatimid general from the Byzantine (Easte ...

– the most important military leader in the Fatimid history; led the conquest of North Africa and then of

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

, founded the city of

and the great

al-Azhar mosque Al-Azhar Mosque ( ar, الجامع الأزهر, al-Jāmiʿ al-ʾAzhar, lit=The Resplendent Congregational Mosque, arz, جامع الأزهر, Gāmiʿ el-ʾazhar), known in Egypt simply as al-Azhar, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt in the historic ...

Ziri ibn Manad Ziri ibn Manad or Ziri son of Mennad (died in 971) was the founder of the Zirid dynasty in the Maghreb. Ziri ibn Mennad was a chief of the Takalata branch of the Sanhajah confederation, to which the Kutama Berbers belonged located in the Central M ...

– founder of the Zirid dynasty in the

Maghreb The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...

* Buluggin ibn Ziri – the first ruler of the

Zirids The Zirid dynasty ( ar, الزيريون, translit=az-zīriyyūn), Banu Ziri ( ar, بنو زيري, translit=banū zīrī), or the Zirid state ( ar, الدولة الزيرية, translit=ad-dawla az-zīriyya) was a Sanhaja Berber dynasty from ...

Ifriqiya Ifriqiya ( '), also known as al-Maghrib al-Adna ( ar, المغرب الأدنى), was a medieval historical region comprising today's Tunisia and eastern Algeria, and Tripolitania (today's western Libya). It included all of what had previously ...

Al-Mansur ibn Buluggin al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin () (died 995) was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya (r. 984–995). Life Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (r. 972–984) in Ifriqiya. Despite further campaigns by the Zirids against the Berber t ...

– the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya *

Badis ibn Mansur Bādīs ibn al-Manṣūr (; died 1016), known fully as ʾAbū Manād Bādīs Nāṣir al-Dawla (), was the third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya from 996–1016. Badis ibn Mansur succeeded his father al-Mansur ibn Buluggin () as viceroy of Ifriqiya ...

– the third ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya *

Abu Zayd al-Hilali Abu Zayd Ibn Rizq Al-Hilali (, ) was an 11th-century Arab leader and hero of the 'Amirid tribe of Banu Hilal. On the orders of the Ismaili Fatimid caliph, Abu Zayd moved his tribe to Tunisia via Egypt to punish the Zirids for adopting Sunnii ...

– the 11th-century Arab leader and hero of the 'Amirid tribe of

Banu Hilal The Banu Hilal ( ar, بنو هلال, translit=Banū Hilāl) was a confederation of Arabian tribes from the Hejaz and Najd regions of the Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to North Africa in the 11th century. Masters of the vast plateaux of th ...

Al-Afdal Shahanshah Al-Afdal Shahanshah ( ar, الأفضل شاهنشاه, al-Afḍal Shāhanshāh; la, Lavendalius/Elafdalio; 1066 – 11 December 1121), born Abu al-Qasim Shahanshah bin Badr al-Jamali was a vizier of the Fatimid caliphs of Egypt. According to a ...

– a

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called ''katib'' (secretary), who was a ...

of the Fatimid caliphs of

* Iftikhar ad-Daula – the Fatimid governor of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

during the siege of Jerusalem * Shawar – a ruler of Egypt, the vizier *

Hassan-i Sabbah Hasan-i Sabbāh ( fa, حسن صباح) or Hassan as-Sabbāh ( ar, حسن بن الصباح الحميري, full name: Hassan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ja'far bin al-Husayn bin Muhammad bin al-Sabbah al-Himyari; c. 1050 – 12 June 1124) was the ...

– founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the

Hashshashin The Order of Assassins or simply the Assassins ( fa, حَشّاشین, Ḥaššāšīn, ) were a Nizārī Ismāʿīlī order and sect of Shīʿa Islam that existed between 1090 and 1275 CE. During that time, they lived in the mountains of P ...

* Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the Hashshashin sect and an important figure in the history of the

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were in ...

Azerbaijan

Surat Huseynov Surat Davud oghlu Huseynov ( az, Surət Davud oğlu Hüseynov; born 12 February 1959 in Kirovabad) is an Azerbaijani colonel and ex-Prime Minister of Azerbaijan, who rose to prominence during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. His military career l ...

