This article is an incomplete list of noted modern-era (20th to 21st century)

Islamic scholars 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 religious ...

. This refers to religious authorities whose publications or statements are accepted as pronouncements on religion by their respective communities and adherents. Geographical categories have been created based on commonalities in culture and across the Islamic World.

Africa

Nigeria

* Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa (born 1969) * Dahiru Usman Bauchi (born 1927) * Isa Ali Pantami * Ja'afar Mahmud Adam (1960–2007) *

Kabiru Gombe Kabir Muhammad Haruna popularly known as Kabiru Gombe is a Nigerian Islamic scholar and preacher. He has been the present National Secretary General of the Jama'atu Izalatil Bid'ah wa Iqamatus Sunnah, the largest Salafiyyah movement in Nigeria,s ...

(born 1960) * Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria (1960–2014) * Sani Umar Rijiyar Lemo (born 1970) * Sani Yahaya Jingir

Egypt

Abd al-Hamid Kishk Abdal-Hamid Kishk ( ar, عبد الحميد كشك; March 10, 1933 – December 6, 1996) was an Egyptian preacher, scholar of Islam, activist, and author. He was a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Cairo and was known for his humour, popular se ...

(1933–1996) *

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

(born 1946) *

Ahmad Muhammad Shakir Ahmad Muhammad Shakir ( ar, أحمد محمد شاكر, Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir) (January 29, 1892, Cairo – June 14, 1958) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar of hadith. He is the son of Muḥammad Shākir ibn Aḥmad, an Islamic scholar of A ...

(1892–1958) *

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

(born 1952) *

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

(1911–1998) *

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ( ar, محمد سيد طنطاوي; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as ''Tantawi'', was an influential Islamic scholar in Egypt. From 1986 to 1996, he was the Grand Mufti of Egypt. In 1996, presid ...

(1928–2010) *

Yusuf al-Qaradawi Yusuf al-Qaradawi ( ar, يوسف القرضاوي, translit=Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; or ''Yusuf al-Qardawi''; 9 September 1926 – 26 September 2022) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of ...

(1926–2022) *

Zainab al Ghazali Zaynab al-Ghazali ( ar, زينب الغزالي; 2 January 1917 – 3 August 2005) was an Egyptian Muslim activist. She was the founder of the Muslim Women's Association (''Jamaa'at al-Sayyidaat al-Muslimaat''). Biography Early life Her father ...

(1917–2005)

Mauritania

* Abdallah Bin Bayyah (born 1935)

South Africa

Abdalqadir as-Sufi Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Stewart Dallas; 1930 – 1 August 2021) was a Shaykh of Instruction, leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Tariqa, founder of the Murabitun World Movement and author of numerous books on Islam, Sufism and poli ...

(1930–2021) * Ebrahim Desai (1963–2021) *

Taha Karaan Taha Karaan (2 June 1969 – 11 June 2021) was a South African Muslim scholar and jurist. He was the head- mufti of the Muslim Judicial Council, South Africa. He was the founder of Mahajjah Research Institute and the Dar al-Uloom al-Arabiyyah al- ...

(1969–2021) *

Yusuf Karaan Yusuf Karaan (also written as Yousuf Abdullah Karaan) (15 November 1935 - 10 May 2015) was a South African Sunni Muslim scholar from Strand who served as head mufti of Muslim Judicial Council. Biography Karaan was born on 15 November 1935. He ...

(1935–2015)

Zimbabwe

Ismail ibn Musa Menk Ismail ibn Musa Menk ( ar, إسماعيل بن موسى منك, translit=ʾismāʿīl ibn mūsā mink) (born 27 June 1975) is a Zimbabwean Islamic scholar, best known as Mufti Menk. He is the Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe's Muslim community, which m ...

(born 1975)

Ghana

Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar Ahmed Tijani Ben Omar ( ar, أحمد تيجاني بن عمر) is a Ghanaian born American Islamic scholar and Imam. Education Tijani was born in Accra, Ghana. His hometown is Asamankese, West Akim Municipal District, Ghana. He specialised in ...

(born 1950) *

Osman Nuhu Sharubutu Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu (born 23 April 1919) is a Ghanaian Islamic cleric who currently serves as the Chief Imam of Ghana, as well as a member of the National Peace Council. He was first appointed as the Deputy Regional Chief Imam in 1974 after ...

(born 1919)

Senegal

Ibrahim Niass Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975)—or french: Ibrahima Niasse, wo, Ibrayima Ñas, ar, شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي ''Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al- ...

(1900–1975)

Somalia

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sharif Sheikh Ahmed ( so, Shariif Sheekh Axmed, ar, شريف شيخ أحمد; born 25 July 1964) is a Somali politician who served as President of Somalia from 2009 to 2012. He is the founder and leader of Himilo Qaran political party and ...

(born 1964)

Morocco

Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari ( ar, عبد العزيز بن الصديق; November 1920 in Tangier – November 6, 1997, in Tangier) was a Muslim scholar from Morocco. He is from the Idrissite branch of Moroccan Sayyids that ...

(1920-1997) *

Asma Lamrabet Asma Lamrabet (Rabat, Morocco, 1961) is a Moroccan doctor, Islamic feminist, scholar and author. Personal life Asma Lamrabet was born in Rabat. She currently resides in Rabat, Morocco. She considers her education to be occidental. She is married ...

(Born 1951) *

Fatima al-Kabbaj Fatima al-Kabbaj (Tamazight: ⴼⴰⵜⵉⵎⴰ ⵍⵇⴱⴱⴰⵊ) was one of the first female students to attend the University of al-Qarawiyyin. She later became the sole female member of the Moroccan Supreme Council of Religious Knowledge. ...

(born 1932) *

Muhammad Abu Khubza Abu Uways Muhammad Abu Khubza al-Hassani ( ar, مُحَمَّد بن الأَمِين بُوخُبْزَة الْحسْنِيُّ; July 30, 1932 – January 30, 2020)International Institute for Counter-Terrorismbr>report 1 January 2012. was a Moro ...

(1932-2020)

Asia

West Asia

Iran

Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abd al-A'la al-Musawi al-Sabziwari ( fa, ; ar, عبد الأعلى الموسوي السبزواري; December 21, 1910 – August 16, 1993) was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja'. He is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

(1910–1993) *

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli Abdollah Javadi Amoli ( fa, عبدالله جوادی آملی; born ) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative and principlist Iranian politician, philosopher and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza. The offic ...

(born 1933) * Ahmad Jannati (born 1927) *

Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani Ayatollah Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani (Persian: احمد مجتهدی تهرانی) was an Iranian Twelver Shia ayatollah/scholar who was born on 2 October 1923 in Tehran in a religious family. His father was Mohammad-Baqer, and his grandfather was Mir ...

(1923–2008) *

Ali Akbar Ghoreishi Ayatollah Seyed Ali Akbar Ghoreishi ( fa, علی‌اکبر قریشی, born 1928 in Bonab, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian Shiite cleric, author and politician. He is a member of 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th and 5th Assembly of Experts from electorate West ...

(born 1928) *

Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Mohammad Dastgheib Shirazi (Persian: السيد علی‌محمد دستغیب شيرازي ) (born 14 March 1935) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. Biography Ayatollah Dastegheib has studied in seminaries of Qum ...

(born 1935) *

Ali Movahedi-Kermani Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani ( fa, محمدعلی موحدی کرمانی) is Tehran's Friday Prayer Ephemeral Imam and the former secretary-general of Combatant Clergy Association. He is also a member of the Assembly of Experts. He ...

(born 1931) *

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 presiden ...

(born 1939) * Fakhraddin Mousavi (born 1930) *

Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli Hassan Hasanzadeh Amoli ( fa, حسن حسن‌زاده آملی, 12 February 1929 – 25 September 2021) was an Iranian Shi'ite theologian known for his mystical tendencies and Islamic philosophy. He was among clerics who overcomed the tradition ...

(born 1928) *

Hossein Mazaheri Grand Ayatollah Hossein Mazaheri Isfahani ( ar, حسين المظاهري الأصفهاني) (born November 16 1933) is a senior Iranian Twelver Shia Marja. He was also a member of the Third Assembly of Experts. Biography Grand Ayatollah H ...

