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List of Islamic studies scholars

Index List of Islamic studies scholars

In a Muslim context, Islamic studies can be an umbrella term for virtually all of academia, both originally researched and as defined by the Islamization of knowledge. [1]

51 relations: Abdalqadir as-Sufi, Al-Samawal al-Maghribi, Allamah, Bilal Philips, Early Islamic philosophy, Frithjof Schuon, Ghulam Ahmed Perwez, Hamza Yusuf, History of Islam, Hussein Ye, Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Islam, Islamic culture, Islamic philosophy, Islamic studies by author (non-Muslim or academic), Ivan Aguéli, Joel Hayward, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Kelantanese dinar, Khalid Yahya Blankinship, Khalid Yasin, List of Ayatollahs, List of contemporary Muslim scholars of Islam, List of da'is, List of Islamic jurists, List of Muslim astronomers, List of Muslim comparative religionists, List of Muslim historians, List of Muslim philosophers, List of Muslim scientists, List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars, List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars, List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam, Lists of Maraji, Malcolm X, Marmaduke Pickthall, Martin Lings, Mathematics in medieval Islam, Michael Wolfe, Muhammad Asad, Mullah, Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta, Roger Garaudy, Sherman Jackson, Siraj Wahhaj, Suhaib Webb, Timothy Winter, Ulama, Warith Deen Mohammed, ..., Zaid Shakir. Expand index (1 more) »

Abdalqadir as-Sufi

Abdalqadir as-Sufi (born Ian Dallas in Ayr, Scotland in 1930) is a Shaykh of Instruction, leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Tariqa, founder of the Murabitun World Movement and author of numerous books on Islam, Sufism and political theory.

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Al-Samawal al-Maghribi

(السموأل بن يحيى المغربي; c. 1130 – c. 1180), commonly known as Samau'al al-Maghribi, was a mathematician, astronomer and physician.

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Allamah

Allamah (علامه, Urdu and), also spelled Allameh and Allama, is an honorary title carried by scholars of Islamic fiqh, jurisprudence, and philosophy.

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Bilal Philips

Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, (born Dennis Bradley Philips, 1946) is a Jamaican-born Canadian Muslim teacher, speaker, and author who lives in Qatar.

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Early Islamic philosophy

Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasting until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE).

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Frithjof Schuon

Frithjof Schuon (June 18, 1907 – May 5, 1998), also known as Īsā Nūr al-Dīn, was an author of German ancestry born in Basel, Switzerland.

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Ghulam Ahmed Perwez

Ghulam Ahmad Parwez (غلام احمد پرویز; 1903–1985) was a Muslim socialist from pre-Independence India and later Pakistan.

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Hamza Yusuf

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (born January 1, 1960) is an American Islamic scholar, and is co-founder of Zaytuna College.

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History of Islam

The history of Islam concerns the political, social,economic and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.

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Hussein Ye

Hussain Yee or Hussein Yee (born 1950) is a Malaysian preacher and Islamic scholar.

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Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi

Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, also known as Allama Mashriqi, (25 August 1888 – 27 August 1963) was a Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Islamic culture

Islamic culture is a term primarily used in secular academia to describe the cultural practices common to historically Islamic people -- i.e., the culture of the Islamicate.

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Islamic philosophy

In the religion of Islam, two words are sometimes translated as philosophy—falsafa (literally "philosophy"), which refers to philosophy as well as logic, mathematics, and physics; and Kalam (literally "speech"), which refers to a rationalist form of Islamic philosophy and theology based on the interpretations of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism as developed by medieval Muslim philosophers.

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Islamic studies by author (non-Muslim or academic)

Included are prominent authors who have made studies concerning Islam, the religion and its civilization, and the culture of Muslim peoples.

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Ivan Aguéli

Ivan Aguéli (born John Gustaf Agelii) (May 24, 1869 - October 1, 1917) also named Sheikh 'Abd al-Hādī 'Aqīlī (شيخ عبد الهادی عقیلی) upon his conversion to Islam, was a Swedish wandering Sufi, painter and author.

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Joel Hayward

Joel Hayward (born 1964) is a New Zealand-born British "noted scholar of war and strategy", writer and Muslim poet whom the daily newspaper Al Kaleej calls "a world authority on international conflict and strategy".

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Joseph E. B. Lumbard

Joseph E.B. Lumbard is currently a professor at The American University of Sharjah in the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies.

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Kelantanese dinar

The Kelantanese dinar is a currency issued by the Government of the Malaysian state of Kelantan, which purportedly is in conformance with the concept of the Islamic gold dinar.

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Khalid Yahya Blankinship

Khalid Yahya Blankinship (born 1949 in Seattle Washington) is an American historian who specialises in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.

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Khalid Yasin

Khalid Yasin (also known as Abu Muhammad and Abu Muhammad Khalid Yasin) born in 1946 is an American convert from Christianity to Islam who lives in Manchester, England and lectures in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

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List of Ayatollahs

This is a partial list of Ayatollahs, a title given to high ranked Twelver Shi'a Muslims clerics.

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List of contemporary Muslim scholars of Islam

This article is an incomplete list of noted modern-era (20th to 21st century) Islamic scholars.

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List of da'is

The following is a list of notable Da'is, that is, Muslim preachers who invite people to Islam.

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List of Islamic jurists

This is a list of important Islamic Jurists (Faqeeh).

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List of Muslim astronomers

A Muslim astronomer is an astronomer who professes Islam and/or is engaged in Islamic astronomy.

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List of Muslim comparative religionists

Muslim comparative religionist is a Muslim scholar or preacher engaged in Islamic comparative religion studies.

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List of Muslim historians

The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the time of the first caliphs.

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List of Muslim philosophers

Muslim philosophers both profess Islam and engage in a style of philosophy situated within the structure of Islamic culture, though not necessarily concerned with religious issues.

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List of Muslim scientists

This is a list of scientists who have contributed significantly to science and civilization..

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List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars

This is a list of Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, consisting primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages.

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List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars

The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian scientists and engineers who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.

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List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam

*Syed Salman Akbar Rizvi (1986-Present).

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Lists of Maraji

Marja' are the supreme legal authority for twelver Shia Muslims.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Marmaduke Pickthall

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall, 7 April 187519 May 1936) was a Western Islamic scholar noted for his English translation of the Qur'an (1930).

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Martin Lings

Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English Muslim writer, scholar, and philosopher.

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Mathematics in medieval Islam

Mathematics during the Golden Age of Islam, especially during the 9th and 10th centuries, was built on Greek mathematics (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius) and Indian mathematics (Aryabhata, Brahmagupta).

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Michael Wolfe

Michael Wolfe (born 3 April 1945) is an American poet, author, and the President and Co-Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.

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Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad (محمد أسد /muħammad ʔasad/, محمد أسد, born Leopold Weiss; 12 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was a Jewish-born Austro-Hungarian Muslim journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, thinker, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar.

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Mullah

Mullah (ملا, Molla, ملا / Mollâ, Molla, মোল্লা) is derived from the Arabic word مَوْلَى mawlā, meaning "vicar", "master" and "guardian".

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Nuh Ha Mim Keller

Nuh Ha Mim Keller (born 1954) is an Islamic scholar, teacher and author who lives in Amman.

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Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta

The Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta (also the General Presidency of Scholarly Research and Ifta in Arabic, al-Lajnah ad-Daa'imah lil-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa اللجنة الدائمة للبحوث العلمية والإفتاء) is an Islamic organization in Saudi Arabia established by the King that issues rulings in Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and prepares research papers for the Council of Senior Scholars, which advises the king on religious matters.

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Roger Garaudy

Roger Garaudy, later Ragaa Garaudy (17 July 1913 – 13 June 2012) was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a prominent communist author.

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Sherman Jackson

Sherman A. Jackson, also known as Abdul Hakim Jackson is an American scholar of Islam.

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Siraj Wahhaj

Siraj Wahhaj (born Jeffrey Kearse (سراج وهاج), March 11, 1950) is an African-American imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn,Samory Rashid, Black Muslims in the US: History, Politics, and the Struggle of a Community, p 120.

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Suhaib Webb

Suhaib Webb is an American Muslim Imam who converted from Christianity to Islam in 1992.

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Timothy Winter

Timothy John Winter (born 1960), also known as Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, is an English Sunni Muslim scholar, researcher, writer and academic.

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Ulama

The Arabic term ulama (علماء., singular عالِم, "scholar", literally "the learned ones", also spelled ulema; feminine: alimah and uluma), according to the Encyclopedia of Islam (2000), in its original meaning "denotes scholars of almost all disciplines".

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Warith Deen Mohammed

Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was a progressive African American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker (1975–2008) who disbanded the original Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1976 and transformed it into an orthodox mainstream Islamic movement, the World Community of Al-Islam in the West which later became the American Society of Muslims.

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Zaid Shakir

Zaid Shakir (born Ricky Daryl Mitchell (زيد شاكر), May 24, 1956) is a Muslim American scholar "Lonny Shavelson, Fred Setterberg", Under the Dragon: California's New Culture, Oakland Museum of California, Heyday Books, p.64, "Edward E. Curtis", The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, Columbia University Press, p.239, and co-founder of Zaytuna College"Edward E. Curtis", The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, Columbia University Press, p. 239, in Berkeley, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamic_studies_scholars

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