Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (Arabic: صدر الشريعة الأصغر), also known as Sadr al-Shari'a al-Thani (Arabic: صدر الشريعة الثاني), was a Hanafi-Maturidi scholar...

Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti Sijzi (Persian: معین الدین چشتی, romanized: Muʿīn al-Dīn Chishtī; February 1143 – March 1236), known reverentially as Khawaja...

a human scarecrow as a warning to other sailors on the strait. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad...

Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd Zengī (نور الدين محمود زنگي; February 1118 – 15 May 1174), commonly known as Nur ad-Din (lit. 'Light of the Faith' in Arabic), was a...

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri (Persian: ابو الحسن علی بن عثمان الجلابی الھجویری, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿUthmān al-Jullābī...

prescribed by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), he is not considered an apostate as long as he doesn't deny his obligations. According to al-Maturidi, faith isn't based...

Muqatil al-Razi (d. 248 H/ 662 CE), Abu Nasr al-Ayadi "al-Faqih al-Samarqandi" (d. 260 H?), Nusayr bin Yahya al-Balkhi (d. 268 H/ 881 CE), and Abu Bakr al-Juzjani...

Al-Fiqh al-Akbar (Arabic: الفقه الأكبر) or "The Greater Knowledge" is a popular early Islamic text attributed to the Muslim jurist Abu Hanifa. It is one...

In truth, the pearly verse of the poem combines the Canon Law of Islam (sharīʿa) with the Sufi Path (ṭarīqa) and the Divine Reality (ḥaqīqa); the author's...

Haqqani Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri Anzar Shah Kashmiri Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri Asghar Hussain Deobandi Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri Azhar Shah Qaiser Athar Ali Bengali...

students number in thousands. His major students include Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Asghar Hussain Deobandi, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Hussain Ahmad Madani, Izaz Ali Amrohi...

Mahmud Chiragh Dehlavi, Amir Khusro, Khwaja Banda Nawaz Gesudaraz Muhammad al-Hussaini, Alaul Haq Pandavi and Nur Qutb Alam, Pandua, West Bengal; Ashraf...

Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658...

of narration) from Al Hidayah of Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani, Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Hanbali of Makkah and Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Gharbi. Abdul Ghani...

Syed Muhammad ibn Yousuf al-Hussaini (30 July 1321 − 1 November 1422), commonly known as Bande Nawaz or Gisu Daraz, was a Hanafi Maturidi scholar and Sufi...

Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (Arabic: بدر الدين العيني, romanized: Badr al-ʿAynī; born 26 Ramadan 762 AH/30...

Kadi Ahmad Burhan al-Din (8 January 1345, Kayseri – 1398, Sivas) poet, scholar, and statesman. He was vizier to the Eretnid rulers of Anatolia. In 1381...

Arifi, Athar Ali Bengali, Shah Abdul Wahhab, Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri, Abrarul Haq Haqqi, Muhammadullah Hafezzi, Khair Muhammad Jalandhari...

Abu Ali al-Khayyat (Arabic: أبو علي الخياط; c. 153 – 220 AH (c. 770 – c. 835 CE)), often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources, (also called...

'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian: نظام‌الدین...

Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya (Arabic: العقيدة الطحاوية) or Bayan al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a (Arabic: بيان السنة والجماعة, lit. 'Exposition of Sunna and the Position...

Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed (1403 – 18 December 1474), Persian: علاءالدین علی بن محمد سمرقندی known as Ali Qushji (Ottoman Turkish : علی قوشچی, kuşçu –...

Al-Bazdawi studied under Shams al-A'imma 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Halwani (d. 456/1064) who was also a teacher to Al-Sarakhsi. Sadr al-Islam Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi...

(d. 725 AH) Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 747 AH) Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786 AH) Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 791 AH) Kadi Burhan al-Din (d. 800 AH)...

Sarh al-Isaguji or Al-Feva'id al-Fenariyye: Commentary on Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī's famous Isāghūjī fi al-Manṭiq. Miṣbāḥ al-Uns: Commentary on Sadr al-Din...

al-Din ibn Jama'a (d. 819/1416). Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d. 825/1449). Wali al-Din al-'Iraqi (d. 826/1423) the son of Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi. Badr al-Din...

Abd al-Haqq (Muhaddith) al-Dehlawi was an Islamic scholar, Sufi and author from India. He was born in 1551 (958 AH) in Delhi, hence the suffix Dehlavi...

Muhammad, and completed the first two volumes of the planned work, Sirat al-Nabi. His disciple, Sulaiman Nadvi, added to this material and wrote the remaining...

Shashi Jain for Pointer Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-81-7132-598-6. Ali, Asghar (9 April 2011). "Islamic identity in secular India". The Milli Gazette....

keeping fatwas unbiased. Ibn Abidin's solution to this problem was that Shari'a law was built with the goal of making the life of a believer free from...