– Azerbaijani colonel and ex-

prime minister of Azerbaijan The prime minister of Azerbaijan is the head of government of Azerbaijan. The current prime minister is Ali Asadov on 8 October 2019 after the removal of his predecessor, Novruz Mammadov. Due to the central role of the president in the politic ...

Eldar Mahmudov Eldar Mahmudov Ahmad oglu ( az, Eldar Mahmudov Əhməd oğlu) is an Azerbaijani politician formerly serving as the Minister of National Security of Azerbaijan Republic. Early life Mahmudov was born in Baku in 1956 to the family of a scientist. ...

– head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security * Rail Rzayev – former head of the Azerbaijani Air Force

India

Ali Adil Shah I Ali Adil Shah I ( fa, ; 1558–1579) was the fifth Sultan of Bijapur Sultanate. On the day of his coronation Ali abandoned the Sunni practices and reintroduced the Shi’ah Khutbah and other practices. The Persian doctors of religion were gra ...

of Bijapur (16th C), but his successors converted to Sunni Islam *

Wajid Ali Shah Mirza Wajid Ali Shah ( ur, ) (30 July 1822 – 1 September 1887) was the eleventh and last King of Awadh, holding the position for 9 years, from 13 February 1847 to 11 February 1856. Wajid Ali Shah's first wife was Alam Ara who was better k ...

– last

nawab Nawab (Balochi language, Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب; bn, নবাব/নওয়াব; hi, नवाब; Punjabi language, Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ; Persian language, Persian, Punjabi language, Punjabi , Sindhi language, Sindhi, Urd ...

of the princely kingdom of Awadh, early 19th Century * Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah – 5th sultan of the Qutb Shahi Sultanate of Golconda

Iran

– marja, third

and current supreme leader of Iran *

– marja, philosopher and leader of the 1979

– the last shah of Iran of the

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty ( fa, دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty, ruling for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier in modern times, who ...

, ruled from 1941 until being overthrown in the

resulting in the abolishment of the Iranian monarchy * Reza Shah Pahlavi – Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941, and father of

– founded a group whose members are sometimes referred to as the Hashshashin *

Allahverdi Khan Allahverdi Khan ( fa, اللّه وردی خان, ka, ალავერდი-ხანი) (c. 1560 – June 3, 1613) was an Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin who, initially a '' gholām'' ("military slave"), rose to high offic ...

– Iranian military and political leader of

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

origin *

Imam-Quli Khan Imam Quli Khan may refer to: * Imam Quli Khan of Bukhara (1582–1644) * Imam Quli Khan (Safavid governor) (died 1632) *David II of Kakheti (1678–1722) See also * Imam Quli (given name) * Khan (title) Khan ''khan/qan''; tr, han; Azerbaij ...

– Iranian general and statesman of Georgian origin *

Nader Shah Nader Shah Afshar ( fa, نادر شاه افشار; also known as ''Nader Qoli Beyg'' or ''Tahmāsp Qoli Khan'' ) (August 1688 – 19 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian h ...

– Shah of Iran during the Afsharid dynasty notable for his Naderian Wars, and conversion dominant belief system from

ideology to Jafari fiqh *

Abbas Mirza Abbas Mirza ( fa, عباس میرزا; August 26, 1789October 25, 1833) was a Qajar crown prince of Iran. He developed a reputation as a military commander during the Russo-Persian War of 1804–1813 and the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828, as ...

– Qajar

crown prince A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The female form of the title is crown princess, which may refer either to an heiress apparent or, especially in earlier times, to the wif ...

Gholamali Bayandor Gholamali Bayandor ( fa, غلامعلی بایندر; December 13, 1898 – August 25, 1941) was the Commander of the Imperial Iranian Navy from 1931 to August 25, 1941, and was killed during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. He was born in Teh ...

– first Commander of Imperial Iranian Navy *

Abbas Gharabaghi Arteshbod Abbas Gharabaghi ( fa, عباس قره‌باغی; 1 November 1918 – 14 October 2000) was the last chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces as well as deputy commander-in-chief of the Iranian Imperial Army during the rule of Moham ...

– last commander-in-chief of the

Imperial Iranian Army , founded = , current_form = ( Islamic Republic) , disbanded = , branches = , headquarters = Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, Tehran , website = , commander-in-chief = Maj. Ge ...

