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Assessment[edit]

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High	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid	Subject fills in more minor details
Low	Subject is mainly of specialist interest.

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Topics[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name
Top			Muslim scholars
Top			Averroism
Top			History_of_theology#Islamic_theology
Mid			List of ayatollahs
High			List of marjas
High			Non-Muslim Islamic scholars

Theologies[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name
			Maturidi
			Murji'ah
			Mu'tazili
			Al-Jabriyyah
			Akhbari
			Zahiri
			Jariri

Groups and institutions[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name
			Permanent Committee
			Al-Mawrid
			ISTAC
			Islamic Society of North America
			European Council for Fatwa and Research
			The Seven Fuqaha of Medina
			Hanbali Scholars
			Royal Asiatic Society

Scholars[edit]

1st Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
1st century AH: 622 – 719 CE
Top	B		Ali	Shi'a and Sunni
Top	B		`Abd Allah ibn `Abbas	Shi'a and Sunni
Top	B		Umar	Sunni
High	Start		Sulaym ibn Qays	Shi'a and Sunni
High	Start		Abd-Allah ibn Umar	Sunni
Top	Stub		Ma'bad al-Juhani	Sunni
High	Start		Urwah ibn Zubayr	Sunni
High	B		Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud	Sunni
High	B		Ubay ibn Ka'b	Shi'a and Sunni
High	B		Said Ibn Al-Musayyib
High	B		Abu Hurairah	Sunni
	Start		Masruq ibn al-Ajda'
	Start		Ahmad ibn Tawoos
	Start		Sahl ibn Sa'd
	Start		Alqama ibn Qays al-Nakha'i
	Stub		Aswad ibn Yazid
	Stub		Abdullah ibn Sailam
	Start		Ka'ab al-Ahbar
	Start		Raja Ibn Haywah
	Start		Ali bin Abu Talha
High	Start		Ferdowsi	Shi'a
	Stub		Uqbah ibn Amir
	B		Geber

2nd Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
2nd century AH: 719 – 816 CE
High	Start		Al-Nasa'i	Sunni
High	Start		Ata ibn Abi Rabah	Shi'a and Sunni
Top	B		Muhammad al-Baqir	Shi'a and Sunni
	Stub		Rabi ibn Sabih
			Sibawayh
Mid	Start		Mujahid ibn Jabr	Shi'a and Sunni
Top	B		Malik ibn Anas	Sunni
Top	B		Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man	Sunni Hanafi
High	Start		Aban ibn abi-Ayyash	Shi'a Twelver
Top	Start		Abu Suhail an-Nafi	Sunni
Top	Start		Hasan al-Basri	Sunni
High	Start		Ali ibn al-Madini	Sunni
Low	Stub		Abd-Allah ibn Numayr	Sunni
Top	Start		Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani	Sunni
Top	Start		Wasil ibn Ata	Mu'tazilite
Top	B		Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i	Sunni Shafi'i
Low	Start		Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri	Sunni
High	Stub		Abd al-Hamid al-Katib	Sunni
High	Start		Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa	Sunni
			Ibn Ishaq
	Start		Salamah ibn Dinar	Shi'a and Sunni
			Tawoos ibn Kaysaan
			Wahb ibn Munabbih
			Ka'b al-Ahbar
			Sufyan al-Thawrt ibn Said
			Amir ibn Abd al-Qays
			Abu Muslim al-Khawlani
			Uwais al-Qarni
			Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym
			Hammam ibn Munabbih
			Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm
			Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
			Abd-al-Rahman al-Awzai
			Abu Yusuf
			Muhammad Ibn Wasi' Al-Azdi
			Al-Waqidi
	Stub		Abu Yusuf Ya'qub	Sunni Hanafi
	Stub		Abi Mekhnaf

3rd Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
3rd century AH: 816 – 913 CE
High	Start		Ibn Maja	Sunni
	Start		Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
High	Start		Hasan al-Askari	Shi'a and Sunni?
Mid	B		Ibn al-Rawandi	Controversial
	Start		Al-Tabarani	Sunni
Top	Start		Al-Tirmidhi	Sunni
Top	Start		Abu Da'ud	Sunni
Top	B		Muhammad al-Bukhari	Sunni
Top	B		Ahmad ibn Hanbal	Sunni Hanbali
High	B		Al-Kindī	Sunni
Top	Start		Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj	Sunni
High	Stub		Yahya ibn Ma'in	Sunni
	Start		Al-Sakhawi	Sunni
Top	Start		Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari	Sunni , former Mu'tazili
Top	Stub		Al-Jubba'i	Mu'tazilite
High	B		Al-Jahiz
	Stub		Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Zuhri	Sunni
Top	Start		Abu Dawood	Sunni
	Start		Al-Asma'i
	Start		Al-Dinawari
	Start		Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari

4th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
4th century AH
Top	FA, but no longer		Al-Razi
	Stub		Abu Bakr al-Sajistani
	Stub		Shaikh Saduq	Shi'a
			Abu Yaqub Sijistani	Shi'a
			Al Amiri
	Start		Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahaawee	Sunni Hanafi
	B		Al-Tahawi	Sunni Hanafi
Top	Start		Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari	Sunni
Top	B		Muhammad Ya'qub Kulainy	Shi'a Twelver
Top	Start		Al-Farabi	Sunni
Top	Start		Hakim al-Nishaburi	Sunni
Mid	Stub		Ibn Sa'd	Sunni
Top	Stub		Seyyed Razi	Shi'a Twelver
	Stub		Abu Hilal al-Askari
	Start		Abu Mansur Al Maturidi
	Start		Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
	Start		Abu al-Faraj
	Stub		Al-Muqaddasi
	Stub		Abul Hasan al-Tabari

5th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
5th century AH
	Start		Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami	Sunni
	Start		Al-Mawardi	Sunni Shafi'i
Top	B		Avicenna	Mu'tazilite
High	Start		Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi	Sunni
Mid	Start		Al-Ghazali	Sunni
	Stub		Imam al-Bayhaqi	Sunni
Mid	Stub		Yusuf ibn Abd-al-Barr	Sunni
Mid	Start		Ibn Hazm	Sunni
			Ibn Miskawayh
			Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi

6th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
6th century AH
High	Stub		Imam As-Suhaili	Sunni
High	Start		Abu-al-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi	Sunni
Mid	Start		Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi	Sunni
Low	Start		Al-Zamakhshari	Mu'tazilite
Top	Start		Muhammad al-Idrisi	Sunni
Low	Stub		Al-Baghawi	Sunni
Top	B		Averroes	Sunni Maliki
Low	Start		Fakhr al-Din al-Razi	Sunni Shafi'i
Low	Stub		Ibn Asakir	Sunni
	Stub		Qadi Iyad	Sunni Maliki
	Stub		Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi	Sufi
	Stub		Al-Raghib al-Isfahani
	Start		Ibn al-Khashshab (died 1125)	Shi'a
	Start		Muhammad al-Shahrastani	disputed

7th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
7th century AH
	Stub		Ibn Qudamah	Sunni Hanbali
Top	B		Al-Dhahabi	Sunni Shafi'i
Top	B		Ibn Arabi	Sunni Sufi
Top	B		Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi	Sunni Sufi
High	Start		Sadr al-din al-Qunawi	Sunni Sufi
Top	B		Ibn Taymiya	Sunni Salafi
High	Start		Sibt ibn al-Jawzi	Sunni Salafi
High	B		Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi	Sunni
Low	B		Ibn Jubayr	Sunni
High	Start		Al-Qurtubi	Sunni Maliki
	Stub		Ibn Khallikan
High	Start		Ibn Abu al-Hadid	Mu'tazilite
			Ibn Sahl of Sevilla
	Start		Shihab al-Din Qarafi	Sunni Maliki
	Stub		Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi
	Start		Al-Jazari
	Start		Baidawi

8th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
8th century AH
Mid	Start		Ibn al-Qayyim	Sunni Salafi
	GA		Ibn Battuta	Sunni Shafi'i
	Stub		Ibn Juzayy	Sunni
	Start		Al-Hilli	Shi'a
Mid	Start		Ibn Kathir	Sunni
	Stub		Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi	Sunni Maliki
Low	Start		Ibn Rajab	Sunni
Mid	B		Ibn Khaldun	Sunni
	Start		Ibn Abu al-Iz	Sunni Hanafi
	Stub		Shams Tabraiz (missionary)	Shi'a Ismaili
Top	B		Amir Khusro	Sufi
	Start		Nizamuddin Auliya	Sufi
	Stub		Shams-al-Din al-Kermani	Sunni
	Stub		Ali al-Hamadani	Sunni Shafi'i Sufi
	Start		Rashid al-Din	Sunni

9th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
9th century AH
	Stub		Badr al-Din al-Ayni	Sunni
	Stub		Ibn Hajar al-Haytami	Sunni
Top	Start		Ibn Hajar Asqalani	Sunni
Low	Stub		Al-Qastallani	Sunni
Top	B		Zheng He	Sunni

