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Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Paternal uncle of Muhammad (c.568-c.653)

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Historical Arab ruler (624-692)

Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud

Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (c.594-c.653)

Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab

Companion of Muhammad and Scholar

Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad

Egyptian Quran reciter (1927–1988)

Abdul Qadir Gilani

Sunni Muslim preacher and theologian (1078–1166)

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad (died 652 CE)

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari

Muslim theologian (874–936)

Abu Ayyub al-Ansari

Companion and the stand-bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi

Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian (699–767)

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi

9th and 10th-century Persian theologian

Abu Musa al-Ash'ari

Companion (Sahabi) of Muhammad

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Leader and Merchant from the Quraysh tribe of Mecca

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Muslim scholar, theologian, jurist

Indian Sufi philosopher

Muhammad's third wife (c. 614 – 678)

11th-century Islamic scholar

Syrian Islamic Historian and Hadith scholar

Persian Sunni muslim philosopher, theologian, jurist, logician and mystic

Tenth of the Twelve Shia Imams (828–868)

Eighth of the Twelve Shia Imams (766-818)

Great-grandson of the prophet Muhammad and fourth of the Twelve Imams (659-713)

ALi Corporation

Manufacturing company

Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar

13th-century Muslim scholar

Arab philosopher

Muslim scholar, jurist, and traditionist (767–820)

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1445–1505)

Iranian Muslim scholar, historian, and commentator on the Qur'an (839-923)

Persian scholar

Baha' al-Din Naqshband

Muslim Saint and founder of Naqshbandi order

Bilal ibn Rabah

Companion of Muhammad and first Islamic muezzin

Founder of The Nation of Gods and Earths

Elijah Muhammad

African American religious leader (1897–1975)

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

12th-century Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher

Daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)

Fatima bint Musa

Daughter of the Seventh Twelver Imam

Fethullah Gülen

Turkish scholar, theologian and dissident (1941–2024)

Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Muhammad's companion and uncle

Hasan al-Askari

Eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muslim Scholar, theologian, exegete, judge, and thinker

Grandson of Muhammad, real fifth caliph of Sunni Islam and the second Shia Imam (625–670)

Grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Imam (626–680)

Youngest cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Syrian Hanafi Jurist

Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)

10th century Persian Shia Islamic scholar

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Egyptian Islamic Jurist and theologian

Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994-1064)

Islamic Exegete and Scholar

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Syrian Islamic jurist, theologian and spiritual writer (1292-1350)

Abbasid jurist and scholar

Founder of the Almohad movement (c.1080–c.1128/30)

The first imam of Ibadis, muhaddith and faqih

Ja'far al-Sadiq

8th-century Muslim scholar and scientist

Jahm bin Safwan

Islamic theologian

Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838/1839–1897)

Junayd of Baghdad

9th and 10th-century Persian Islamic mystic

Khadija bint Khuwaylid

First wife of Muhammad (554–619)

Louis Farrakhan

American religious leader (born 1933)

Islamic scholar and traditionalist (711–795)

Iranian philosopher and inventor

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

19th-century Indian religious figure; founder of the Ahmadiyya movement

Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi

Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric (c.1627 – 1699)

Founder of Islam (c. 570 – 632)

Egyptian Islamic jurist, scholar and liberal reformer (1849-1905)

Muhammad al-Baqir

Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muhammad al-Bukhari

Persian Muhaddith (scholar of hadith) (810-870)

Muhammad al-Jawad

Ninth of the Twelve Shia Imams (811–835)

Muhammad al-Mahdi

Twelfth and last of the Twelve Shia Imams

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Islamic scholar, jurist, and eponym of Wahhabi movement (1703–1792) from Saudi Arabia

Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi

Founder of the Senussi dynasty

Iranian Shia Islamic philosopher and theologian

Seventh of the Twelve Imams (765–799 CE)

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Islamic Hadith scholar of Caliphate era

Osman Nuri Topbaş

Turkish Sufi leader

Female Sufi scholar and saint (died 801)

Salman the Persian

Companion of Muhammad the Prophet; first Persian convert to Islam

11th-century Persian scholar

Swiss Muslim scholar

Companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)

Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi

Companion of Muhammad and his adopted son

Zayd ibn Thabit

Personal scribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad