Shāh Walī Allāh: Quick Facts

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Abul Kalam Azad

Indian theologian

Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī

Indian mystic and theologian

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal

Muslim scholar

Ibn Taymiyyah

Muslim theologian

Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī

Muslim theologian

al-Muḥāsibī

Muslim theologian

Ibn Ḥazm

Spanish Muslim scholar

al-Ghazālī

Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī

Muslim theologian

Muḥammad ʿAbduh

Egyptian scholar and jurist

Tariq Ramadan

Swiss theologian and scholar

Abū Ḥanīfah

Muslim jurist and theologian

al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

Muslim scholar

Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah

Syrian bishop

Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī

Persian scholar

Ibn ʿAqīl

Muslim theologian

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb

Muslim theologian

Ibn al-Jawzī

Muslim educator

as-Suhrawardī

Persian mystic

Tok Kenali

Malaysian theologian