Tag: Islamic Scholars

Abu al-Husayn Asakir ad-Din Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshadh al-Qushayri an-Naysaburi أبو الحسين عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشاذ القشيري النيسابوري; after 815 – May 875 CE / 206 – 261 AH) or Muslim Nayshāpūrī (Persian: مسلم نیشاپوری), commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic…

Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of numerous books on history, biography, contemporary Islam, and the Muslim community in India, one of…

Imam Abd Al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Rajab is best known as Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali. He read and became proficient in the various fields of science. He engrossed himself with the issues of the (Hanbali) maddhab until he mastered it. He devoted himself to the occupation of knowledge of the texts, defects and meanings of the…

Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf حافظ صلاح الدین یوسف‎; 1945, Jaipur, India – 12 July 2020, Lahore, Pakistan, was Pakistani Islamic scholar, Qur’anic commentator, author, researcher, commentator] and was former editor-in-chief of Al-Aitisam Weekly (a Pakistani weekly magazine) for twenty four years. He was the head of Darussalam’s Research Division department in Lahore.

Zubair Ali Zai زبیر علی زئی June 1957 – 10 November 2013 was a preacher, theologian, Islamic scholar of ahadith and former merchant marine from Pakistan. Zubair Ali Zai was from the Pashtun tribe of Alizai, itself a branch of the larger Durrani confederation tracing their descent back to Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the…

Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips born Dennis Bradley Philips; July 17, 1947 is a Jamaica-born Canadian Islamic teacher, speaker, author, founder and chancellor of the International Open University, who lives in Qatar. He has written, translated and commented on over 50 Islamic books and has appeared or presented on numerous national and satellite television channels, including…

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Qadri[a] (14 June 1856 – October 1921), known reverentially as A’la Hazrat,was an Indian Islamic scholar and poet who is considered as the founder of the Barelvi movement and the Razvi branch of the Qadri Sufi order. Born in Bareilly, British India, Khan wrote on law, religion, philosophy and the sciences,…

Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tusiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali, 1058 – 19 December 1111, known in Medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He is known as one of the most prominent and influential jurisconsults, legal theoreticians, muftis,…

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Yazid Ibn Majah al-Rab i al-Qazwīniابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval scholar of hadith of Persian origin. He compiled the last of Sunni Islam’s six canonical hadith collections, Sunan Ibn Mājah

Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Darimi عبد الله بن عبد الرحمن الدارمي 797–869 was a Muslim scholar and Imam of Arab ancestry. His best known work is Sunan al-Darimi, a book collection of hadith. Al-Darimi came from the family tribe of Banu Darim ibn Malik ibn Hanzala ibn Zayd ibn Manah ibn Tamim, or the…

Maulana Shah Rafi ud Din was son of Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi. He attained fame and prestige as a Tradionist, Theologian and logician. His famous books include Azdawaj-E-Sani Ma Tarjuma-E-Urdu, Alamaat-E-Qayamat, Qayamat Nama besides the translation of Quran al-Kareem with his elder brother Shah Abdul Qadir Dehlvi.

Muhammad Shafi ibn Muhammad Yasin Usmani Deobandi محمد شفیع بن محمد ياسین عثمانی دیوبندی c. 25 January 1897 – 6 October 1976, often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought.