Critics of Wahhabism

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014

Iraqi Shia scholar, politician and militia leader (born 1974)

Shia cleric

Syrian Sunni Muslim scholar (1929–2013)

Iranian-Iraqi Islamic scholar

Indian freedom struggle leader and scholar

Iranian Grand Ayatollah

British islamicist (1960-)

Ottoman jurisprudence expert

Islamic scholar

Harari Islamic scholar

Ottoman Grand Mufti of Mecca (1816–1886)

Iraqi/Iranian Grand Ayatollah

Muhammad Zahid ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (; –1952), commonly known by the al-Kawthari (), was an Islamic scholar and theologian. A prolific author of over 40 works, al-Kawthari followed the Hanafi school of jurisprudence and championed the Maturidi school of theology.

Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and political activist (1928–2001)

Muslim influencer and reformist Imam

Islamic scholar (1932–2015)

Iraqi politician

Indian Islamic scholar and sufi saint of Hindustan

British-American Iranologist

contemporary Kalam scholar from Jordan

islamic scholar/judge/poet/defender-Ottoman

Islamic scholar

Egyptian professor

Islamic scholar

professor of Islamic Law

Algerian Sunni Muslim scholar

Russian Sunni ulani (1963-2012)

Tatar imam (born 1963)

18th-century Islamic scholar and brother of Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab

Muslim preacher and jurist (1910–1993)

Ahsa'i Saudi Islamic scholar and teacher (1729-1801)