(born 1933) * Hossein Wahid Khorasani (born 1921) *

Hussein-Ali Montazeri Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri ( fa, حسینعلی منتظری‎ ; 24 September 1922 – 19 December 2009) was an Iranian Shia Islamic theologian, Islamic democracy advocate, writer and human rights activist. He was one of the lea ...

(1922–2009) *

Iftikhār al-Tujjar Iffat al-Zaman Amin (1912 - 1977), also known as Iftikhar al-Tujjar, was a student and niece of Banu Amin, Iran's most prominent female religious scholar of the 20th century. Iffat al-Zamān Amīn received an ijazah of riwāya in Najaf from Ayato ...

(1912-1977) *

Ja'far Sobhani Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani ( fa, جعفر سبحانی) (born 9 April 1929 in Tabriz) is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja, influential theologian and writer. Sobhani was a former member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and founder of I ...

(born 1929) *

Jawad Tabrizi Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Mirza Jawad Kubar Tabrizi ( fa, ; 1926 – November 20, 2006) was an Iranian Shia marja'. Tabrizi was another prominent student of the late grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and one of the leading religious au ...

(1926–2006) *

Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani ( fa, لطف‌الله صافی گلپایگانی; 20 February 1919 – 1 February 2022) was an Iranian Grand Ayatollah. He was at one point the most senior Twelver Shia scholar (Marja') in Iran until his death. He res ...

(born 1919) *

Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Gerami Qomi (Persian: محمدعلى گرامى قمي; born 1938) is an Iranian peoples, Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja', Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Al ...

(born 1938) * Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri (born 1941) * Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati (born 1933) * Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1904–1986) *

Mohammad Khamenei Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei ( fa, سید محمد خامنه‌ای, born 25 December 1935) is an Iranian cleric and politician. He is the older brother of Ali Khamenei, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, and Hadi Khamenei. Currently, he is the pre ...

(born 1935) * Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1903–1981) * Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani (born 1926) *

Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani (Persian: محمد صادقی تهراني) (born 1926 - died March 21, 2011) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Qum, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Muha ...

(1926–2011) * Mohammad Sadoughi (1909–1982) *

Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah ( fa, تقی مصباح‌; born Taqi Givechi, fa, تقی گیوه‌چی), commonly known as Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi ( fa, محمدتقی مصباح‌ یزدی, 31 January 1935 – 1 January 2021) was an Iranian Shi' ...

(1935–2021) *

Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani Grand Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani ( fa, محمدتقی بهجت فومنی) (24 August 1916 – 17 May 2009) was an Iranian Twelver Shia Marja'. Biography Mohammad-Taqi was born on 24 August 1916 in the Fouman, Gilan province in ...

(1916–2009) *

Mohammad Yazdi Mohammad Yazdi ( fa, محمد یزدی, 2 July 1931 – 9 December 2020) was an Iranian conservative and principlist cleric who served as the head of Judiciary System of Iran between 1989 and 1999. In 2015, he was elected to lead Iran's Assembl ...

(1931–2020) * Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (born 1928) * Naser Makarem Shirazi (born 1927) *

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 ...

(1900–1989) *

Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi ( ar, تقي الطباطبايي القمي fa, , February 21, 1923–October 26, 2016) was an Iranian Shia marja'. He, along with Ali al-Sistani, and Ali Falsafi, were among the only three people t ...

(1923–2016) *

Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari Grand Ayatollah Yasubeddin Rastegar Jooybari (Persian: يعسوب الدين رستگار جويباري) (born 1940) is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Qom, Iran under Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Kazem Shariatma ...

(born 1940) *

Yousef Saanei Grand Ayatollah Yousef Saanei ( fa, يوسف صانعى; 16 October 1937 – 12 September 2020) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja' and politician, a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran's powerful Guardian Council from 1980 to 1983 and ...

(1937–2020) *

Zīnah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī Zīnah al-Sādāt Humāyūnī ( fa, زینت‌السادات علویه همایونی), also Alavīyah Humāyūnī, Zinatossadat Alevi Homayooni or Homayuni, (1917 - 2 July 2016) was a female religious scholar from Isfahan, Iran, who is the most ...

(born 1917) * Zohreh Sefati (born 1948)

Cyprus

* Nazim Al-Haqqani (1922–2014)

Iraq

* Abbas Modaresi Yazdi (1943–2020) *

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 ...

(1899–1992) * Ahmad Hassani Baghdadi (born 1945) * Ali al-Milani (born 1948) *

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 describ ...

(born 1930) *

Allaedin Ghoraifi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Alaaeldeen bin Musa bin Mohammed Ali Almusawi Alghurayfi (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد علاء الدين بن موسى بن محمد علي الموسوي الغريفي) (born 1945) is an Iraqi Twelve ...

(born 1945) * Fazel Maleki (born 1953) *

Hassan al-Shirazi Ayatollah Sayyid Hassan al-Husayni al-Shirazi. ( ar, حسن الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; 1935–May 2, 1980) was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, thinker, and poet. He was assassinated in Beirut at the hands of the Baathist intelligence. ...

(1935–1980) * Hussein Esmaeel al-Sadr (born 1952) * Kamal al-Haydari (born 1956) * Kazem al-Haeri (born 1938) * Mahmoud al-Sarkhi (born 1964) *

Mohammad al-Sadr Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Muhammad-Sadiq al-Sadr ( ar, '';'' 23 March 1943 – 19 February 1999) was a prominent Iraqi Shia marja'. He called for government reform and the release of detained Shia leaders. The growth of his popularity, o ...

(1943–1999) *

Mohammad al-Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Husayni al-Shirazi ( ar, محمد الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; August 31, 1928 – December 17, 2001), commonly known as Imam Shirazi, was an Iranian- Iraqi Shia marja' and political activist. Early l ...

(1928–2001) *

Mohammad Ali Tabatabaei Hassani Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Ali Tabatabai Al-Hassani ( ar, السيد محمد علي الطباطبائي الحسني; 1945 – February 2017) was an Iraqi, Twelver Shia Muslim Marja'. He studied in Shia Islamic seminaries of Karbala and ...

(1945–2017) *

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(1925–2019) *

Mohammed Ridha al-Shirazi Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Ridha al-Husayni al-Shirazi ( ar, محمد رضا الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, ; 1959 – June 1, 2008) was an Iraqi-Iranian Shia scholar, and the eldest son of Muhammad al-Shirazi. Mohammad Ridha Shirazi wa ...

(1959–2008) * Mohammad Taher Khaqani (born 1940) *

Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Taqi al-Husayni al-Modarresi ( ar, محمد تقي الحسيني المدرسي; fa, ; b. 1945) is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja' and political theorist. al-Modarresi is the author of over 400 books on matte ...

(born 1945) * Mohammad Yaqoobi (born 1960) *

Morteza Hosseini Fayaz Sayyid Murtadha Husayni al-Fayadh (9 April 1929 - 20 August 2014, Arabic: السيد مرتضى الحسيني فياض) was an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Abul-Qassim Khoei and Muhsin al-Haki ...

(1929–2014) *

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ( ar, آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr), was an Iraqi philosopher, and the ideological founde ...

(1935–1980) *

Sadiq al-Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husayni al-Shirazi ( ar, صادق الحسيني الشيرازي; fa, سید صادق حسینی شیرازی; born August 20, 1942) is an Iraqi-Iranian Shia marja'. He hails from an influential transnational cl ...

(born 1942) *

Shamsodin Vaezi Grand Ayatollah Shams al-din al-Waizi (Arabic: شمس الدين الواعظي) (born 1936) is an Iraqi Twelver Shi'a Marja'. He has studied in seminaries of Najaf, Iraq under Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei and Muhsin al-Hakim.

(born 1936) *

Shahab ud-Din Mar'ashi Najafi Shahab ad-Din Muhammad Hussain Mar'ashi Najafi (July 21, 1897 – August 29, 1990) ( ar, اية الله العظمى السيد شهابالدين الحسينى المرعشى نجفى) was an Iraqi Shia ''Grand Ayatollah'' and Marja'. Educat ...

(1897–1990)

Jordan

Umar Sulayman al-Ashqar Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar (1940 - 10 August 2012: Arabic: عمر بن سليمان الاشقر) was a Salafi Muslim Brotherhood The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Musl ...

