ʿAbd al-Salām Yāsīn: Quick Facts

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al-Muḥāsibī

Muslim theologian

al-Mahdī

Sudanese religious leader

Rūmī

Sufi mystic and poet

Baba Mondi

Albanian religious leader

al-Ḥallāj

Islamic mystic

al-Ghazālī

Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic

Aşık Paşa

Turkish author

Ahmed Yesevi

Turkish author

Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī

Islamic mystic

Jāmī

Persian poet and scholar

ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī

Syrian author

ad-Damīrī

Muslim theologian

Bedreddin

Ottoman theologian

Yunus Emre

Turkish poet

al-Shādhilī

Muslim mystic

al-Fāsī

Islamic teacher and mystic [1530-1604]

Sayyid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan

Somalian leader

Sheikh Ahmad Yassin

Palestinian religious leader

Muhammad Atef

al-Qaeda leader

Burhanuddin Rabbani

president of Afghanistan