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... to the people of Ad, who were destroyed for rejecting his message.
Son of Ibrahim and Sarah, father of Yaqub, and ancestor of the Israelite prophets.
...iya, a noble and chaste prophet who confirmed the coming of Isa.
Born miraculously to Maryam, given the Injil, performed miracles by Allah permission, and was raised to heaven.
...uthful in speech, likening his solitary devotion to that of Isa ibn Maryam.
... and pioneer of usul al-fiqh with his foundational work al-Risalah.
...of usul al-fiqh (principles of jurisprudence). His book al-Risalah is the first systematic work on Islamic legal theory.
...us the word 'algorithm.' His work al-Kitab al-Mukhtasar fi Hisab al-Jabr wal-Muqabalah founded the field of algebra.
Compiler of Jami at-Tirmidhi, notable for including scholarly evaluations and fiqh discussions with each hadith. A student of Imam al-Bukhari.
Author of 'ar-Risalah al-Qushayriyyah,' one of the most important classical te...
Syrian Shadhili scholar and author of 'Haqa'iq an at-Tasawwuf' (Realities of Sufism), a widely read defense and explanation of orthodox Sufism.
Author of 'Lisan al-Arab,' the most comprehensive classical dictionary of t...
...om Tarim, author of influential spiritual works including 'Risalat al-Mu'awanah' and 'an-Nasa'ih ad-Diniyyah.'
Mother of Prophet Isa AS, one of the four greatest women in Islamic history, the ...
The righteous man from whose family both Maryam and Isa AS descend, giving his name to Surah Ali Imran.
...ah's service — an act the Quran honors as the foundation of Isa's lineage.
The greatest of the angels, the Angel of Revelation who brought the Quran to the Prophet ﷺ and was the messenger between Allah and all the prophets.
...siah who will claim divinity and be killed by the return of Isa AS.
The dedicated companions of Prophet Isa AS who declared 'We are the helpers of Allah' — mentioned i...
An Ansari elder of the Banu Salimah clan who was lame but insisted on fighting at Uhud despite the Prophet's offer to excuse him, declaring he wished to walk wi
...alik,' the leading Maliki scholar of his age, author of al-Risalah, the most popular Maliki fiqh primer in history.
One of the seven canonical Quran reciters; also the leading grammarian of the Kufi school of Arabic linguistics.
...e for including grades on each hadith and noting scholarly disagreements.
...cholar of Qayrawan (Tunisia) in the 4th century AH. His al-Risalah al-Mufassalah is the foundational classical text on Isla...
Turkish Islamic scholar whose Risale-i Nur (Epistles of Light) is one of the most widely read ...
...he encyclopedic fiqh text of the Zahiri school, and his al-Fisal is major comparative religion.
...ic defenses of hadith authenticity and winner of the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies in 1980.
...tor, author of Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past (2014), widely read among English-speakin...
...esearch Advisor at the Islamic Development Bank, and King Faisal Prize laureate for his foundational works on Islamic econo...
A South African Muslim author and orator (1918-2005 CE), founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), known for comparative religion debates
...ather of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh). Author of al-Risalah, the first systematic work on jurisprudence. Studied und...