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Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
Muslim theologian (874–936)
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (; 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science. For this reason, he was honoured one of the most prestigious and rarest titles: Shaykh al-Islām.
Ibn Asakir
Islamic scholar and historian (1105–1176)
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar
Ibn al-Salah
Muslim Imam
Zakariyya al-Ansari
Islamic scholar
Ibn Daqiq al-Eid
Muslim scholar of medieval period
Jalaluddin al-Mahalli
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shihāb ad-Dīn Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥallī (; 1389–1459 CE); aka was an Egyptian renowned mufassir and a leading specialist in the principles of the law in Shafi'i jurisprudence. He authored numerous and lengthy works on various branches of Islamic Studies, among which the most important two are Tafsir al-Jalalayn and Kanz al-Raghibin, an explanation of Al-Nawawi's Minhaj al-Talibin, a classical manual on Islamic Law according to Shafi'i fiqh.
Abu Tahir Isfahani
12th-century Islamic scholar
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
American scholar and translator
al-Shīrāzī
Shāfiʿī jurisconsult
Abdullah b. Alevi Haddad
Sufi Muslim
Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
Sunni scholar
Majd ad-Dīn Ibn Athir
Medieval Arab biographer, linguist and historian
Muhammad al-Munawi
'''Muhammad 'Abd al-Ra'uf al-Munāwi (), also known as Al-Munāwi''' () was an Egyptian Islamic scholar of the Ottoman period. He was a prominent Shafi'i jurist, hadith specialist, historian, and sufi mystic. He is considered one of the most greatest Sunni scholars and prolific writers of his time. His most celebrated work, Fayd al-Qadir, stands as a cornerstone of classical Islamic scholarship. He was the paternal great-grandson of Sharaf al-Din al-Munawi and was the famous disciple of Al-Sha'rani.
Ḥasan Ibn-Muḥammad al-Būrīnī
Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian and poet and Shafi'i jurist.
Muḥammad Ibn-Ibrāhīm Ibn-Ǧamāʿa
Zainuddin Makhdoom II
Indian Islamic jurisprudent (Fiqh)
Abu Sulaiman al-Khattabi
Abū Sulaymān, Ḥamd b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Khaṭṭāb Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Bustī, commonly known as Al-Khaṭṭābī (), was a Sunni Islamic scholar from Sijistan. He is unanimously regarded as the leading figure in the sciences of Hadith and Shafi'i jurisprudence. He was widely considered to be one of the most intelligent and authoritative scholars of his time, renowned for his trustworthiness and reliability in transmitting narrations, and the author of a many famous works. Moreover, he was famously known as the man of letters, philologist, and lexicographer, as well as a master in poet
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Ramlī
muslim writer
Zaid Shakir
American Islamic scholar
Rania Awaad
Egyptian-American Islamic scholar
Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini
15th century scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence
Gibril F. Haddad
Islamic scholar
Al-Khāzin al-Baghdādī
14th century Sunni exegete and hadith scholar
Shihab al-Din al-Ramli
15th-century Islamic scholar
Abu Asim Muhammad ben Ahmad
shāfi'ī judge and jurist
Ibn Batish
Iraqi Islamic scholar and poet
Abdur-Rahman al-Mu'allimee al-Yamani
Abd al-Rahman ibn Yahya ibn Ali (; 1894–1966), commonly known by the '''al-Mu'allimi al-Yamani''' (), was a Yemeni Islamic scholar. He played a significant role within the Salafi movement, aligning with the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and Athari theology.
Ibn Habib al-Halabi
Syrian faqih, writer and poet