10th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
10th century AH
High	B		Suyuti	Sunni
Low	Stub		Muhammad ibn Khwand
Top	Start		Ibn Sahl
	Stub		Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi	Sunni
	Stub		Ali bn Ahmad al-Samhudi	Sunni Shafi'i
	Stub		Muhammad Khwandamir	Sunni

11th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
11th century AH
Low	Stub		Abd-al-Baqi al-Zurqani	Sunni
High	Stub		Ali al-Qari	Sunni Hanafi Sufi

12th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
12th century AH
Low	Stub		Muhammad al-Zurqani	Sunni
Mid	Stub		Mahmud al-Alusi	Sunni
Low	Stub		Shah Waliullah	Sunni Sufi
			Mohammed El Ifrani

13th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
13th century AH
Top	B		Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab	Sunni Salafi
	Stub		Qadi Thanaullah Panipati	Sunni
High	Stub		Shah Abdul Aziz	Sunni Deobandi
High	Start		Muhammad ash-Shawkani	Sunni , ex Zaidiyyah
High	B		Shaykh Ahmad	Shi'a
	Start		Karl Gottlieb Pfander	Non-Muslim
	Stub		Sulayman al-Qunduzi	Sunni

14th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
14th century AH
	Stub		Taha Husain	Sunni
	Stub		Syed Nazeer Husain	Sunni
	Start		Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi	Sunni Salafi
	Start		Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di	Sunni Hanbali
Top	FA		Muhammad Iqbal	Sunni
High	B		Sayyid Qutb	Sunni
High	Start		Muhammad Abduh	Sunni
High	B		Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Ali Shariati	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Said Nursî	Sunni
	B		Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Top	B		Ashraf Ali Thanvi	Sunni Deobandi
	Start		Muhammad Husayn Haykal	Sunni
Top	B		Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi	Sunni
High	Start		Amin Ahsan Islahi	Sunni
High	B		Muḥammad Zakarīyā al-Kāndahlawī	Sunni
Mid	Start		Muhammad Qutb	Sunni Salafi
Mid	Start		Muhammad al-Tijani	Shi'a Twelver, ex Salafi
Low	Stub		Waheed uz-Zaman	Sunni Deobandi
Low	Stub		Shabbir Ahmad Usmani	Sunni
	Start		Muhammad Taqi Usmani	Sunni
	Start		Al-Kawthari	Sunni
Low	B		Muhammad ibn al-Habib	Sunni Sufi
	Start		Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari	Sunni
Top	Start		Allameh Tabatabaei	Shi'a Twelver
High	Start		Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr	Shi'a Twelver
High	Start		Bint al-Hoda	Shi'a Twelver
High	Start		Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Mirza Ghulam Ahmad	Ahmadi
	Start		Mohammed Habib Shakir
Mid	Start		Abdulhakim Arvasi	Sunni
High	GA		Malcolm X	Sunni
High	B		Elijah Muhammad	Nation of Islam
	Start		Syed Ameer Ali
	Stub		E. A. Belyaev
	Stub		Naseer Ahmad Nasir
	B		Maulana Muhammad Ali	Ahmadi
Mid	B		Syed Sulaiman Nadvi	Sunni
	Start		Yusuf an-Nabhani	Sunni Sufi
	Start		David Samuel Margoliouth	Non-Muslim
	Start		Arthur John Arberry	Non-Muslim
	B		Louis Massignon	Non-Muslim
	Start		Thomas Walker Arnold	Non-Muslim
	Start		Henry Corbin	Non-Muslim
	Start		Joseph Schacht	Non-Muslim
	B		Richard Francis Burton	Non-Muslim

15th Century[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
15th century AH
Top	B		Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz	Sunni Salafi
High	B		Abdullah Yusuf Azzam	Sunni Salafi
Top	B		Abul-Qassim Khoei	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Abdul Majid al-Khoei	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Ruhollah Khomeini	Shi'a Twelver
High	B		Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi	Shi'a Twelver
High	Start		Javed Ahmed Ghamidi	Sunni (New Intellectual)^[1]
Low	B		Taj El-Din Hilaly	Sunni
Mid	B		Tahir-ul-Qadri	Sunni
High	Stub		Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy	Sunni
Mid	Start		Huseyin Hilmi Isik	Sunni
	B		Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki	Sunni Maliki
Top	Start		Rashad Khalifa	Controversial
			Fazlur Rahman
	B		Hakim Said
			Muhammad Hamidullah
			John Wansbrough	Non-Muslim
			William Montgomery Watt	Non-Muslim
			Annemarie Schimmel	Non-Muslim
			Donald Routledge Hill	Non-Muslim
			John Bagot Glubb	Non-Muslim
			Hasan M. Balyuzi	Non-Muslim
			Claude Cahen	Non-Muslim

Currently alive[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
Currently alive
	B		Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri	Sunni
	Stub		Azizah Y. al-Hibri
	B		Tariq Ramadan
			Jamal Badawi
			Ismail Poonawala
	Stub		Muhammad Akram Khan
	Stub		Umar Chapra
	Stub		Michael Sells
Low	GA		Cat Stevens
	Stub		Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini
Mid	B		Asra Nomani	Controversial
	Start		Abdul Hadi Palazzi	Sunni Shafi'i
Mid	B		Irshad Manji	Controversial
	Start		Saud Al-Shuraim	Sunni Salafi
Low	B		Omar Abdel-Rahman	Sunni Salafi
Top	B		Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy	Sunni
	Start		Moustapha Akkad	Sunni
	Start		Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais	Sunni
	Stub		Ahmad Shehab	Sunni
	B		M. Cherif Bassiouni	Sunni
			Abdul Basit Ahmad	Sunni
			Mohammed Zakariya	Sunni
			Farid Esack	Sunni
	Start		Khaled Abou El Fadl	Sunni
	Start		Faisal Ahmad Shinwari	Sunni
	Start		Talgat Tadzhuddin	Sunni
			Anwar Ibrahim	Sunni Shafi'i
			Mahathir bin Mohamad	Sunni
Mid	B		Zakir Naik	Sunni
Low	Start	Not a Islamic studies scholar	Muhammad Abdul Bari	Sunni
			Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati	Sunni Hanafi
	Start		Mohammad Hashim Kamali	Sunni
	B		Nazim al-Qubrusi	Controversial (New Age pseudo-Sufism)
Low	Stub		Khaleel Mohammed	Qadiani tendancies (Non-Muslim), neither is he a traditional Islamic Scholar.
			Muhammad Jawad Chirri	Shi'a Twelver
			Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri	Shi'a Twelver
	Start		Reza Aslan	Shi'a Twelver
	B		Hamid Dabashi	Shi'a Twelver
Top	B		Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani	Shi'a Twelver
			Vali Nasr	Shi'a Twelver
	Start		Naser Makarem Shirazi	Shi'a Twelver
	B		Mahdi al-Modarresi	Shi'a twelver
	Start		Muhammad Legenhausen	Shi'a twelver, ex-Catholic
			Abdolkarim Soroush	Shi'a twelver
	Start		Thomas McElwain	Shi'a twelver, ex-Baptist
	Start		Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad	Shi'a twelver
	Stub		Abbas Ka'bi	Shi'a twelver
			Martin Forward	Non-Muslim
			Francis Edwards Peters	Non-Muslim
	B		Bernard Lewis	Non-Muslim
			Michael Bonner	Non-Muslim
			Herbert Berg	Non-Muslim
			Patricia Crone	Non-Muslim
			Michael Cook (historian)	Non-Muslim
	Stub		Joel Carmichael	Non-Muslim
	Stub		Robert G. Hoyland	Non-Muslim
	Stub		G. R. Hawting	Non-Muslim
	Start		Alex Kronemer	Non-Muslim
	Start		Karen Armstrong	Non-Muslim
	Stub		Caesar E. Farah	Non-Muslim
	Start		Mark Cohen	Non-Muslim
	Start		Norman Stillman	Non-Muslim

Undated[edit]

Importance	Quality	Issues	Article name	Madhhab
Undated
	Stub		Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi	Sunni
			Shah Nimatullah	Sunni Sufi
			Ibn al-Arabi	Sunni
High	Start		Shah Waliullah	Sunni Sufi
	Start		Mujtaba Musavi Lari	Shi'a Twelver
High	Stub		Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh	Ibadi
High	Stub		Hisham ibn Urwah
	Stub		Malik ibn Aus Al-Hadathan
	Stub		Ibn Manzar
	Stub		Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui	Sunni Salafi
	Stub		Ibn Humaid	Sunni Salafi
	Stub		Abdul Haqq Dehlavi	Sunni
	Stub		Qazi Halb Burhan-ud-din	Sunni

To do[edit]

Maybe Sunnis[edit]

Maybe Shi'a[edit]

Maybe Sufis[edit]

Maybe Mutazilite[edit]

Others[edit]

Converts[edit]

Non-Muslims[edit]

^ A term coined by Prof. Qasim Zaman for those who are not bound by ijma of earlier scholarly opinions and that they do not have Madrasah degrees

[1] A term coined by Prof. Qasim Zaman for those who are not bound by ijma of earlier scholarly opinions and that they do not have Madrasah degrees

[1]