List of modern-day Muslim scholars of Islam

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This article is a ist of modern-day (20th to 21st century) scholars of Islam who are themselves Muslim.

Geographical categories have been created based on commonalities in culture and language across the Muslim World. Non-Scholars (i.e. prominent lecturers, speakers, famous imams, political activists and others) whose scholarly credentials are not clear-cut have been listed at the bottom in a separate category. Female scholars are listed twice, the second time at the bottom in a separate category.

Contents

[edit] Sub-Saharan Africa

(includes Nigeria, West Africa, Mauritania, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and rest of East Africa, South Africa)

[edit] North Africa

(includes Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya)

[edit] Greater Levant

(includes Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt)

[edit] The Arabian Peninsula

(includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Gulf States)

[edit] Persia (Iran)

[edit] Western Europe

  • Ivan Aguéli Shaykh Abd al-Hadi Aqhili (1869–1917) Swedish-born Sufi and Islamic feminist.
  • Abdul Hadi Palazzi Shaykh Abdul Hadi Palazzi (1961–) Italy-born Sufi of Syrian origin, Secretary of the Italian Muslim Assembly, is active in refuting extremism and developing interfaith dialogue.
  • Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) German Jewish journalist and later foreign correspondent to the Middle East, Leopold Weiss converted to Islam and wrote several books including a highly regarded translation of the Qur'an.
  • Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss-born Frithjof Schuon was known as a philosopher, metaphysician and author of numerous books on religion and spirituality, writing primarily in French. He is also considered one of the chief representatives of the Perennialist School.

[edit] Eastern Europe

(includes Turkey, Albania, Bosnia,Kosovo)

[edit] Great Britain

  • Ahmad Thomson Rhodesian-born British barrister and Muslim convert Ahmad Thomson has several books to his credit.
  • Abdalqadir as-Sufi (1930-) Scotsman Abdalqadir as-Sufi is the leader of the Darqawi-Shadhili-Qadiri Sufi Tariqa, founder of the influential Murabitun Movement and author of numerous books on Islam, Sufism (Tasawwuf) and political theory.
  • Abdal Hakim Murad (1960-) British convert T.J. Winter is Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and has several translations of classical works to his credit.
  • Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936) Novelist and Orientalist; British convert M.M. Pictkhall is author of a famous translation, The meaning of the Holy Qur'an.
  • Martin Lings (1909–2005) was an English Sufi Muslim writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar. He held a BA in Arabic and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).
  • Abu-Abdullah Adelabu London based Nigerian born Muslim cleric, academic and publisher is the founder and Amir (i.e. President) of Awqaf Africa London and Awqaf Africa Muslim Open College.

[edit] East, Southeast, and Central Asia

(includes China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Malaysia, Central Asia)

