# List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam

Shia Muslim scholars of Islam include:

## Alive

* Khorasani, Hossein Vahid (b. 1921)
* Hamedani, Hossein Noori (b. 1925)
* Jannati, Ahmad (b. 1927)
* Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (b. 1927)
* Naser Makarem Shirazi (b. 1927)
* al-Fayyad, Mohammad Ishaq (b. 1930)
* al-Sistani, Ali (b. 1930)
* al-Qazwini, Mortada (b. 1931)
* Najafi, Mohammad Hussain (b. 1932)
* Jannaati, Mohammad Ebrahim (b. 1933)
* Ostadi, Reza (b. 1937)
* al-Haeri, Kazem (b. 1938)
* Khamenei, Ali (b. 1939)
* Najafi, Bashir (b. 1942)
* Shirazi, Sadiq (b. 1942)
* al-Tijani, Mohammad (b. 1943)
* al-Kourani, Ali (b. 1944)
* Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar (b. 1944)
* al-Modarresi, Muhammad Taqi (b. 1945)
* Fallahian, Ali (b. 1945)
* Khoeiniha, Mohammad (b. 1945)
* Moezi, Abdolhossein (b. 1945)
* Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin (b. 1946)
* al-Modarresi, Hadi (b. 1948)
* Rouhani, Hassan (b. 1948)
* Shooshtari, Mohammad Ismaeil (b. 1949)
* Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali (b. 1950)
* Noori, Abdollah (b. 1950)
* Naqvi, Jawad (b. 1952)
* Ansari, Majid (b. 1954)
* Mousavi-Lari, Abdolvahed (b. 1954)
* Younesi, Ali (b. 1955)
* Araki, Mohsen (b. 1956)
* Mohseni-Ejehei, Gholam Hossein (b. 1956)
* Bagheri, Khosrow (b. 1957)
* Rizvi, Muhammad (b. 1957)
* Boroujerdi, Hossein Kazemeyni (b. 1958)
* Mohsen Kadivar (b. 1959)
* Abtahi, Mohammad Ali (b. 1960)
* Khatami, Ahmad (b. 1960)
* Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (b. 1960)
* Nassab, Reza Hosseini (b. 1960)
* Yaqubi, Mohammad (b. 1960)
* Leghaei, Mansour (b. 1962)
* al-Gharavi, Aqeel (b. 1964)
* Salman, Ali (b. 1965)
* Naqvi, Ali Naqi (b. 1970)
* Hasan, Hamidul
* Masoumi-Tehrani, Abdol-Hamid
* al-Saghir, Jalal al-Din Ali

## Deceased
### 7th century

* Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (died c.695)
* Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī (665–714)
* Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi (b. between 661 and 680, died 744–746)
* Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Fīrūz) al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash (died 746–757)
* Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib (died c.758)
* Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi (680-c.765)
* Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan (c.690 - c.767)
* Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh (b. in the second half of the seventh century)
* Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi (b. in the late seventh century)

### 8th century

* Abu Mikhnaf (died 774)
* Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī (died before 765)
* al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah (d. 767)
* Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi (died 767)
* Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (died 767)
* Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c.721 – c.815)
* Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman (723–819)
* Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī (died 825)
* Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
* Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti(769–836)
* Hasan b. Mahbub (766–839)
* Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī (died 839)
* Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm (789–866)
* ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
* Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi (b. in the middle of the 8th century)

### 9th century

* Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi (died 870)
* Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī (died 873)
* Al-Kindi (died 873)
* Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (c.811 - c.879)
* Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti (died 879)
* Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari (died c. 890)
* Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi (died 890)
* Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi (c.815 - c.887/894)
* Ya'qubi (died 898)
* Ahmad ibn A'tham (died 926)
* Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh (died c.940)
* al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (864–941)
* Al-Farabi (c.872-950)
* Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi (died c. 951)
* Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi (c.883-954)
* Al-Masudi (c. 896–956)
* Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi (lived late of ninth century until the half of the tenth century)
* Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi (lived during the second half of the ninth and beginning of tenth centuries)
* ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī (lived in 9th century)
* Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (lived in 9th century)
* Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi (b. before 817–868)

### 10th century

* Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari (b. c.900)
* Ibn Qulawayh (died c. 979)
* Ibn Babwayh (Shaykh al-Saduq) (923–991)
* Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 995)
* Al-Sharif al-Radi (970–1015)
* Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Shaykh al-Mufid) (948–1022)
* Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir (d.1032)
* Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD)
* Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044)
* Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi (982–1058)
* Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067)
* Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902)
* Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi (lived in 10th century)

### 11th century

* Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010)
* Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015)
* Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029)
* al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan (1093–1153)
* Ashub, Ibn Shahr (1095–1192)