(1930–2012) *

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

(born 1967) * Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) * Abdul Karim Khasawneh (born 1944) * Nuh al-Qudah (born 1939)

Lebanon

Abdullah al-Harari Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Al-Harariyy ( ar, عبد الله بن محمَّد بن يوسف بن عبد الله بن جامع الشَّيبي العبدري الهرري) (1906) – September 2, 2008) was a Harari muhaddith and scholar ...

(1910–2008) *

Gibril Haddad Gibril Fouad Haddad (born 1960) ( ar-at, جبريل فؤاد حداد; ) is a Lebanese-born Islamic scholar, hadith expert (''muhaddith''), author, and translator of classical Islamic texts. He was featured in the inaugural list of ''The 500 Mo ...

(born 1960) *

Hisham Kabbani Muhammad Hisham Kabbani (born 28 January 1945) is a Lebanese-American Sunni Sufi Muslim scholar belonging to the Naqsbandi Sufi Order. Kabbani has counseled and advised Muslim leaders to build community resilience against violent extremism. I ...

(born 1945) *

Mohammad 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 family. Born in Najaf, Iraq, ...

(1935–2010) *

Musa al-Sadr Musa Sadr al-Din al-Sadr ( ar, موسى صدر الدين الصدر; 4 June 1928 – disappeared 31 August 1978) was an Iranian-born Lebanese scholar and political leader who founded the Amal Movement. Born in the Chaharmardan neighborhood o ...

(1928–1978) * Sobhi Mahmassani (1909–1986)

Oman

Zohurul Hoque Zohurul Hoque ( bn, জহূরুল হক; 11 October 1926 – 18 January 2017) was an Indian Islamic scholar and doctor known for his translations of the Qur'an into the Bengali, Assamese and English languages. He later moved to Muscat in ...

(1926–2017)

Palestine

* Taqiuddin al-Nabhani (1909–1977)

Saudi Arabia

* Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz (1910–1999) *

Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais Abdul Rahman Ibn Abdul Aziz al-Sudais ( ar, عَبْدُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلْعَزِيزِ ٱلسُّدَيْسِ, ʻAbd ar-Raḥman ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAziz as-Sudais), better known as Al-Sudais, is one of the nine i ...

(born 1960) *

Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh ( ar, عبد العزيز بن عبد الله آل الشيخ ''ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Āllah Āl ash-Sheikh''; born 30 November 1940) is a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar who is the current Grand Mufti of Saud ...

(born 1943) * Abdullah Ibn Jibreen (1933–2009) * Adil al-Kalbani (born 1959) *

Ali Bin Abdur Rahman Al Huthaify Ali Bin Abdur Rahman Al Huthaify (born 22 May 1947) (Arabic; علي بن عبد الرحمن الحذيفي) is a Saudi imam and khateeb of the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, and a former Imam of Quba Mosque. His style of reciting the Qur’an in a slow a ...

(born 1947) * Muhammad Al-Munajid (born 1960) *

Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen Muhammad bin Salih al-Uthaymeen (March 9, 1929 – January 10, 2001; Arabic: محمد بن صالح العثيمين), also known as Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, was a prominent Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia. Biography Uthaymeen was born on ...

(1925–2001) * Muhammad Muhsin Khan (born 1927) *

Rabee al-Madkhali Rabīʿ bin Hādī ʿUmayr al Madkhalī ( ar, ربيع بن هادي عمير المدخلي), is a former head of the Sunnah Studies Department at the Islamic University of Madinah. He is a Salafi Muslim scholar and the founder of Madkhalism ...

(born 1931) *

Saleh Al-Fawzan Saleh Al-Fawzan ( ar, صالح بن فوزان الفوزان; born 1933) is an Islamic scholar and has been a member of several high religious bodies in Saudi Arabia. He is considered to be the most senior scholar of Islam in Saudi Arabia. His s ...

(born 1933) *

Saud Al-Shuraim Saud ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Shuraim (Arabic: سعود بن ابراهيم بن محمد الشريم; born 19 January 1964), is one of the prayer leaders and Friday preachers at the Grand Mosque Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. A Quranic reciter ...

(born 1964)

Syria

Ahmed Kuftaro Ahmed Kuftaro or Ahmad Kaftaru (Arabic: أحمد كفتارو; December 1915 – 1 September 2004) was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of ...

(1915–2004) * Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (1930-2021) *

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

(born 1963) *

Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy (born 1970) is a Syrian-born American Islamic scholar, theologian, and medical doctor. He has been listed among The 500 Most Influential Muslims in a publication compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Cent ...

(born 1966) *

Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani Muhammad b. al-Haj Nuh b. Nijati b. Adam al-Ishqudri al-Albani al-Arnauti ( ar, مُحَمَّد نَاصِر ٱلدِّيْن ٱلْأَلْبَانِي الأرنؤوط), better known simply as Al-Albani (August 16, 1914 – October 2, 1999), ...

(1914–1999) *

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

(1929–2013) * Munira al-Qubaysi (born 1933)

Turkey

Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü (born February 27, 1965), known colloquially as Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca, is a Turkish televangelist and hafiz. He is a follower of Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu in İsmailağa İsmailağa Jamia or İsmail Ağa Jamia ( tr, İsmailağ ...

(born 1965) *

Ali Bardakoğlu Ali Bardakoğlu (born 1952) served as the president of the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( tr, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı) of Turkey between 2003 and 2010. Background Ali Bardakoğlu was born in 1952 in Tosya in the province of Kastamonu. ...

(born 1952) *

Ali Erbaş Ali Erbaş (born in 1961 in Kabadüz, Ordu Province, Turkey) is a Turkish Muslim scholar and president of Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in Turkey. Education Erbaş attended elementary school in Yeşilyurt, and graduated from t ...

(born 1961) *

Cemalnur Sargut Cemalnur Sargut is a Turkish Sufi, a leader of the Rifa'i order, author, and Islamic scholar. Biography Cemalnur Sargut was born to Meskure Sargut and Omer Faruk Sargut in 1952 in Istanbul. Sargut's mother was a disciple of Turkish Sufi m ...

(born 1962) *

Fethullah Gülen Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish Islamic scholar, preacher, and a one-time opinion leader, as de facto leader of the Gülen movement. Gülen is designated an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Isl ...

(born 1941) * Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal (born 1963) * Hüseyin Hilmi Işık (1911-2001) * Mahmud Esad Coşan (1938–2001) * Mahmut Ustaosmanoğlu (1929-2022) * Mehmed Fatih Çıtlak (born 1967) *

Mehmet Görmez Mehmet Görmez (born 1959) is the former President of the Presidency of Religious Affairs ( tr, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı from November 2010 to 31 July 2017, commonly known as ''Diyanet'') and as such legally the highest level Islamic schol ...

(born 1959) * Mustafa Çağrıcı (born 1950) * Muzaffer Ozak (1916–1985) * Nazim Al-Haqqani (1922–2014) * Osman Nuri Topbaş (born 1942) *

Ömer Tuğrul İnançer Ömer Tuğrul İnançer (5 May 1946, Bursa - 4 September 2022, Istanbul) was a Turkish lawyer, Sufi musician, and Shaykh of the Jerrahi Order. He retired from his duty as the founding general manager of the Istanbul Historical Turkish Music Ense ...

(1946-2022) * Süleyman Ateş (born 1933) * Yaşar Nuri Öztürk (1951-2016)

Yemen

Abdul Majeed al-Zindani Abdul Majeed al-Zindani (; born in 1942 in Ibb, Yemen) is a leading Islamist, founder and head of the Iman University in Yemen, head of the Yemeni Muslim Brotherhood political movement and founder of the Commission on Scientific Signs in th ...

(born 1942) * Habib Ali al-Jifri (born 1971) * Habib Umar bin Hafiz (born 1963) *

Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i Muqbil bin Hadi bin Muqbil bin Qa’idah al-Hamdani al-Wadi’i al-Khallali (1933 – 21 July 2001) ( ar, مقبل بن هادي الوادعي) was an Islamic scholar and a major proponent of Quietist Salafism in Yemen. He was the founder of a ...

(1933–2001) * Yahya al-Hajuri

South Asia

Bangladesh

* Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali (1913–2008) *

Abdul Halim Bukhari Shah Abdul Halim Bukhari ( bn, শাহ আব্দুল হালিম বুখারী; January 1945 – 21 June 2022) was a Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator, religious writer and spiritual figure. He is the ...

(born 1945) *

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880 – 17 November 1976), often shortened as Maulana Bhashani, was a Bengali politician. His political tenure spanned the British colonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh periods. Maulana Bhashani was po ...

(1880–1976) *

Abdul Haque Faridi Abul Faraḥ Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ḥaque Farīdī (25 May 1903 – 5 February 1996) was a Bangladeshi educator and author. In recognition of his contributions in the field of linguistics, he was awarded a Bangla Academy Fellowship. Faridi was th ...

(1903–1996) * Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016) *

Abdul Khaleque Mondal Abdul Khaleque Mondal (1 August 1944 – 23 July 2023) was a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician who was a Jatiya Sangsad member, representing the Satkhira-2 constituency from 2001 to 2006. On 24 March 2022, he was sentenced to death for war ...

(born 1944) *

Abdul Malek Halim Maulana Abdul Malek Halim ( bn, আল্লামা আব্দুল মালেক হালিম) is a prominent Islamic scholar of Bangladesh and ''Nayeb-e Ameer'' of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh. Abdul Malek Halim is the pioneer of ''Qawm ...

Abdul Matin Chowdhury Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1 May 1921 – 24 June 1981) was a Bangladeshi academic and physicist. He served as the 14th Vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka. Education Chowdhury passed entrance examination from Arunchandra High School in No ...

(1915–1990) *

Abdur Rahim ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ( ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الرحيم) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''ʻabd'', ''al-Raḥīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to ...

(1918–1987) * Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920–2015) *

Abdur Rahman Kashgarhi Abū az-Zibriqān ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Dāmullā al-Kāshgharī an-Nadwī ( ar, أبو الزبرقان عبد الرحمن بن عبد الهادي داملا الكاشغري الندوي; 15 September 1912 – March 1971), or ...

(d. 1971) *

Abdus Salam Chatgami Abdus Salam Chatgami ( bn, আব্দুস সালাম চাটগামী, ur, ; 1943 – 8 September 2021) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, educator, writer and researcher. He was considered one of the prominent Islamic scholars o ...

(1943–2021) * Abdus Sobhan (1936–2020) *

Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh ( bn, আবু জাফর মোহাম্মদ সালেহ; 1915 – 13 February 1990), popularly known as the Pir of Sarsina, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar. He was said to have contributed to the establis ...

(1915–1990) *

A F M Khalid Hossain Abul Fayez Muhammad Khalid Hossain ( bn, আবুল ফয়েজ মুহাম্মদ খালিদ হোসেন; born 2 February 1959), popularly known as Dr. A F M Khalid Hossain, is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educat ...

(born 1959) *

Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri ( bn, আহমদ আলী এনায়েতপুরী) was a Bengali writer, journalist, and politician. Early life and education Ahmed Ali was born on 21 January 1898, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of ...

(1898–1959) * Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928–2005) *

Athar Ali Bengali Athar Ali ( bn, আতহার আলী; 1891-1976) was a Bangladeshi Islamic activist, author, teacher and politician. He participated in the Indian independence movement, and was former president of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. Ali was also a '' ...

(1891–1976) *

Azizul Haq Mufti Azizul Haq (; 1903 — 1961) was an Islamic scholar and social reformer from present-day Bangladesh. He was the founder of Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya, Al-Jamiah al-Islamiyyah Patiya and served as its first chancellor. Early life and educa ...

(1903–1961) * Azizul Haque (1919–2012) * Deen Muhammad Khan (1900–1974) *

Delwar Hossain Sayeedi Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, former politician and lecturer, who served as a Member of Parliament representing the Pirojpur-1, Barisal, constituency during 1996–2006. He has been arrested in 2013, after wh ...

(born 1940) *

Farid Uddin Chowdhury Farid Uddin Chowdhury ( bn, ফরিদ উদ্দিন চৌধুরী; born 25 December 1947) is a teacher, politician and businessman. He was the former Member of Parliament for the Sylhet-5 constituency from 2001 to 2008, representing ...

(b. 1947) * Fazlul Karim (1935–2006) *

Fazlul Haque Amini Faḍl al-Ḥaqq ibn Wājid ad-Dīn al-Amīnī ( ar, فضل الحق بن واجد الدين الأميني; 194512 December 2012), or simply Fazlul Hoque Amini ( bn, ফজলুল হক আমিনী) was an Islamic scholar and politician ...

(1945–2012) * Gulamur Rahman (1865–1937) *

Hafezzi Huzur Muḥammadullāh ibn Idrīs ibn Akram ad-Dīn al-Miyānjī ( ar, محمد الله بن إدريس بن أكرم الدين الميانجي; 1895 - 6 May 1987), commonly known as Hafezzī Huzūr ( ar, حافظجي حضور, bn, হাফেজ� ...

(1895–1997) *

Ibrahim Chatuli Ibrahim Ali Chatuli ( bn, ইব্রাহীম আলী চতুলী; 1894–1984) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician and social reformer. He was the Education Minister of Assam Legislative Council, and an elected Member of th ...

(1894–1984) * Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943) * Izharul Islam *

Junaid Babunagari Muḥammad Junaid, popularly known as Junaid Babunagari ( bn, জুনায়েদ বাবুনগরী; 8 October 1953 – 19 August 2021), was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, educator, writer, researcher, Islamic speaker and s ...

(1955–2021) *

Khwaja Yunus Ali Yunus Ali Enayetpuri ( ar, يونس علي العنايتفوري, bn, ইউনুস আলী এনায়েতপুরী; 1886–1951), or simply Khwaja Enayetpuri , was a Sufi saint. Personal life Born in 1886, he studied from the ...

(1886–1951) *

Mahfuzul Haque Maḥfūẓ al-Ḥaqq ibn ʿAzīz al-Ḥaqq ibn Irshād ʿAlī ad-Dākawī ( ar, محفوظ الحق بن عزيز الحق بن إرشاد علي الداكوي; born November 1969), or simply Mahfuzul Haque ( bn, মাহফুজুল হক ...

(born 1969) * Mahmudul Hasan (born 1950) * Mamunul Haque (born 1973) * Mohammad Akram Khan (1868–1969) *

Muhammad Abdul Malek Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Mālik ibn Shams al-Ḥaqq ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Ummīd ʿAlī al-Kumillāʾī ( ar, محمد عبد المالك بن شمس الحق بن عبد الرحمن بن أميد علي الكملائي; born 29 August 1969), ...

(born 1969) * Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (born 1948) *

Muhammad Faizullah Muḥammad Fayḍ Allāh ibn Hidāyat ʿAlī al-Islāmābādī ( ar, محمد فيض الله بن هداية علي الإسلام آبادي, 1890–1976), popularly known as Mufti Faizullah ( bn, মুফতি ফয়জুল্লাহ) ...

(1892–1976) *

Muhammad Shahidullah Muhammad Shahidullah ( bn, মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ; 10 July 1885 – 13 July 1969) was a Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer. In 2004, he was ranked number 16 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Benga ...

(1885–1969) *

Muhammad Wakkas Muḥammad Waqqāṣ ibn Muḥammad Ismāʿīl al-Jasarī ( ar, محمد وقاص بن محمد إسماعيل الجسري; 15 January 1952 – 31 March 2021), or simply known as Muhammad Wakkas ( bn, মুহাম্মদ ওয়াক্ ...

(1952–2021) * Muhibbullah Babunagari (born 1935) *

Muhiuddin Khan Muhiuddin Khan ( bn, মুহিউদ্দিন খান; 1935–2016) was an Islamic scholar from Bangladesh and editor of ''Monthly Madina''. Khan was also a Quranic commentator, journalist, poet, writer and translator. He translated for t ...

(1935–2016) *

Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri Mushāhid Aḥmad Bāyampūrī ( bn, মুশাহিদ আহমদ বায়মপুরী, ar, مشاهد أحمد البايمفوري; 1907–1971) was a Pakistanis, Pakistani Bengali Muslim theologian, teacher, writer and politician ...