* Mohsen Rezaee – Chief commander of AGIR, 1981–1997 *

Yahya Rahim Safavi Yahya "Rahim" Safavi ( fa, یحیی (رحیم) صفوی, born 1952) is an Iranian military commander who served as the chief commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Early life Safavi was born in 1952 in the city of Isfahan, Iran. C ...

– Chief commander of AGIR, 1997–2007 * Mohammad Ali Jafari – Chief commander of AGIR * Ali Shamkhani – former defense minister of Iran * Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar – current defense minister of Iran * Ali Sayad Shirazi – chief-of-staff of the Iranian forces during Iran's eight-year war with Iraq *

Mohammad Boroujerdi Mohammad Boroujerdi ( fa, محمد بروجردی, 1955 – 1983/05/22) was an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander during the Iran–Iraq War. He played key roles in regaining control over the territories of Kurdistan by Iranian fo ...

– one of the founders of

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...

(AGIR) and a commander in

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for almost eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council ...

; played key roles in regaining control over the territories of

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, Kurdish la ...

by Iranian forces *

Hossein Kharrazi Hossein Kharrazi ( fa, حسین خرازی) (1957 – 27 February 1987) was the commander of IRGC's 14th Imam Hussein Division during Iran–Iraq War. He supported Islamic revolution and after its victory, served and helped safeguarding it. He w ...

– Iranian commander of "Imam Hosein 14th Division" during

Iraq

Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi Abdel-Karim Mahoud al-Mohammedawi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Shia Muslim, al-Mohommedawi led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern ma ...

– led the resistance against Saddam Hussein's government in the southern marsh regions of Iraq, where he gained the title "Prince of the Marshes" * Hadi Al-Amiri – head of the

Badr Organization The Badr Organization ( ar, منظمة بدر ''Munaẓẓama Badr''), previously known as the Badr Brigades or Badr Corps, is an Iraqi Shia Islamist political party and military organization headed by Hadi Al-Amiri. The Badr Brigade was the Ir ...

, which was the military wing of the

Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI or SIIC; ar, المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي ''Al-Majlis Al-A'ala Al-Islami Al-'Iraqi''; previously the party was known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ...

Aras Habib Aras Habib was a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters and the long-term director of intelligence for Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress (INC). He may have been the man in charge of the INC’s quest to hunt down former high-level Ba’at ...

– a colonel in the Free Iraqi Fighters *

Abud Qanbar Abboud Qanbar( ar, عبود قنبر), also known as Abu Haidar, is an Iraqi General. On January 13, 2007, he was appointed by Prime Minister Nouri Maliki as the Iraqi commander for the Baghdad Operations Command, which controlled all Iraqi securi ...

– former military governor of

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Lebanon

Adham Khanjar Adham Khanjar ( ar, أدهم خنجر) (1890–1922) was a Lebanese Shia Muslim revolutionary and Syrian nationalist who participated in guerilla warfare against the forces of the French occupation of Lebanon and Syria, and the attempt to assassi ...

– Lebanese national hero * Mohammad Zgheib –

1948 Arab–Israeli War The 1948 (or First) Arab–Israeli War was the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had ...

war hero *

Hisham Jaber General Hisham M. Jaber (born September 13, 1942) ( ar, اللواء الركن هشام جابر) is a retired Lebanese Major General and political researcher. Early life and education Born in Nabatieh, in South Lebanon, he is the grandson of h ...

– former military governor of

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

– former head of

's external security apparatus *

Sana'a Mehaidli Sana'a Mehaidli ( ar, سناء محيدلي; August 14, 1968 – April 9, 1985) was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party who, at the age of 16 blew herself and a Peugeot filled with explosives up next to an Israeli convoy in Jezzine, Leb ...

– Lebanese martyr * Samir Kuntar – Lebanese militant and a former member of the Palestine Liberation Front

Syria

– ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) * Rashid ad-Din Sinan – one of the leaders of the Syrian wing of the

sect and an important figure in the history of the

* Saleh al-Ali – commanded one of the first rebellions against the

French mandate of Syria The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (french: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; ar, الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, al-intidāb al-fransi 'ala suriya wa-lubnān) (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate foun ...

* Salah Jadid – Syrian general and political figure in the Baath Party * Assef Shawqat – head of the

Military Intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from a ...

apparatus since 2005 * Maher al-Assad – brother of Syrian president

Bashar al-Assad Bashar Hafez al-Assad, ', Levantine pronunciation: ; (, born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the ...