[edit] North America

  • Abdul Alim Musa (1945-) is a Muslim American activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C., Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Philadelphia. Member of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT) and a well-known speaker around the world. He is founder and director of As-Sabiqun and the Institute of Counter-Zionist American Psychological Warfare.
  • Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips (1952-) Jamaican-born Dr. Philips based in Canada; is a TV personality and a prolific author of numerous books and audio material.
  • Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi (1975-) is an American Imam of Indian parentage, currently pursuing doctoral studies at Yale University, having graduated in Islamic Studies from Islamic University of Madinah.
  • Ahmad Kutty (1946-) Dr. Kutty, originally from Kerala, India, is a long-time founding member of numerous Islamic organizations in Canada, having completed his Doctoral studies in Shari’ah thought at McGill University.
  • Asma Barlas (1950-) Pakistani-born Professor. Barlas of New York is the author of several books on Islam and Muslims with emphasis of emancipatory interpretation of the Quran and Islamic feminism.
  • Faisal Kutty Lawyer, Activist and Legal Academic long active in North America. Currently teaches comparative law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and Valparaiso University School of Law in the United States.
  • Hamza Yusuf (1960-) Public speaker, Shaykh Hamza spent years studying Islam and Arabic in the Muslim world following his conversion to Sunni Islam in 1977. Recently co-founded California-based Zaytuna College to implement his vision of a revival of Islamic sciences.
  • Hassan Hathout, MD, PhD (1924-2009) is an Egyptian-American physician, scientist, professor, speaker, thinker, writer, poet, and ethicist, as well as an Islamic Scholar. He is the author of innumerable medical and non-medical books and articles.
  • Ingrid Mattson (1963-) Canadian Muslim convert Prof. Mattson holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago. In 2001, she was elected Vice-President of ISNA and in 2006 she was elected the first female President of the organization.
  • Jamal Badawi Egyptian-born Prof. Badawi is a long-time faculty at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a well-known author, activist, preacher and speaker on Islam and Muslims.
  • Jamaal al-Din M. Zarabozo (1960-) Former Imam of the Islamic Center of Boulder, Colorado, UC-Berkley graduate Imam Zarabozo, originally of Spanish heritage, is a prolific writer.
  • Jonathan A.C. Brown is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Washington with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a degree from bachelor's Georgetown, Magna Cum Laude.
  • Khaled Abou El Fadl (1963-) is a professor of law at the UCLA School of Law where he teaches Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law.
  • Laleh Bakhtiar (1938-) Chicago-based Iranian-American Muslim convert Dr. Bakhtiar is a psychologist, book publisher, editor, translator of numerous classical works, including The Sublime Quran, an English translation of the Qur'an. She has lectured extensively in both academic and religious institutions.
  • Leila Ahmed (1940-) Egyptian-born Ahmed is a Professor of Women's Studies and Religion at Harvard and has authored works on Islamic history and Muslim feminism.
  • Louay Safi (1955-) author, Islamic scholar, and human rights activist. He is prolerific writers whose work deals with issues of Human Rights, Islam and Modernity, and Islamic Law.
  • Muhammad al-Asi (1951-) is the 1st Islamic scholar to publish a tafseer of Quran directly into English. He has led a committed group of Muslims in exposing the Saudi-American occupation of the Islamic Center on Massachusetts Ave in D.C. for over 25 years every Jummuah.
  • Muqtedar Khan (1966-) Indian-born Prof and Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware has authored several books and articles on Islam, Islamic philosophy, international and interfaith relations. He has a reputation for a critical advocacy of tolerance and compassion in the understanding of Islam.
  • Muzammil H. Siddiqi (1943-) is an American Islamic scholar, theologian and chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America.
  • Nuh Ha Mim Keller (1954-) Translator of classical Islamic books and a specialist in Islamic Law and an authorised sheikh in tasawwuf (Sufism) in the Shadhili Sufi order and currently lives in Amman, Jordan.
  • Omid Safi is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he specializes on Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history.
  • Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933-) Iranian-born Prof. Nasr from George Washington University is a prolific writer in the fields of Islamic Esotericism, Sufism, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics.
  • Sherifa Zuhur is a Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with degrees in Islamic studies, Middle Eastern history and Middle Eastern politics and Arabic from UCLA, magna cum laude.
  • Sherman Jackson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Visiting Professor of Law and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • Taha Jabir Alalwani (1935-) Iraqi-born Dr. Alalwani was previously chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America. He writes frequently on the Islamization of Knowledge, the need for Ijtihad, and Muslim Minority Jurisprudence.
  • Wael Hallaq (1955-) Palestinian-American Dr. Hallaq is Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and has numerous academic works in the field of Islamic Law and Philosophy to his credit.
  • Zaid Shakir (1956-) Public speaker, Islamic scholar, and author. Imam Zaid spent years studying Islamic law, spirituality, and Arabic in the Muslim world following his conversion to Sunni Islam in 1977. Recently co-founded California-based Zaytuna College to implement the vision of a revival of Islamic sciences.
  • Zijad Delic (1965-), Bosnian-born activist, teacher, scholar and Executive Director of the Canadian Islamic Congress based in Canada.