(1907–1971) *

Nur Hossain Kasemi Nur Hossain Kasemi ( bn, নূর হুসাইন কাসেমী; 10 January 1945 – 13 December 2020) was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician, educator, religious speaker and spiritual figure. He was the secretary genera ...

(1945–2020) * Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005) * Nurul Islam Farooqi (died 2014) * Nurul Islam Jihadi (born 1948) *

Nurul Islam Olipuri Nurul Islam Olipuri ( bn, নূরুল ইসলাম ওলীপুরী) is an Islamic scholar of Bangladesh. Olipuri is best known for his interpretation of the Qur'an. Early life and education Nurul Islam was born in 1955 in the villa ...

(born 1955) *

Obaidul Haque Obaidul Haque ( bn, ওবায়দুল হক) was a politician, teacher and the former Member of Parliament of Sylhet-5. Early life and education Haque was born on 2 January 1934 into a Bengali Muslim in the village of Wazirpur in Khola ...

(1934–2008) * Obaidullah Hamzah (born 1972) * Ruhul Amin (b. 1962) * Sayed Muhammad Amimul Ehasan Barkati (1911–1974) *

Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari ( bn, সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভাণ্ডারী) is the chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation and the incumbent Member of Parliament of the Chittagong-2 constituency. ...

(b. 1959) *

Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri ( bn, সৈয়দ রশীদ আহমদ জৌনপুরী; 1889–2001) was a Sufi saint, author, scholar of Hadith and Quran, and Muslim missionary in Bangladesh. He was influenced by Ala Imam Ahmed Raza ...

(1889–2001) *

Sajidur Rahman Sajidur Rahman (born 30 December 1964) is a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educator. He is the Secretary General of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and Co-chairman of Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh, the highest authority of Qawmi Madra ...

(b. 1964) * Sayed Kamaluddin Zafree (born 1945) *

Shah Ahmad Hasan Aḥmad Ḥasan ibn Waṣī ar-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamīd ʿAlī al-Jīrawī ( ar, أحمد حسن بن وصي الرحمن بن حامد علي الجيروي; 1882–1967), popularly known as Shah Ahmad Hasan ( bn, শাহ আহমদ হাস� ...

(1882–1967) *

Shah Ahmad Shafi Shah Ahmad Shafi ( bn, শাহ আহমদ শফী) (1916 – 18 September 2020) was a Bangladeshi Sunni Islamic scholar, the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Rector of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Hathazari and also the ch ...

(1916–2020) * Shahidul Islam (born 1960) *

Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury ( bn, শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী; born 1985) is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sunamganj-3 constituency during 2005–2006. He was elected a membe ...

(b. 1985) *

Shamsul Haque Faridpuri Shams al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Chirāgh ʿAlī al-Farīdfūrī ( ar, شمس الحق بن محمد عبد الله بن تشراغ علي الفريدفوري), or simply known as Shamsul Haque Faridpuri ( bn, শামসু� ...

(1896–1969) *

Shamsul Huda Panchbagi Shamsul Huda Panchbagi ( bn, শামছুল হুদা পাঁচবাগী; 1897 – 24 September 1988) was an Islamic scholar and politician from Bangladesh. He was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly and later founded the Emar ...

(1897–1988) * Sultan Zauq Nadvi (born 1939) * Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006) * Syed Mohammad Saifur Rahman (born 1916) *

Syed Rezaul Karim Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim ( bn, সৈয়দ মুহাম্মদ রেজাউল করিম; born: 1 February 1971), also known by his title Charmonai Pir, is a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician, religious speaker and ...

(born 1971) *

Ubaidul Haq Ubaidul Haq ( bn, উবায়দুল হক; 2 May 1928- 6 October 2007), also spelt Obaidul Haq ( bn, ওবাইবদুল হক), was a Bangladeshi teacher, muhaddith, mufassir and writer. He was the former khatib of the national mo ...

(1928–2007) * Zia Uddin (born 1941)

India

Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni ʿAbd al-Ḥāmid al-Qādirī al-Badāyūnī ( ur, ; November 11, 1898 – July 20, 1970) was a traditional Islamic scholar, Sufi master, poet, and leader from Pakistan. He was the founder of the Islamic college Jamia-Talimat-e-Islamiya locate ...

(1898–1970) * Abdul Haq Azmi (1928–2016) *

Abdul Jalil Choudhury ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Aṣghar Choudhury al-Badarfūrī ( ar, عبد الجليل بن أصغر تشودهري البدرفوري; 19 December 1989), or simply Abdul Jalil Choudhury Badarpuri ( bn, আব্দুল জলিল চৌধুরী ...

(1925-1989) * Abdul Khaliq Sambhali (1950–2021) * Abdul Rashid Dawoodi (born 1979) * Abdul Razzaq (1932–2021) *

Anzar Shah Kashmiri Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927-2008) was an Indian Islamic scholar who established the Jamia Imam Anwar Shah and co-founded the Darul Uloom Waqf in Deoband. Shah was an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was youngest son of Hanafi scholar A ...

(1927–2008) * Ameen Mian Qaudri * Atiqur Rahman Usmani (1901–1984) *

Bashir al-Najafi Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Basheer Hussain Najafi ( ar, آية الله العظمى بشير النجفي) (born 1942) is a Pakistani Twelver Shia Marja' and one of the Four Grand Ayatollahs of Najaf, Iraq. He was born in Jalandhar, a city in then ...

(born 1942) * Bashir-ud-din Farooqi (1934–2019) * E. K. Aboobacker Musliyar (1914–1996) * Faizul Waheed (1966–2021) *

Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri Fuzail Ahmad Nāsirī (born 13 May 1978) is an Indian Islamic scholar, Urdu writer and poet, who is a professor of hadith and vice-administrator of education at the Jamia Imam Muhammad Anwar Shah. He is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. His bo ...

(born 1978) * Habibur Rahman Khairabadi (born 1933) * Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (1910–1987) * Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi (1909–1992) * Hashmi Miya (born 1947) * Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani (1942–2006) *

Kalbe Abid Syed Kalbe Abid Naqvi (مولانا سيد كلب عابد نقوى) was a mujtahid from Lucknow, India who preached Shia Islam. His father was Syed Kalbe Hussain and grandfather was Syed Aqa Hasan. He was an elder brother of '' Dr. Kalbe Sadiq ...

(1923–1986) * Kalbe Sadiq (1939–2020) * Kanniyath Ahmed Musliyar (1900–1993) * Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (born 1931) *

Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Khalid Saifullah Rahmani (born November 1956) is an Indian Muslim scholar, author and jurist who serves as the general secretary of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He is the general secretary of Islamic Fiqh Academy, India, Islamic Fiqh ...

(born 1956) * Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi * Muhammad Salim Qasmi (1926–2018) * Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi (born 1954) *

Muhammad Taqi Amini Muhammad Taqi Amīni ( 5 May 1926 – 21 January 1991) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, Urdu author and the dean of Theology faculty of Aligarh Muslim University. He is known for his works on Islamic jurisprudence, and his book ...

(1926–1991) *

Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri Muhammad Yunus Jaunpuri (2 October 1937 – 11 July 2017) was an Indian Islamic hadith scholar who served as the senior professor of hadith at the Mazahir Uloom in Saharanpur. He was one of the senior students and disciples of Muhammad Zakariyy ...

(1937–2017) * Minnatullah Rahmani (1913–1991) * Mufti Syed Ziauddin Naqshbandi * Muhammad Madni Ashraf Ashrafi Al-Jilani (born 1938) *

Mujahidul Islam Qasmi Mujahidul Islam Qasmi (1936–4 April 2002) was an Indian Mufti, Qadhi and Islamic scholar, founder of Islamic Fiqh Academy. He served as the President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Biography Qasmi was born in 1936 in Darbhanga, Bri ...

(1936–2002) *

Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri (1892–1981) was an Indian Muslim scholar and author, and leader of the Sunni Barelvi movement following the death of its founder, his father Ahmed Raza Khan. He was known as ''Mufti-Azam-i-Hind'' to his followers. ...

Nazir Ahmad Qasmi Nazir Ahmad Qasmi (born 20 June 1964) is a Kashmiri Sunni Islamic scholar and jurist who serves as the Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Raheemiyyah. He is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband and the Imārat-e-Sharia; and a member of the All India Musli ...