; head of the Presidential Guard * Ghazi Kanaan –

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

interior minister An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

, 2004–2005; long-time head of

's security apparatus in

* Hisham Ikhtiyar – director of the GID, 2001–2005

Yemen

* Abdul-Malik al-Houthi – leader of Shi'a Zaidi *

Abdullah al-Ruzami Abdullah Eida al-Ruzami was the military leader of Zaidi rebels, known as the Houthis, who fought against the government of Yemen during the Houthi insurgency in Yemen.

– leader of Shi'a Zaidi

Theologians

* Al-Shaykh al-Saduq * Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid * al-Sharif al-Murtada * Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni *

Shaykh Tusi Shaykh Tusi ( fa, شیخ طوسی), full name ''Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Hassan Tusi'' ( ar, ابو جعفر محمد بن حسن طوسی), known as Shaykh al-Taʾifah ( ar, links=no, شيخ الطائفة) was a prominent Persian scholar of the ...

* Al-Hurr al-Aamili * Shahid Awwal *

Shahid Thani Zayn al-Dīn al-Juba'ī al'Amilī ( ar, زين الدين الجبعي العاملي) (1506-1559), also known as ash-Shahīd ath-Thanī ( ar, الشهيد الثاني, ' "The Second Martyr") was a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar. Early life He was ...

Qazi Nurullah Shustari Sayyid Nurullah ibn Sharif al-Mar'ashi al-Shustari, commonly known as Qazi Nurullah Shushtari (1549–1610), also known as ''Shahid-e-Salis'' (third martyr) was an eminent Shia faqih (jurist) and alim (scholar) of the Mughal period. He may als ...

(

Shahid Salis Sayyid Nurullah ibn Sharif al-Mar'ashi al-Shustari, commonly known as Qazi Nurullah Shushtari (1549–1610), also known as ''Shahid-e-Salis'' (third martyr) was an eminent Shia faqih (jurist) and alim (scholar) of the Mughal period. He may als ...

) *

Shahid Rabay ''Hakim Mirza'' Muhammad Kamil ''Dehlavi'' (d. 1809/10), also known as Shahid Rabay (The Fourth Martyr) was an Indian Shia author and a practitioner of Unani medicine in Delhi. Nuzhat-e-Isna Ashariya He authored ''Nuzhat-e-Isna Ashariya'' , a ...

Maitham Al Bahrani Kamal al-Deen Maitham bin Ali bin Maitham al-Bahrani ( ar, الشيخ ميثم البحراني, 1238 – 1299), commonly known as Sheikh Maitham Al Bahrani (also spelt Maytham al-Bahrani) was a leading 13th Century Twelver Eastern Arabian theolog ...

– 13th-century cleric and theologian * Al-Hilli – 13th-century cleric and theologian

Religious figures

Agha Muhammad Reza Mirza Agha Muhammad Reza Baig ( bn, মির্জ়া আগা মোহাম্মদ রেজ়া বেগ, fa, ميرزا آغا محمد رضا بیگ), also known by his followers as Pir Ferutupi ( bn, পীর ফেরুটু ...

–

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

Shia Muslim immigrant living in the Sylhet region of

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

. Claimed to be the

Mahdi The Mahdi ( ar, ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, al-Mahdī, lit=the Guided) is a Messianism, messianic figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the Eschatology, end of times to rid the world of evil and injustice. He is said to be a de ...

and

twelfth imam Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Mahdī ( ar, محمد بن الحسن المهدي) is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justic ...

, engaged in battles against the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

and

Kachari Kingdom The Dimasa Kingdom (also Kachari kingdom) was a late medieval/early modern kingdom in Assam, Northeast India ruled by Dimasa kings. The Dimasa kingdom and others (Kamata, Chutiya) that developed in the wake of the Kamarupa kingdom were examp ...

. *

Salih Al-Karzakani Sheikh Salih Al-Karzakani ( ar, صالح الكرزكاني) was a seventeenth-century Bahraini theologian who was appointed by the Safavid empire as a religious court judge in Shiraz. Al Karzakani left Bahrain along with his friend and fellow cler ...

