# List of Muslim theologians

This is a list of notable Muslim theologians.

## Traditional theologians and philosophers
### Ash'aris and Maturidis

* Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
* Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
* Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi
* Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi
* Ibn Hibban
* Ibn Furak
* Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
* Abu Ishaq al-Isfara'ini
* Abu al-Walid al-Baji
* Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
* Adud al-Din al-Iji
* 'Ala al-Din al-Baji
* Al-Bayhaqi
* Al-Baqillani
* Al-Qushayri
* Al-Shahrastani
* Al-Juwayni
* Ahmad al-Rifa'i
* Al-Ghazali
* Al-Baydawi
* Al-Maziri
* Ali Qushji
* Ali al-Qari
* Al-Sharif al-Jurjani
* Diya' al-Din al-Makki
* Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
* Sayf al-Din al-Amidi
* Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam
* Taqi al-Din al-Subki
* Ibrahim al-Desuqi
* Taj al-Din al-Subki
* Jalal al-Din al-Dawani
* Zakariyya al-Ansari
* Ibn Aqil
* Ibn al-Jawzi
* Ibn Khaldun
* Ibn Tumart
* Ibn Arafa
* Ibn Ashir
* 'Illish
* Ibn Abi Zayd
* Qadi Ayyad
* Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
* Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi
* Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi
* Sa'd al-Din al-Taftazani
* Najm al-Din al-Qazwini al-Katibi
* Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
* Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati
* Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi
* Abdel Qadir al-Jilani
* Abd al-Rahman al-Thaalbi
* Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
* Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi
* Al-Maqqari al-Tilmisani
* Al-Sha'rani
* Al-Bahūtī
* Al-Maydani
* Ad-Desouki
* Ahmad Sirhindi
* Ahmad al-Dardir
* Ibrahim al-Bajuri
* Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
* Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
* Ahmad Rida Khan
* Rahmatullah Kairanawi
* Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari
* Muhammad Mayyara
* Murtada al-Zabidi
* Muhammad Abu Zahra
* Yusuf al-Nabhani
* Muhammad Metwally al-Sha'rawy
* Ahmed Deedat
* Abdullah al-Harari
* Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti
* Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki
* Noah Qudah
* Ali Gomaa

### Mu'tazilis

* Wasil ibn 'Ata'
* Al-Qadi 'Abd al-Jabbar
* Al-Jubba'i
* Al-Jahiz
* Al-Zamakhshari
* Ibrahim al-Nazzam

### Others

* Abu Muslim
* Al-Dinawari
* Al-Farabi
* Sayyid Ali Hamadani
* Al-Kindi
* Ibn Hazm
* Ibn Sina
* Ibn Taymiya
* Ibn al-Qayyim
See also early Muslim philosophy, Islamic philosophy

## Early Sunni theologians and philosophers

* Abu Hanifa
* Al-Shafi‘i
* Malik ibn Anas
* Ahmad ibn Hanbal
* Dawud al-Zahiri
* Tahawi
* Junayd of Baghdad
* Harith al-Muhasibi

### Imams of hadith

* Bukhari
* Muslim
* Abu Da'ud
* Tirmidhi
* Nasa'i
* Ibn Maja

## Medieval theologians and philosophers

* Al-Biruni
* Al-Battani (Albatenius)
* Al-Buzjani
* Al-Farabi (Alpharabius)
* Al-Farghani
* Al-Ghazali (Algazel)
* Al-Idrisi
* Al-Zarnuji
* Al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi)
* Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
* Al-Masu'di
* Al-Mawardi
* Ibn al-Baitar
* Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
* Ibn al-Nafis
* Ibn Khaldun
* Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
* Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
* Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
* Kemalpaşazade
* Molla Fenari
* Omar Khayyám
* Sayyid Ali Hamadani (Preacher and traveller)

## Modern theologians

* Sa'id Foudah
* A F M Khalid Hossain
* Abdul Baqi Miftah
* Abdolkarim Soroush
* Abdur Rahman Bangladeshi
* Abdul Halim Bukhari
* Abdul Matin Chowdhury
* Abdul Qadeer Khan
* Ahmed Rida Khan
* Allama Khalid Mahmood
* Ashraf Ali Thanwi
* Akhtar Raza Khan
* Ali Shariati
* Alija Izetbegović
* Anwar Shah Kashmiri
* Bilal Philips
* Ebrahim Desai
* Fazlur Rahman
* Hussain Ahmed Madani
* Idries Shah
* Inayat Khan
* Ismail Al-Faruqi
* Israr Ahmed
* Junaid Babunagari
* Khaled Abou Al-Fadl
* Leila Ahmed
* Mahmudul Hasan
* Mamunul Haque
* Mahmud Hasan Deobandi
* Mawlana Muhammad Ilyas
* Mostafa Hosseini Tabatabaei
* Muhammad Abdul Wahhab
* Mohammed Amine Smaili
* Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
* Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi
* Muhammad Rafi Usmani
* Muhammad Shafi Deobandi
* Muhammad Taqi Usmani
* Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi
* Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
* Muzaffer Ozak
* Nurul Islam Olipuri
* Nasiruddin Albani
* Necmettin Erbakan (Millî Görüş)
* Nur Hossain Kasemi
* Nur Uddin Gohorpuri
* Shah Ahmad Shafi
* Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
* Said Nursi
* Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi
* Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi
* Sherman Jackson
* Seyyed Hossein Nasr
* Siraj Wahaj
* Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
* Syed Nazeer Husain
* Tariq Jameel
* Yusuf Motala
* Ziauddin Sardar
See also modern Islamic philosophy, Islamization of knowledge

## Shi'a imams
### Athnā‘ashariyyah-The Twelve Imams

* Ali ibn Abi Talib
* Hasan ibn Ali
* Husayn ibn Ali
* Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
* Muhammad al-Baqir
* Jafar Sadiq
* Musa al-Kazim
* Ali al-Rida (Ali Raza)
* Muhammad al-Taqi
* Ali al-Hadi (Ali Naqi)
* Hasan al-Askari
* Muhammad al-Mahdi

### Zaidiyyah imams

* Ali ibn Abu Talib
* Hasan ibn Ali
* Husayn ibn Ali
* Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
* Zayd ibn Ali

### Isma'ili imams

* Ali ibn Abu Talib (Nizari Isma'ili and Qarmatian-Sevener only; Asās/Wāsīh in Musta'li Isma'ili)
* Hasan ibn Ali (Qarmatian-Sevener and Musta'li Isma'ili only; Pir in Nizari)
* Husayn ibn Ali
* Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin
* Muhammad al-Baqir
* Jafar Sadiq
* Ismāʿīl ibn Jaʿfar
* Maymūn Al-Qaddāḥ (Musta'li and Nizari Isma'ili only)

### Others

* Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
* Sharif al-Murtaza
* Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
* Al-Hilli
* Zurarah ibn A'yan
* Hisham ibn Hakam
* Agha Zia Addin Araghi
* Ja'far Sobhani

## Historiographers, political scientists, and sociologists

* Al-Masudi
* Ibn al-Tiqtaqa
* Ibn Hisham
* Ibn Ishaq
* Ibn Kathir
* Ibn Khaldoun
* Ibn Khallikan
* Mahdi ElMandjra
* Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
* Sayyid Qutb
* Tabari
* Usamah ibn Munqidh