(born 1 June 1965) * Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926–2021) * Noor Alam Khalil Amini (1952–2021) *

Qamaruzzaman Azmi Qamaruzzaman Azmi (born 23 March 1946), also known as Allama Azmi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, philosopher and speaker. He is president of the World Islamic Mission. From 2011 to 2021, he was listed in The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the ...

* Rafiq Ahmad Pampori (born 1956) *

Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi (born 22 July 1957) is a Kashmiri Islamic scholar, founder and rector of Darul Uloom Raheemiyyah, one of the largest Islamic seminaries in Kashmir. He is a senior member of the managing committee of Darul Uloom Deoband, fou ...

(born 1956) * Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908–1985) *

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 ...

(1927–2002) *

Salman Mazahiri Salman Mazahiri (10 October 1946 – 20 July 2020) was an Indian Muslim scholar who served as chancellor of Mazahir Uloom Jadeed. Early life and education Mazahiri was born on 10 October 1946. Aged 15, he entered Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur in ...

(1946–2020) *

Sayyid Abdurahman Imbichikoya Thangal Al-Aydarusi Al-Azhari Sayyid Abdurahman Imbichikoya Thangal Al-Aydarusi Al-Azhari ( السيد عبد الرحمان العيدروس الأزهري تنكل), also known as Azhari Thangal (അസ്ഹരി തങ്ങള്‍) was the President of Samastha Ke ...

(1924–2015) * Sayyid Ibraheem Khaleel Al Bukhari (born 1964) * Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya Shaliyathi * Shakir Ali Noori * Shams Naved Usmani (1931–1993) *

Syed Ahmad Hashmi Syed Ahmad Hashmi (17 January 1932 - 4 November 2001) was an Indian Muslim scholar and politician who served as the seventh general secretary of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind and the chairman of Passenger Amenities Committee. He was a member of the Rajya ...

(1932–2001) *

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, comm ...

(born 1964) * Syed Hamidul Hasan * Syed Mohammed Mukhtar Ashraf (1916-1996) *

Syed Muhammedali Shihab Thangal Mohammedali Shihab Thangal (4 May 1936 – 1 August 2009), known with the honorific prefix Sayed, was an Indian community leader, Islamic scholar and politician from Kerala. He is sometimes regarded as "the most important Mappila leader" of mode ...

(1936–2009) * Syed Zafrul Hasan Rizvi (1911–1983) * Usman Mansoorpuri (1944–2021) *

Wahiduddin Khan Wahiduddin Khan (1 January 1925 – 21 April 2021), known with the honorific "Maulana", was an Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist and author known for having written a commentary on the Quran and having translated it into contemporary E ...

(1925–2021) *

Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui (also known as Yasin Mazhar Siddique Nadvi) (26 December 1944 – 15 September 2020) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and historian who served as director of the Institute of Islamic Studies of Aligarh Muslim University. ...

(1944–2020) * Zayn al-Abidin Sajjad Meerthi (1910–1991) * Zeeshan Haider Jawadi (1938–2000) *

Ziauddin Madani Ziauddin Madani ( ur, ) was a Sufi also known as Qutb-e-Madina. He lived most of his life in Medina. He was born in 1877 in Sialkot and died on 2 October 1981. He was buried in Al-Baqi. He was an Islamic scholar and disciple of Imam Ahmad R ...

* Ziaul Mustafa Razvi Qadri

Pakistan

Abdur Razzaq Iskander Abdur Razzaq Iskander (1935 – 30 June 2021; ur, ) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and writer. He was the chancellor and senior hadith-professor of Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, emir of the Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat and the president o ...

(1935–2021) * Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri (1940–2021) * Abu Yahya (born 1969) *

Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi Abdus Sattar Khan Niazi (مولاناعبدالستارخان نیازی) (1 October 1915 – 2 May 2001) was a Pakistani religious and political leader. Early life He was born on 1 October 1915 at Isakhel in Mianwali District, Punjab, B ...

(1915–2001) *

Alauddin Siddiqui Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui ( ur, ; 1 January 1938 – 3 February 2017) was an Islamic Sufism, Sufi scholar and social personality. He appeared in islamic educational programmes on ARY Qtv, ARY Q TV and on NOOR TV. He established Madrasa, mad ...

(1936–2017) * Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997) *

Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan ( ur, , ; born 31 December 1934 in Noorpur Sethi, British India – died 7 December 2017 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan) was an Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the Naqshbandia Owaisiah order of Sufism. He belonge ...

(1934–2017) *

Ehsan Elahi Zaheer Ehsan Elahi Zaheer ( ur, احسان الہی ظہیر) (31 May 1945 – 30 March 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar. He was the founder of Jamiat Ahle Hadith. He died from an assassin's bomb blast in 1987. He was taken to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ...

(1940-1987) * Fazal-ur-Rehman (born 1953) *

Fateh Muhammad Panipati Fateh Muhammad Panipati (18 January 1905 – 16 April 1987) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar who worked in the field of qira'at (Qur'an recitation methods). He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband and wrote books including ''Al-Qurrah al-Marḍ ...

(1905–1987) * Ghulam Ali Okarvi (1919–2000) * Ghulam Ahmed Perwez (1903–1985) *

Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Ghaznavi Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Ghaznavi (1902-1975, ur, ) was a Sufi scholar and first custodian of Nerian Sharif. He was born in 1902 in Ghazni , Afghanistan. His father's name was Mohammad Akbar Khan. He died on Friday 11 April 1975 after the Jummah ...

(1902–1975) *

Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar (1928 – 2 June 2013) was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, philanthropist and a Sufi mentor. He established the Jamiah Ashraful Madrāris in Karachi. He was an alumnus of the State Unani Medical College Allahabad ...

(1928–2013) * Ilyas Qadri (12 July 1950) * Israr Ahmed (1932–2010) * Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (born 1952) *

Khadim Hussain Rizvi Khadim Hussain Rizvi ( ur, ; 22 May 1966 – 19 November 2020) was a Pakistani Islamic author and the founder of Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a political-religious organization founded in 2015, known to protest against any change to Pakistan's blasphe ...

(1966-2020) * Khalid Masud (1935–2003) * Khurshid Ahmad (born 1932) * Muhammad Adil Khan (died 2020) *

Muhammad Ali Mirza Muhammad Ali Mirza, commonly known as Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza (; born 4 October 1977) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and commentator. Biography Muhammad Ali Mirza was born on 4 October 1977 in Jhelum, a city in Punjab, Pakistan. He is a 19t ...

(born 1977) * Muhammad Ishaq Madni (1935-28 August 2013) * Muhammad Rafi Usmani (born 1936) * Muhammad Raza Saqib Mustafai (born 1972) *

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri ( ur, ‎; born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Pakistan Awami Tehreek. He was also a professor of international co ...

(born 1951) *

Muhammad Taqi Usmani Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 5 October 1943) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and former judge who is the current president of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia and the vice president and Hadith professor of the Darul Uloom Karachi. An intellectual ...

(born 1949) *

Muneeb-ur-Rehman Muḥammad Muneeb-ur-Rehman ( Munīb-ur-Rehmān; born ) is a Pakistani Mufti and former chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee. He is a professor at Jinnah University for Women, Member of National Academic Council of Institute of Policy Studies, H ...

(born 1945) *

Nizamuddin Shamzai Nizamuddin Shamzai (12 July 1952 – 30 May 2004) was a pro-Taliban Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar and the senior professor of hadith at the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia. He was considered "one of the most important Deobandi figures in Pakistan" an ...

(12 July 1952 – 30 May 2004) * Rasheed Turabi (1908–1973) * Shah Ahmad Noorani (1926–2003) * Shah Turab ul Haq (1944–2016) * Syed Adnan Kakakhail (born 1975) * Syed Jawad Naqvi (born 1952) * Syed Shehanshah Hussain Naqvi (born 1974) * Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri (1941–1993) *

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 ...

(1939–2020) * Tariq Jamil (born 1953) *

Tariq Masood Tariq Masood (commonly known as Mufti Tariq Masood, ur, ; born 4 March 1975) is a Pakistani Deobandi author and Islamic scholar, who teaches at the Jamia Tur Rasheed seminary in Karachi. He has authored books Including ''Aik se Za'id Shadiy ...