[edit] South Asia

[edit] Pakistan

  • Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui is a Sunni Islamic scholar who translated the Sahih Muslim into English. This translation became well known and is a part of the USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts.
  • Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979) was Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a 20th century Islamic thinker. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of King Faisal International Award for his services 1979. He was also the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islamic revivalist party.
  • Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892-1954) Meerut-Madina
  • Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi (1926-2003) Karachi, Pakistan
  • Ali Sher Hyderi
  • Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997) was famous for his Urdu exegeses of Qur'an, Tadabbur-i-Qur’an—an exegesis that he based on Hamiduddin Farahi's (1863–1930) idea of thematic and structural coherence in the Qur'an.
  • Bashir Najafi (1942-), Pakistan-Iraq
  • Ehsan Elahi Zaheer (1945-1987), was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and author who studied under prominent scholars at the Medina University such as Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani and Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz.
  • Ghulam Ahmad Parvez (1906-1984)
  • Ghulam Muhammad Rizvi Nagpuri
  • Ghulam Murtaza Malik (d. 2002) was a mainstream television speaker and respected personality. He had been teaching Quran and other Islamic studies at various institutions in Pakistan and foreign countries.
  • Haq Nawaz Jhangvi (1954-1990) was the founder of the Sipah-e-Sahaba movement -- the goal of which was primarily to deter major Shia influence in Pakistan in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
  • Akif Saeed (1958-) is the founding member and the present Ameer of Tanzeem-e-Islami -- a movement which advocates the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate in Pakistan and worldwide.
  • Ahmad Raza Khan (1856-1921) was a Sunni Islamic scholar and sufi, whose works influenced the Barelvi movement of South Asia. He wrote on numerous topics, including law, religion, philosophy and the sciences. He was a prolific writer, producing nearly 1,000 works in his lifetime.
  • Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi (1888–1963) was a South Asian mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Khaksar movement.
  • Israr Ahmed (1932–2010) was a Islamic theologian and the founder of the Tanzeem-e-Islami, an off-shoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami. He also founded Anjuman Khuddam al-Quran for teaching of Arabic language and promotion of Quranic sciences which has branches operating in different parts of the world.
  • Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (1951–) is widely acclaimed as an authority on Quran exegesis and Islamic Jurisprudence. Ghamidi has extended the work of his mentor Amin Ahsan Islahi and is the founder of Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences which carries out research work in the various fields of Islamic sciences.
  • Khalid Masud (1935–2003), Lahore, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Taqi Usmani (1943-) pioneered the concept of Islamic banking in Pakistan when he established the Meezan Bank. He currently serves on the Shariah Board of notable Islamic banks and financial institutions in the world.
  • Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (1918–1998) was an eminent Pir (Spiritual Master) belonging to the Chistiyya chain of Sufis.
  • Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri (1941-1993) was renowned scholar of Islamic Sciences and modern science who authored a number of books on Islamic fiqh, economics and inheritance, and also translated some notable books from Arabic to Urdu.
  • Naseer Ahmad Nasir (1910-2000) was a notable philosopher and scholar. His biography of Muhammad, Paighambar e Azam O Aakhir, was one of the most important biographical works in Islam of recent times, and in 1978 it was selected as one of the best biographies of Muhammad by Rabita al-Alam al-Islami of the Muslim World League at Saudi Arabia.
  • Qamaruzzaman Azmi
  • Syed Tatheer Hussain Zaidi (1956), Lahore-Pakistan
  • Tahir ul Qadri (1951-) is a Sufi scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab. He is also the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, a broad-based global Sufi organization and the founding chairman of the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT).
  • Tariq Jameel (1953-), is a scholar belonging to the Tableeghi Movement which primarily focuses on revival of religious practices among the non-practicing Muslims.
  • Yousuf Ludhianvi (1932–2000) was a Muslim scholar and Vice President of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat (International Council for the Protection of Finality of Prophethood)-- a movement which set its objectives as creating awareness among the masses about the difference between Muslims and Ahmadiyya/Qadianis, and preventing Qadianis from calling themselves Muslims.
  • Zafar Ishaq Ansari (1932-), Pakistan
  • Zar Wali Khan (1955-) is the founder of the Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary located in Karachi, Pakistan. The seminary is notable for being one of the first Deobandi institutions to offer the Takhassus (PhD equivalent degree leading to Mufti status) degree program to women.
  • Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi

[edit] India

[edit] Bangladesh

[edit] Female Scholars

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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