– 17th-century cleric * Muhammad Baqir Majlisi – 17th-century cleric *

Abdullah al Samahiji ''ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ as Samāhijī'' (1675–1722) ( ar, عبد الله بن صالح السماهيجي) was a Bahraini Shia Islamic scholar who lived during the Safavid period. He was born in the village of Samaheej on Muharraq Island, a ...

– 18th-century cleric *

Yusuf Al Bahrani Yūsuf ibn ʾAḥmad (1695–1772) ( ar, يوسف البحراني) was a Bahraini theologian and a key figure in the intellectual development of Twelver Shia Islam. Yusuf grew up in Safavid-ruled Bahrain, at a time of intellectual ferment betwee ...

– 18th-century cleric * Allamah Ibrahim el-Zakzaky – influential Shia cleric in

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; leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria *

Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi Syed Jawad Naqvi ( ur, ; born 1952) is a Pakistani philosopher, scholar, Religious Leader, Quranic interpreter and theologian of Twelver Shia. Early life and family details He was born on 5 March 1952 in a village named Thipra Syedan, of Hari ...

– Religious Leader and influential Shia Scholar in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

Ayatollah Ayatollah ( ; fa, آیت‌الله, āyatollāh) is an Title of honor, honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century. Etymology The title is originally derived from ...

Mahmoud Taleghani Sayyid Mahmoud Alaee Taleghani ( fa, محمود طالقانی, , also Romanized as Seyed Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a Islamic Scholar ...

– cleric, head of the

Council of Islamic revolution The Council of the Islamic Revolution ( fa, شورای انقلاب اسلامی, Šūrā-ye enqelāb-e eslāmī) was a group formed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to manage the Iranian Revolution on 10 January 1979, shortly before he returned ...

and founding member of the

* Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr – Islamic philosopher, father of contemporary Islamic economics and founder of the Islamic Dawa Party *

Allameh Tabatabaei Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i or Sayyid Mohammad Hossein Tabataba'i (16 March 1903 – 15 November 1981) was an Iranian scholar, theorist, philosopher and one of the most prominent thinkers of modern Shia Islam. He is perhaps best known for his '' ...

– one of the most prominent Islamic philosophers and, at one point, the foremost source of emulation ( Marja) for

Shi'a Muslims Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most n ...

around the world * Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah – foremost marja of Lebanese Shi'a Muslims * Navvab Safavi – founder of the militant group Fadayan-e Islam *

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ...

– currently the pre-eminent marja of Shi'a Muslims around the world and arguably the most influential political figure in Iraq today *

Ahmad Huseinzadeh Ahmad Huseinzadeh ( az, Əhməd Hüseynzadə) also known as Sheikh Ahmad Salyani — third Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus, maternal grandfather of Ali bey Huseynzade. Early life He was born in Salyan in 1812 to Ali Huseynzadeh. He was brought u ...

– third

Sheikh ul-Islam Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

of the

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* Grand Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim – sole Shi'a marja in the early 1960s * Grand Ayatollah

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei ( ; ar, أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; fa, ; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja'. Al-Khoei is considered one of the most influential t ...

– Shi'a marja * Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr – Shi'a marja * Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri – Shi'a marja *

Ahmed Al-Waeli Ahmed Al-Waeli Al-Laithi Al-Kinani (1928–2003) ( ar, الدكتور الشيخ أحمد الوائلي الليثي الكناني) was a prominent Arab Shia Islamic Scholar, who preached the Islamic thoughts through books and lectures. He w ...

– one of the most well-known Shi'a Islamic prominent clerks in the 20th century * Aga Khan IV – imam of the Nizari

Ismaili Isma'ilism ( ar, الإسماعيلية, al-ʾIsmāʿīlīyah) is a branch or sub-sect of Shia Islam. The Isma'ili () get their name from their acceptance of Imam Isma'il ibn Jafar as the appointed spiritual successor (imām) to Ja'far al-Sa ...

tariqah of

Shia Islam Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, m ...

Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi Sayyid Sa‘eed Akhtar Rizvi ( ur, سيد سعيد اختر رضوي) (1927–2002) was an Indian born, Twelver Shī‘ah scholar, who promoted Islam in East Africa. He was given authorizations ( ar, اجازة) by fourteen Grand Ayatullahs for ...

– well-known Twelver Shia scholar who promoted Shia Islam in East Africa *

Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi Syed Ali Akhtar Rizvi (19 September 1948 – 10 February 2002), widely known as Adeeb-e-Asr and Allamah Shaoor, was an Indian Twelver Shī'ah scholar, public speaker, translator, and historian as well as an author and poet. He authored and ...

– well-known Twelver Shī'ah

scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researche ...

speaker Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** In ...

author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

* Allama

Talib Jauhari Talib Johri (27 August 1929 – 21 June 2020) ( ur, ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam. He is widely renowned as the most prominent Shia scholar, and his sermons were broadcast on PTV ...

Mohsin Naqvi Mohsin Naqvi (10 May 1947 − 15 January 1996) was a Pakistani poet, known for his ghazals. Early life Naqvi was born on 10 May 1947 in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). His father, Syed Chirag Hussain Shah, was a s ...

– Urdu poet of Pakistan * Allama Sayyed Imdad Husayn Kazmi al-Mashadi - Pakistani Shi'a scholar who wrote tafsir of Qur'an (Qur'an ul-Mubeen
https://www.scribd.com/document/391093948/Quran-Ul-Mubeen-by-Syed-Imdad-Hussain-Kazmi)

Famous Shias

* Rajab Bursi – Arab Shi'ite theologian and mystic *

Sayyid Baraka Sayyid Baraka (1343–1403) was a holy man of the commercial city of Tirmidh, and spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th century Central Asian conqueror Timur. He was a fief of Andkhoy in Afghanistan, a town given to him by Timur. Timur is b ...

– spiritual teacher and friend to the 14th-century warlord

Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...

* Mir Shamsuddin – Iraqi missionary. *

Shah Ni'matullah Wali Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, ( fa, شاه نعمت‌الله ولی ''Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī''), also spelled as ''Ne'matollah'' and ''Ni'matallah'' was the spiritual leader or Qutb of the Ni'matullah Order in Iran from th ...

–

Islamic scholar In Islam, the ''ulama'' (; ar, علماء ', singular ', "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ''ulema''; feminine: ''alimah'' ingularand ''aalimath'' lural are the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of reli ...

and poet * Safi-ad-din Ardabili –

eponym An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. The adjectives which are derived from the word eponym include ''eponymous'' and ''eponymic''. Usage of the word The term ''epon ...

of the

dynasty * Abba Yahiyya Ishmaili *

Baba Rexheb Rexheb Beqiri (18 August 190110 August 1995), better known by the religious name Baba Rexheb, was an Albanian Islamic scholar and Sufi. He was the founder and the head of the Bektashi Sufi lodge ('' tekke'') located in Taylor, Michigan, Uni ...

Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...

Bektashi

Modern and contemporary philosophers

Morteza Motahhari Morteza Motahhari ( fa, مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on th ...

– Iranian cleric, philosopher and politician * Hossein Nasr – Islamic philosopher and professor of

Islamic studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

George Washington University , mottoeng = "God is Our Trust" , established = , type = Private federally chartered research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.8 billion (2022) , preside ...

* Muhammad Legenhausen – modern Shi'a Muslim philosopher of

German American German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the Unite ...

background, PhD at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

Entertainment and media personalities

Asghar Farhadi Asghar Farhadi ( fa, اصغر فرهادی, ; born 7 May 1972)Soureh Movie Database

–

film director and screenwriter *

Abdulhussain Abdulredha Abdulhussain Abdulredha ( ar, عبد الحسين عبد الرضا, ʿAbd al-Ḥussain ʿAbd ar-Riḍā; 15 July 1939 – 11 August 2017) was an iconic Kuwaiti actor. Background Abdulredha was born in Derwazat Al Abdulrazzaq, Al-Awazem villag ...

– Kuwaiti actor and writer * Ali Haider – Pakistani singer; now Islamic singer * Mohammad Reza Sharifinia – Iranian actor *

Zainab Bahrani Zainab Bahrani ( ar, زينب البحراني) (born 29 August 1962) is an Iraqi Assyriologist and professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University. Career A native of Baghdad, Iraq, she was educated in Europe and th ...

– Iraqi art historian *

Shahriar Bahrani Shahriar Bahrani ( fa, شهریار بحرانی) is an Iranian director. Selected filmography * 2009: The Kingdom of Solomon * 2000: Saint Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, ...

– Iranian film director * Abbas Fahdel – Iraqi film director. * Mir Sarwar – Indian actor. *

Mohamed Al-Daradji Mohamed Al-Darraji (born 6 August 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi Dutch, Iraqi-Dutch film director. He studied theater in Iraq, and cinematography and directing in England. He is known for his drama films, which focus on political affairs in the ...