(born 1975) *

Uzair Gul Peshawari Uzair Gul Peshawari (1886 – 17 November 1989) was an Islamic scholar and an activist of the Indian freedom struggle against British rule who actively participated in the Silk Letter Movement. He was an alumnus of the Darul Uloom Deoband and s ...

(died 17 November 1989) *

Zar Wali Khan Mufti Zar Wali Khan (1953 – 7 December 2020), was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and Friday sermon preacher. He was the founder and the principal of Jamia Ahsan Ul Uloom. Biography Khan was born in Jehangira and studied at Jamia Uloom- ...

(1953–2020)

Indonesia

Abdurrahman Wahid Abdurrahman Wahid ( ; born Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil; 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), though more colloquially known as Gus Dur (), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the 4th president of Indonesia, fr ...

(1940–2009) *

B.J. Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (; 25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh vice preside ...

(1936-2019) *

Fakih Usman Fakih Usman (Alternatively spelled as Faqih Usman; ; 2 March 1904 – 3 October 1968) was an Indonesian Islamic leader and politician of the Masyumi Party. He twice served as the Ministry of Religious Affairs (Indonesia), Minister of Relig ...

(1904–1968) *

Hamka Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known by his pen name Hamka (17 February 1908 – 24 July 1981) was an Indonesian ʿālim, philosopher, writer, lecturer, politician and journalist. First affiliated with the Masyumi Party, until it was d ...

(1908–1981) * Ilyas Ruhiat (1934–2007) *

Maria Ulfah Maria Ulfah ( ar, ماريا أولفا; born 21 December 1955) is an Indonesian qāriʾah (reciter of the Quran) and manager of the Central Institute for the Development of Quranic Recitation. She is the winner of two Indonesian national Qur'an ...

(born 1955) *

Mas Mansoer Mas Mansoer (EYD: Mas Mansur; 25 June 1896 – 25 April 1946) was an Indonesian religious leader who served as the 4th chairman of Muhammadiyah from 1937 to 1942. He was declared a national hero by President Sukarno in 1964. Biography Mas ...

(1896–1946) *

Mohammad Natsir Mohammad Natsir (17 July 19086 February 1993) was an Islamic scholar and politician. He was Indonesia's fifth prime minister. After moving to Bandung from his hometown Solok, West Sumatra for senior high school, Natsir studied Islamic doctrine e ...

(1908–1993) *

Quraish Shihab Muhammad Quraish Shihab ( ar, محمّد قريش شهاب; '; February 16, 1944) is an Indonesian Arab-Bugis Muslim scholar in the sciences of the Qur'an, an author, an Academic Scholar, and former Minister of Religious Affairs in the Fourth D ...

(born 1944) *

Siti Noordjannah Djohantini Siti Noordjannah Djohantini (born 15 August 1958) is a female Islamic scholar from Indonesia currently serving her second term as the leader of Aisyiyah, Indonesia's first all-female Muslim organization. She was elected to her second term as leade ...

(born 1958) *

Siti Chamamah Soeratno Siti Chamamah Soeratno is a female Islamic scholar from Indonesia and the former leader of Aisyiyah, Indonesia's first all-female Muslim organization. She is also the former dean of Muhammadiyah University of Malang and an expert on Indonesian lit ...

(born 1941)

Malaysia

Abdul Hadi Awang Abdul Hadi bin Awang ( Jawi: عبدالهادي بن اواڠ; born 20 October 1947) is a Malaysian politician and religious teacher who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Marang since October 1990, 7th President of the Malaysian ...

(born 1947) * Asri Zainul Abidin (born 1971) *

Haron Din Haron bin Din ( Jawi: هارون بن دين‎; 18 August 1941 – 15 September 2016) was a Malaysian politician and Muslim cleric. He was the 3rd Spiritual Leader of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from March 2015 after the death of h ...

(1940–2016) * Nenney Shushaidah Binti Shamsuddin (born 1975) * Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat (1931–2015) * Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas (born 1931) * Zailan Morris *

Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri ( Jawi: ذوالكفل محمد البكري; born 16 January 1969) is a Malaysian Islamic scholar. He served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in charge of Religious Affairs in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) ...

(born 1969)

Central Asia

Uzbekistan

Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf Muhammad Sadik Muhammad Yusuf (15 April 1952 - 10 March 2015) was an Uzbekistani Muslim scholar born in the region of Andijan. Life Muhammad Sadik was the son of Muhammad-Yusuf (who died in 2004), who was the son of Muhammad-Ali, a scholar from ...

(1952–2015)

East Asia

China

Du Shuzhen Du Shuzhen (; born 1924), also known as Aminah, is a Chinese imam. With the help of her uncle and a family friend, both of whom were imams based in Shanghai and Henan respectively, she learned to read the Quran in Arabic. Du carried out her fir ...

(born 1924) *

Muhammad Ma Jian Muhammad Ma Jian (; ar, محمد ماكين الصيني '; 1906–1978) was a Hui-Chinese Islamic scholar and translator, known for translating the Qur'an into Chinese and stressing compatibility between Marxism and Islam. Early years Ma w ...

(1906–1978)

Europe

The Balkans

Abdul Qader Arnaoot Abdul-Qader Arnaout, ( ar, عبد القادر الأرناؤوط, 1928–26 November 2004), born ''Kadri Sokoli'' was an Albanian Islamic scholar who specialised in the fields of hadith and fiqh. Biography Arnaoot received his initial religious ...

(1928–2004) Kosovo *

(1914–1999) Albania * Mustafa Cerić (born 1952) Bosnia and Herzegovina * Shefqet Krasniqi (born 1966) Kosovo * Shuaib Al Arna'ut (1928-2016) Albania * Vehbi Sulejman Gavoçi (1923-2013) Albania

Western Europe

Austria

* Adnan Ibrahim (born 1966) Vienna *

Muhammad Asad Muhammad Asad, ( ar, محمد أسد , ur, , born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Pakistani journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, political theorist and diplomat. He was a Jew but, later conve ...

(1900–1992)

Germany

Ahmad Milad Karimi Ahmad Milad Karimi (born February 10, 1979) is an Afghan-born German philosopher of religion, scholar of Islam, translator of the Koran, and poet. Karimi is professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Münster. Early life Ahmad Milad Ka ...

(born 1979) * Halima Krausen (born 1949)

Ireland

Umar Al-Qadri Umar Al-Qadri is a Sunni Islamic scholar and sheikh based in Ireland who was born to a Pakistani Muslim scholarly family. His father is Sunni Muslim scholar Mehr Ali Qadri, who arrived in the late 1970s in The Hague, Netherlands, to serve as an ...

(born 1982) Dublin

United Kingdom

* Abdul Qayum (born 1960) London *

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera (born 1974) is a Sunni Islamic scholar, author, and founder of Whitethread Institute and Zamzam Academy. He authored ''Fiqh al-Imam'' and ''Healthy Muslim Marriage''. He featured in the 2020 edition of The 500 Mo ...

(born 1974) *

Abu-Abdullah Adelabu Abdul-Fattah Abu-Abdullah Taiye Ejire Adelabu ( ar, عبد الفتّاح أبو عبد الله تَائيي أيجيري أديلابو) or simply Sheikh Adelabu (), also known as Al-Afriqi () or Shaykh Al-Afriqi () is a Nigeria-born British M ...

London * Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq (born 1971) Leicester * Ajmal Masroor (born 1971) London *

Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari ( ar, أحمد سعد الأزهري), is an Egyptian born, British Islamic scholar, and is the founder of the Ihsan Institute. He is an advocate of teaching traditional Islamic sciences; which he has taught in various parts ...

(born 1978) London *

Haifaa Jawad Haifaa Jawad is an Iraqi Muslim scholar and Honorary Senior Lecturer of theology and religion at the University of Birmingham. Biography Haifaa Jawad received her BA and MA degrees from Baghdad University and her PhD from the University of Exet ...

Birmingham *

Haitham al-Haddad Haitham al-Haddad is a British Muslim television presenter of Palestinian origin. Al-Haddad sits on the boards of advisors for Islamic organisations in the United Kingdom, including the Islamic Sharia Council. He is the chair and operations advis ...

