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List Of Islamic Scholars
Modern-era (20th to 21st century) Islamic scholars include the following, referring 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 Algeria * Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis (1889–1940) * Abdul Baqi Miftah (born 1952) * Abu Bakr al-Jazaeri (1921–2018) * Brahim Boushaki (1912–1997) * Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi (1889–1965) * Muhammad al-'Arabi al-Tabbani (1897/1898-1970) * Muhammad al-Hashimi al-Tilimsani (1881–1961) Egypt * Abd al-Hamid Kishk (1933–1996) * Ahmad al-Tayyeb (born 1946) * Ahmad Muhammad Shakir (1892–1958) * Ali Gomaa (born 1952) * Muhammad Metwalli al-Sha'rawi (1911–1998) * Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928–2010) * Yusuf al-Qaradawi (1926–2022) * Zainab al Ghazali (1917–2005) Ghana * Abdul Wahab Adam (1938–2014) * Ahmad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulama
In Islam, the ''ulama'' ( ; also spelled ''ulema''; ; singular ; feminine singular , plural ) are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law. They are considered the guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious knowledge in Islam. "Ulama" may refer broadly to the educated class of such religious scholars, including Theology, theologians, Religious law, canon lawyers (muftis), judges (qadis), professors, and high state religious officials. Alternatively, "ulama" may refer specifically to those holding governmental positions in an Islamic state. By longstanding tradition, ulama are educated in religious institutions (''madrasas''). The Quran and sunnah (authentic hadith) are the scriptural sources of Sharia, traditional Islamic law. Traditional way of education Students of Islamic doctrine do not seek out a specific educational institution, but rather seek to join renowned teachers. By tradition, a scholar who has completed their studies is approved by their teacher. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Bamba
Sheikh Ahmad Muhammad Ibrahim Bamba ( 1940 – 7 January 2022) ( ''Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad'') was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar. He worked as a lecturer at Bayero University, Kano. He taught Hadith Sahih al-Bukhari in his Mosque (Darul Hadis (Home of Hadith)) at Tudun Yola Kano State Nigeria. He was called Qala Haddasana, a phrase he mentioned often during his teaching. Early life Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Bamba was born in 1940. He was raised in Alabar A.E.B. or Nguwan Gonjawa, a suburb in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana. His father was Muhammad Ibrahim Bamba and his mothers were Hajia Khadijah (Mma Adizatu) and Hajia Fatima (Mma Hajia), daughters of Mma Gyamata, who was the daughter of scholar and first chief of Gonja community in Kumasi, Mallam Sani. His early Islamic education came at Wataniyya under the tutelage of Sufi, Alhaji Baba Al-Waiz (Babal-Waiz) at Kantudu. He graduated under his father's home teaching. He furthered his education in fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) and started wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 with one child. Career Trained in medicine, she worked as a volunteer doctor in Spain and Latin America. She mainly worked in Chile and Mexico for eight years starting in 1995. She came into contact there with Liberation Theology, which caused her to examine her own religion. From 2004 until 2007, she returned to Morocco, where she gathered a group of Muslim women interested in researching and reflecting upon Islam and intercultural dialog. In 2008, she became president and a board member of International Group of Studies and Reflection on Women and Islam (GIERFI), based in Barcelona. GIERFI has members and experts from at least eight countries including the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Morocco. Their mission is to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Al-Ghumari
Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (26 December 1902 – 1961) was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco. Career Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani.Muhammad Moin"Ahmed Al-Ghumari on Al-Albani" ''Al-Sunnah'': 8 March 2011. Like the rest of his family, Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali claimed that al-Ghumari had chosen to live a very simple life and eschewed material excess. Views Although a practitioner of Sufism, Ghumari criticized some Sufis, especially the rival Naqshbandi Tariqa, order.Gibril HaddadThe Ghumari School 6 December 2002: Living Islam. Last updated 2 June 2003. Like Ibn Hazm, Ghumari viewed scholarly Ikhtilaf, differences of opinion as wrong and he often used harsh language when respo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Al-Ghumari
Abu al-Fadl Abdullah bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (; 1910–1993) was a Muslim preacher, scholar of hadith, jurist and theologian from Morocco. Life Ghumari was born in Tangier in 1910, and died there in 1993.The Biography of Abu al Fadl Abdullah bin as-Siddiq al-Ghumari who died in the year 1413AH, written and translated by Riad Nachef. Available at: /ref> As a child, he was primarily educated by his father Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari, an Islamic scholar. He [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abd Al-Aziz Al-Ghumari
Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad al-Ghumari (; November 1920 in Tangier – November 6, 1997, in Tangier) was a Muslim scholar from Morocco. Career He started his early education in Tangier and traveled to Cairo and was a student of Azhari scholars such as Mahmoud Imam and Abdul Muti Sharshimi. Among his works, the is the book ''Mujam al-Shuyukh'' and ''Fath al Aziz Bi Asanid Sayyid Abd al-Aziz'', and more''.'' He wrote several articles in the ''Khadra'' and ''al-Balagh'' newspaper in Tangier and ''al-Islam'' magazine in Cairo. al-Ghumari was famous for his intellectual sparring with fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani. al-Ghumari used to teach the works of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani and the book Sahih al-Bukhari, and he also has a biography in the Moroccan scholars' encyclopaedia.''Uloom al Hadith Review'', 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 243 After a life of research on Hadith, al-Ghumari died in Tangier on Friday November 6, 1997, and was buried after a funeral in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Al-Hasan Al-Dido
Muhammād Al-Hasān bin Al-Deddew Al-Shanqītī (, born 31 October 1963 in Boutilimit) is a Mauritanian Muslim scholar, author, writer, and poet. He is the President of O'lama Information center, and the President of 'Abdallah ibn Yasin University. He is also head of the country's Center for the Development of Scholars. In 2014 he was the Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, and he is still a member of it. Early life and studies He was raised in an academic family. His grandfather was Muhammad 'Ali bin Abd-Alwadud, who was a Muslim scholar and his first tutor. He stayed close to him until his death in 1982. He started studying and memorizing the Quran when he was 5 years old with his parents, and finished the memorization of the whole Quran before he reached 10 years of age. He studied the Ten qira'at of Quran with his mother, then he learned the Hadith. Hadith studies He has licenses in Hadith from various Islamic scholars in different countries, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmoud Dicko
Mahmoud Dicko (; born around 1954) is a Malian Salafi imam from the Tombouctou Region who chaired the High Islamic Council of Mali (''Haut Conseil islamique malien'', HCIM) from January 2008 to April 2019. A politico-religious leader considered in 2020 one of the most influential people in Mali, though he has never run for public office, Dicko served as mediator between the Malian government and jihadist groups in the north of the country. After supporting Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in the 2013 election, he started supporting the opposition in 2017. On 7 September 2019, he started his own movement called Coordination of Movements, Associations and Sympathizers (Coordination des Mouvements, Associations et Sympathisants, CMAS). In 2019 and 2020, he called for several important demonstrations against President Keïta. Biography Dicko is Fulani. A former Arabic professor, trained in Saudi Arabia and Mauritania, Dicko became imam of the Salam mosque of Badalabougou in the early 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara
Sheikh Chérif Ousmane Madani Haïdara is a religious figure in Mali who has been the president of the High Islamic Council of Mali since April 2019. He is a follower of the Maliki school of IslamHolder, Gilles"Chérif Ousmane Madani Haidara and the Islamic Movement Ansar Dine. A Popular Malian Reformism in Search of Autonomy" ''Cahiers d’études africaines'', vol. no 206-207, no. 2, 2012, pp. 389-425. and a Sufi. In 1991, Haïdara established the Sufi-based Islamic movement Ansar Dine (also written Ançar Dine) - not to be confused with the terrorist organization Ansar Dine Ansar Dine ( ''ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn'', also transliterated ''Ançar Deen''), meaning " helpers of the religion" (Islam) (Defenders of the Faith) and also known as Ansar al-Din (abbreviated as AAD), was a Salafi jihadist group led by Iyad Ag Gha ... operating in the north of Mali. The movement is strong in southern Mali, the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, and with Malian diaspora. References Malian Sufis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadiq Al-Ghariani
Al-Sadiq Abd al-Rahman Ali al-Ghariani (; also spelled Saadiq, Sadeq and Sadik) has been the Grand Mufti of Libya since 2012. He is a Muslim imam of the Maliki school of thought . Academically he is a seated professor in the College of Sharia in the University of Tripoli since 1969 and distinguished contributor the Maliki school of thought with his numerous publications. His family originates from the village of Intataat near the city of Gharyan. Though he is often identified as a Salafist, al-Ghariani has often opposed efforts by Salafist militants to eliminate their opposition and force the creation of an Islamic state. As Grand Mufti and head of the Dar al-Ifta, the office in Libya responsible for religious rulings, his ''fatwa''s are not law, but they nevertheless exert an important moral force in government policy and decision-making. Sheikh Al Ghariani has become more prominent after the 2011 Libyan Revolution and subsequent civil war due to his widely supported fatwas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yusuf Soalih Ajura
Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, and the founder and leader of a sect in Ghana. Afa Ajura was a proponent of Sunni Islam shunning pre-Islamic pagan practices, and whom some have referred to as a precursor to Wahhabi reformism in Ghana. He established the Anbariyya Islamic Institute in Tamale in the 1940s. He died in Tamale A tamale, in Spanish language, Spanish , is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of ''masa'', a dough made from nixtamalization, nixtamalized maize, corn, which is steaming, steamed in a corn husk or Banana leaf, banana leaves. The wrapping ... on December 22, 2004. He was succeeded by Saeed Abubakr Zakaria in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community. See also * Moulvi Abdul Wahab Adam * Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II References Further reading * * * * * * * * * * * * * External links Ahlussunna Wal Jama’a (ASWAJ)Anbariya Sunni Community {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
