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medieval Al-Biruni

..., and comparative religion, including his landmark study of India (Kitab al-Hind).

ottoman Shah Waliullah Dehlawi

The most influential scholar of the Indian subcontinent, translator of the Quran into Persian.

modern Siddiq Hasan Khan

Indian scholar and ruler (Nawab of Bhopal through marriage). A pr...

modern Abdul-Hayy al-Lacknawi

Indian Hanafi scholar and hadith expert, author of at-Taliq al-Mu...

modern Abdul-Hayy al-Laknawi

Indian Hanafi scholar and muhaddith who authored over 100 works i...

modern Ahmad Rida Khan

Indian Hanafi scholar and founder of the Barelvi movement. Author...

modern Shams al-Haqq al-Azimabadi

Indian hadith scholar and author of Awn al-Ma'bud, a major commen...

modern al-Mubarakfuri

Author of Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi, a major commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi.

modern Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Indian Hanafi scholar and leading figure of the Deobandi school, ...

modern Abu al-Ala al-Mubarakpuri

...ehensive and widely used commentary on Jami at-Tirmidhi. An Indian scholar of the Ahl al-Hadith tradition.

modern Muhammad Iqbal

Philosopher, poet, and political thinker who inspired the creation of Pakistan.

modern Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi

Indian scholar and founder of the Tablighi Jama'at, one of the la...

modern Abul Ala al-Mawdudi

Author of Tafhim al-Quran and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, a major Islamic revivalist thinker.

modern Manzoor Nomani

Indian Deobandi scholar and author of 'Ma'arif al-Hadith,' a popu...

ottoman az-Zabidi

Indian-born scholar who settled in Cairo, author of 'Taj al-Arus,...

modern al-Lucknawi

Indian Hanafi prodigy who authored over 100 scholarly works befor...

modern al-Kashmiri

Indian Deobandi scholar celebrated for his extraordinary memory a...

ottoman Muhammad Hayat as-Sindhi

Sindhi hadith scholar based in Medina who taught Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab, influencing major reform movements.

modern Abu al-Hasan an-Nadwi

Indian Islamic scholar and author of 'Madha Khasira al-Alam bi In...

modern al-Mubarakfuri (Tuhfah)

Indian hadith scholar, author of 'Tuhfat al-Ahwadhi,' the most co...

modern Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani

Indian scholar and author of 'Nuzhat al-Khawatir,' an eight-volum...

modern Muhammad Zubayr Siddiqi

Indian Muslim academic and author of 'Hadith Literature,' an impo...

medieval Muhammad ibn Qasim al-Thaqafi

...age of 17-20 (92-96 AH / 711-715 CE), bringing Islam to the Indian subcontinent. He defeated Raja Dahir of Sindh and establis...

medieval Ibn Battuta

...slamic world and beyond — from Morocco to Mali, Anatolia to India, and China. His Rihla (Travels), dictated to Ibn Juzayy, re...

ottoman Zayn al-Din al-Malibari

South Indian Shafi'i scholar, author of Fath al-Mu'in, the foundational...

late-classical Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi

Foremost Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent; synthesizer of the four madhabs and author o...

late-classical Abd al-Haqq al-Dihlawi

Pioneer of hadith studies in India; author of Ashi'at al-Lam'at (commentary on Mishkat) and in...

modern Abd al-Hayy al-Lacknawi

19th-century Indian Hanafi scholar and hadith expert; author of al-Raf' wa al-...

ottoman Shah Wali Allah al-Dihlawi

The greatest Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent. Author of Hujjat Allah al-Balighah, a landma...

modern Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi

...age of the Ummah). The most prolific Islamic scholar of the Indian subcontinent, writing over 1,000 works on every Islamic sc...

modern Anwar Shah Kashmiri

The greatest hadith scholar of the Indian subcontinent in the 20th century. Known for his extraordin...

modern Rashid Ahmad Gangohi

...ul Uloom Deoband and leading Hanafi scholar of 19th-century India.

modern Ashraf Ali Thanawi

Greatest Islamic scholar of 20th century India. His Bahishti Zewar is the most widely read Islamic guide f...

contemporary Abu al-Hasan al-Nadwi

Indian Islamic scholar whose 'What Has the World Lost due to the ...

modern Manazir Ahsan Gilani

... Islamic economics and the history of Islamic philosophy in India.

modern Hussain Ahmad Madani

Indian Deobandi scholar who spent years in Medina and opposed par...

contemporary Mustafa al-Azami

...holar (1932-2017 CE), professor at King Saud University and Indiana University, known for his landmark academic defenses of h...

contemporary Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

An Indian Islamic scholar (1942-2006 CE) who won the World Muslim Le...

contemporary Akbar Shah Najeebabadi

An Indian Islamic historian (1856-1938 CE) known for his comprehensi...

contemporary Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalwi

A senior leader of the Tablighi Jamaat (1917-1965 CE) and author of the multi-volume Hayat al-Sahabah (Lives of the Companions), an encyclopedic collection of c

contemporary Ahmad Deedat

A South African Muslim author and orator (1918-2005 CE), founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), known for comparative religion debates