25 results for “imam”
Clear filter... and preserved in the Sirah of Ibn Hisham and the Musnad of Imam Ahmad, is the single most detailed account of a seeker of t...
...ets, scholars, musicians, and jurists — including the great Imam Malik, with whom he corresponded. His era is romanticized i...
...divine nature of Allah's speech. The hero of this trial was Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, who endured imprisonment and flogging rat...
...'tazilite doctrine of the createdness of the Quran, honored Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and ordered the teaching of Sunni theolog...
... Quran, and theology. Its most famous teacher was the great Imam al-Ghazali, who taught there before his spiritual crisis an...
Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (450–505 AH), after a profound spiritu...
Imam Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man ibn Thabit, the founder of the Hanafi ...
Imam Malik ibn Anas, the scholar of Medina and founder of the Ma...
Imam Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i, who revolutionized Islamic ...
...reated, testing scholars and imprisoning those who refused. Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal famously resisted, enduring flogging and i...
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, who endured imprisonment and torture duri...
Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari completed his monumental had...
Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj completed his Sahih, considered the se...
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, the great polymath, historian, and Quran commentator, died in Baghdad. His Tafsir al-Tabari remains the most comprehens
Imam al-Haramayn Abu al-Ma'ali al-Juwayni, the leading Ash'ari t...
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali, known as Hujjat al-Islam (Proof of Islam), died in Tus. His Ihya Ulum ad-Din (Revival of the Religious Sciences) remains one of t
Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Qurtubi, the Maliki jurist and Quran commentator, died in Upper Egypt. His Tafsir al-Jami li-Ahkam al-Quran is one of the most importan
Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi died at just 45 years old, havin...
Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi, one of the greatest Muslim historians and hadith scholars, died in Damascus. His Siyar A'lam al-Nubala is a monumental biographical dic
Imam Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir, the renowned Shafi'i scholar a...
Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi, the great Maliki jurist of Granada, died. His al-Muwafaqat is the most important work on the objectives and purposes of Islamic law.
Imam Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, known as Amir al-Mu'mi...
Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti, one of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history, died in Cairo. He authored over 500 works on hadith, tafsir, fiqh, Arabic language
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, one of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history with over 500 works, died in Cairo. His al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran is the most compr
Imam Shamil led decades-long resistance against Russian imperial...