(born 1971) London *

Ibrahim Mogra Ibrahim Mogra is an imam from Leicester and former Assistant Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain. Early life Mogra was born in 1965 into a family of Gujarati Indian origin and emigrated to the UK at the age of 18 to study and ...

(born 1965) Leicester * Joel Hayward (born 1964) London * Khurshid Ahmad (scholar) (born 1932) Leicester *

Martin Lings Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Sh ...

(1909–2005) Manchester *

Mohammad Akram Nadwi Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c. 1963) is an Islamic scholar and the Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He is the author of the 43 vo ...

(born 1964) Oxford * Muhammad Abdul Bari (born 1953) London *

Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari is a British Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, mufti, researcher, founder and chief-Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester and a teacher at Jamiah Uloom-ul-Quran Leicester. He has authored a number of books including ''Islamic ...

, Leicester * Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada (born 1946) Nottinghamshire *

Musharraf Hussain Musharraf Hussain is a British-Pakistani born scientist, educator and religious scholar in Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. Biography Musharraf Hussain is the Chief Executive of the Karimia institute Nottingham, an author and the Chief Ed ...

(born 1962) Nottingham * Nahiem Ajmal (born 1979) * Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood (born 1942) London *

Shabbir Akhtar Shabbir Akhtar is a British Muslim philosopher, poet, researcher, writer and multilingual scholar. He is on the Faculty of Theology and Religions at the University of Oxford. His interests include political Islam, Quranic exegesis, revival of ...

(born 1960) Bradford * Timothy Winter (born 1960) London * Yasser Al-Habib (born 1979) *

Yusuf Motala Muhammad Yusuf ibn Suleman ibn Qasim Motala (25 November 1946 – 8 September 2019) was a British Indian Sunni Muslim scholar, founder of Darul Uloom Bury and one of the disciples of Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi.

(1946–2019) Lancashire

Switzerland

* Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) * Tariq Ramadan (born 1962) Geneva

North America

Canada

Ahmad Kutty Ahmad Kutty (born 1946 in Valanchery, Kerala, India), is a North American Islamic scholar. He is currently senior resident Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto and has taught at Emanuel College of the University of Toronto as a ...

(born 1946), Toronto * Faraz Rabbani, Ontario *

Farhat Hashmi Farhat Naseem Hashmi ( ur, ; born December 22, 1957) is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar, Muslim television preacher, and the founder of Al-Huda Institute. She holds a PhD degree in Islamic studies from the University of Glasgow, Scotlan ...

(born 1957) *

Ingrid Mattson Ingrid Mattson (born August 24, 1963) is a Canadian activist and scholar, A professor of Islamic studies, she is currently the London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario ...

(born 1963), Ontario *

Jamal Badawi Jamal A. Badawi ( ar, جمال بدوي) is an Egyptian-Canadian author, preacher and speaker on Islam. Life Badawi completed his undergraduate studies at Ain Shams University in Cairo. He left for the United States in the 1960s and completed ...

, Halifax, Nova Scotia *

Muzaffar Iqbal Muzaffar Iqbāl (Punjabi/Urdu: ; born December 3, 1954 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and author. Career Currently, Dr. Iqbal is the President of Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada. Between 1992-1996, Iqbal ...

(born 1954), Edmonton * Reza Hosseini Nassab (born 1960), Toronto

United States

* Aminah McCloud (born 1958) * Amina Wadud (born 1952) *

Amir Hussain Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. Currently, he is chair of thDepartment of Theological Studiesat Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In November 2022 he becamPresident of the American Academy o ...

Los Angeles, CA *

Asifa Quraishi Asifa Bano Quraishi (aka Asifa Quraishi-Landes) (born July 17, 1967) is an American educator and legal scholar. She is a professor of law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses in Islamic law and U.S. constitutional law. ...

* Asma Barlas (born 1950) * Azizah Y. Al-Hibri (born 1943) Virginia *

Caner Dagli Caner Dagli () is a Circassian-American Islamic scholar and associate professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Biography Dagli is of Circassian origin and was born in the United States. He gra ...

Dalia Mogahed Dalia Mogahed (born 1975), is an American researcher and consultant of Egyptian origin. She is the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in Washington, D.C. She is also President and CEO of Mogahed Con ...

* Fazlur Rahman (1919–1988) Illinois * Fetullah Gulen (born 1941) Pennsylvania *

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

(born 1958) Berkeley, CA * Hamid Algar (born 1940) Berkeley, CA * Hassan Hathout (1924–2009) Pasadena. CA *

Jonathan A.C. Brown Jonathan Andrew Cleveland Brown is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies. Since 2012, he has served as an associate professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of ...

(born 1977) Washington DC *

Kecia Ali Kecia Ali (born 1972) is an American academic who focuses on the study of Islamic jurisprudence, ethics, women and gender, and biography. She is currently a professor of religion at Boston University. She previously worked with Brandeis Universit ...

(born 1972) Massachusetts * Khaled Abou El Fadl (born 1963) California *

Khalid Yahya Blankinship Khalid Yahya Blankinship (born 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American historian who specialises in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Biography He graduated ( BA) in History from the University of Washington in 1973 and in the same year, whi ...

(born 1949) Philadelphia, PA *

Laleh Bakhtiar Laleh Mehree Bakhtiar (born Mary Nell Bakhtiar; July 29, 1938 – October 18, 2020) was an Iranian-American Islamic and Sufi scholar, author, translator, and clinical psychologist. Bakhtiar was the first American woman to translate the Quran in ...

(1938-2020) * Louay Safi (born 1955) *

Maria Massi Dakake Maria Massi Dakake ( ) is an American scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University. Her research mainly focuses on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, a ...

(born 1968) *

Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh Mohammed Adam El-Sheikh (born January 1, 1945) is the Sudanese American executive director of the Fiqh Council of North America. Biography El-Sheikh was born in Sudan. Education El-Sheikh graduated from the faculty of Shari'ah and Law of Omdurma ...

(born 1945) Virginia * Mohammad Hassan Khalil Michigan * Muqtedar Khan (born 1966) Delaware * Muzammil H. Siddiqi (born 1943) * Omar Khalidi (1953–2010) * Omar Suleiman Texas *

Omid Safi Omid Safi is a Sufi and Iranian-American Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He served as the Director of Duke Islamic Studies Center from July 2014 to June 2019 and was a columnist for ''On Being''. Safi speciali ...

North Carolina * Ovamir Anjum Ohio *

Riffat Hassan Riffat Hassan (born 1943) is a Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur'an. Early life and career Hassan was born in Lahore, Pakistan, to an upper-class Sayid Muslim family. Hassan's maternal grandfather w ...

(born 1953) *

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (; fa, سید حسین نصر, born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian philosopher and University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. Born in Tehran, Nasr completed his education in Iran and the Unite ...

(born 1933) * Sherman Jackson California * Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (born 1948) Chicago *

Wael Hallaq Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he has been teaching ethics, law, and political thought since 2009. He is considered a leading scholar in the field of Islamic legal studies, and has ...

(born 1955) New York *

Warith Deen Mohammed Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was an African-American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revi ...

(1933–2008) Illinois * Yasir Qadhi (born 1975) Texas * Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (born 1982) Chicago *

Zaid Shakir Zaid Shakir ( ar, زيد شاكر; born Ricky Daryl Mitchell, May 24, 1956) is an American Muslim scholar"Lonny Shavelson, Fred Setterberg", Under the Dragon: California's New Culture, Oakland Museum of California, Heyday Books, p.64, "Edward ...

(born 1956) California

Trinidad

* Imran N. Hosein

Oceania

Australia

* Charis Waddy (1909–2004) *

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(1928–2016) *

Ibrahim Abu Mohamed Ibrahim Abu Mohamed (alternative spelling, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed) is an Egyptian-born and educated Sunni Islamic scholar and Grand Mufti of Australia from September 2011 to March 2018. He became Grand Mufti again after Afifi's death. Personal ...

* Taj El-Din Hilaly (born 1941)

New Zealand

* Joel Hayward (born in Christchurch in 1964), lives in

Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in the United Arab Emirates, second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dha ...

, UAE

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