– Iraqi Dutch film director *

Hassan Massoudy Hassan Massoudy (حسن المسعود الخطاط), born in 1944, is an Iraqi painter and calligrapher, considered by the French writer Michel Tournier as the "greatest living Calligrapher", currently lives in Paris. His work has influenced a gen ...

– Iraqi calligrapher *

Ahmed Al Safi Ahmed Al Safi ( ar, احمد الصافي, born 1971) is an Iraqi sculptor and painter. Life and career Al Safi was born in Al Diwaniyah, Iraq. He studied sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Baghdad. He won the Ismail Fatah Al Turk Prize fo ...

– Iraqi artist *

Nedim Kufi Nedim Kufi (also known as Nadem al-Kufi), born 1962 in Baghdad), is an Iraqi-Dutch multi disciplinary visual artist. He is primarily known for conceptual art that explores themes such as war, political conflict, exile, loss, and historical memor ...

– Iraqi artist *

Sadequain Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi ( ur, ) (30 June 1930 10 February 1987), often referred to as Sadequain Naqqash, was a Pakistani artist, best known for his skills as a calligrapher and a painter. He is considered one of the finest painters and cal ...

– Pakistani artist * Usama Alshaibi – Iraqi-American

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

filmmaker,

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and media artist * Jagdeep – Syed Jawahar Ali Jaffery, comedy actor in early Indian cinema *

Farida Mohammad Ali Farida Mohammad Ali (Arabic, فريدة محمد علي) (born 1963 in Kerbala, Iraq) is an Iraqi singer. She performs regularly in the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble. The ensemble was established in 1989 in Baghdad by Mohammad H.Gomar to continue of the 19 ...

– Iraqi singer *

Naseer Shamma Naseer Shamma ( ar, نصير شمه) is an Iraqi musician and oud player. He was born in 1963 in Kut, a city on the Tigris River. He began studying the oud at the age of 12 in Baghdad, following in the footsteps of Jamil and Munir Bashir. He re ...

– Iraqi musician and oud player *

Imran Abbas Naqvi Syed Imran Abbas Naqvi (born 15 October 1982), professionally known by his stage name Imran Abbas, is a Pakistani actor and model who works predominantly in Urdu television. Abbas made his acting debut with ''Umrao Jan Ada, Umrao Jaan Ada'' i ...

– Pakistani actor *

Sadegh Tirafkan Sadegh Tirafkan ( fa, صادق تیرافکن; July 3, 1965 in Karbala, Iraq to Iranian parents – May 9, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was an Iranian contemporary artist who lived mainly in Tehran, Iran. Career Tirafkan employed differ ...

– Iranian contemporary artist * Khosrow Vaziri – Iranian professional wrestler, retired *

Rahat Kazmi Rahat Kazmi ( ur, ) is a Pakistani actor, screenwriter, TV news presenter anchorman, and an academician. He has worked in several TV serials for PTV such as 1967's ''Mayaar'', 1974's ''Qurbatain aur Faaslay'' and 1976's Pakistan's first coloure ...

– Pakistani actor, professional speaker and academician * Zulfiqar Mirza – Pakistani politician *

Zain Imam Zain Imam is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi television. He is best known for his portrayal of Neil Khanna in ''Star Plus'' show '' Naamkaran '' and Yuvraj Luthra in Zee TV's ''Tashan-E-Ishq'' which earned him Gold Awards for B ...

– Indian television actor

Other

Edoardo Agnelli Edoardo Agnelli (9 June 1954 – 15 November 2000) was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat and of Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto). He converted to Islam when he was l ...

– son of

Gianni Agnelli Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli (; 12 March 192124 January 2003), nicknamed ("The Lawyer"), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce a ...

and former heir to

Fiat Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (, , ; originally FIAT, it, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino, lit=Italian Automobiles Factory of Turin) is an Italian automobile manufacturer, formerly part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and since 2021 a subsidiary ...

Qasem Soleimani Qasem Soleimani ( fa, قاسم سلیمانی, ; 11 March 19573January 2020) was an Iranian military officer who served in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). From 1998 until his assassination in 2020, he was the commander of the Quds F ...

– Iranian General

References

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