### 12th century

* Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī (d. 1110)
* Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī (d. 1119)
* Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1121)
* Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī (author of al-Iḥtijāj) (d. 1192)
* Sayyed Ibn Tawus (1193–1266)

### 13th century

* Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)
* Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (c.1205–1277)
* al-Bahrani, Maytham (1238–1299)
* al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah) (1250–1325)

### 14th century

* Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī (d. 1335)
* Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī (d. 1353)
* Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1354)
* Muḥammad al-Ḥillī (Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn) (d. 1369)

### 15th century

* Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī (d. 1399)
* Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī (d. 1410)
* Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī (Ibn al-Mutawwaj) (d. 1416)
* Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī (Ṣāḥib al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) (d. 1472)

### 16th century

* Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir (Mir Damad) (d. 1631)
* Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad (Mullah Sadra) (1571–1640)
* al-Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi (Al-Majlisi al-Awwal) (1594–1660)

### 17th century

* al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (Allamah) (1616–1689)
* al-Āmili, Hur (1624–1693)
* al-Jaza'iri, Ni'matullah (1640–1700)
* al-Samahiji, Abdullah (1675–1723)
* al-Haeri, Nasrallah (1696–1746)
* al-Bahrani, Yusuf (1695–1772)

### 18th century

* Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir (1706–1792)

### 19th century

* al-Ansari, Murtada (d. 1864)
* Musavi, Hamid Husayn (1830 - 1880)
* Shirazi, Abdullah (1892–1984)
* Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha (??-1892)
* Shirazi, Mirza Hasan (1814–1896)
* Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim (1839–1911)
* al-Sadr, Ismail (??-1920)
* al-Sadr, Haydar (1891–1937)
* Modarres, Hasan (1870–1937)
* Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri (1859–1937)
* Hasan, Najmul (1863–1938)
* Esfahani, Muhammad Hossein Qaravi (1879–1942)
* Roshdieh, Hasan (1851–1944)
* Yusuf Ali, Abdullah (1872–1953)
* Kashani, Abul Qasim (1884–1961)
* Borujerdi, Husayn (1875–1962)
* al-Hakim, Muhsin (1889–1970)
* Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin (1894–1971)
* Yazdi, Mahdi Puya (1899–1973)
* Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn (1892–1981)
* Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain (1932–1989)
* al-Khoei, Abul Qasim (1899–1992)
* Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza (1898–1993)
* Araki, Muhammad Ali (1895–1994)
* Arbab, Rahim (1874-??)
* ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din (1848-??)

### 20th century

* al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din (1882–1954)
* Rizvi, Ahmad (1901–1964)
* Rizvi, Mohsin Nawab (1911–1969)
* Amini, Abdul Hosein (1902–1970)
* Turabi, Allamah Rasheed (1908–1973)
* al-Sadr, Musa (1929–1978)
* Taleghani, Mahmoud (1911–1979)
* Motahhari, Morteza (1920–1979)
* al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–1980)
* Beheshti, Muhammad (1928–1981)
* Bahonar, Muhammad Javad (1933–1981)
* Shariatmadari, Kazem (1904–1985)
* Naqvi, Kalbe Abid (1923–1986)
* Naqvi, Ali Naqi (1905–1988)
* Khomeini, Ruhullah (1900–1989)
* al-Musawi, Abbas (1952–1992)
* Naqvi, Aqa Hasan (1935–1996)
* al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq (1943–1999)
* Jawadi, Syed Zeeshan Haider (1938–2000)
* Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi (1936–2001)
* Shirazi, Muhammad (1928–2001)
* Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar (1927–2002)
* Rizvi, Syed Ali Akhtar (1948–2002)
* Khalkhali, Sadegh (1927–2003)
* al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir (1939–2003)
* al-Khoei, Abdul Majid (1962–2003)
* al-Waeli, Ahmed (1928–2003)
* Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez (1940–2004)
* al-Jamri, Abdul Amir (1937–2006)
* Ansari, Mustafa Hussain (1945–2006)
* Tabrizi, Mirza Javad (1926–2006)
* 'Askari, Murtada Sharif (1914–2007)
* Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel (1931–2007)
* Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza (1931–2008)
* al-Hakim, Abdul Aziz (1952–2009)
* Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat (1913–2009)
* Montazeri, Hossein-Ali (1922–2009)
* Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
* Zanjani, Abbasali Amid (1937–2011)
* Rezvani, Gholamreza (1922–2013)
* Burhanuddin, Mohammed (1915–2014)
* Mahdavi Kani, Mohammad Reza (1931–2014)
* Bahr al-Ulloum, Mohammad (1923–2015)
* Ardebili, Abdul Karim Mousavi (1926–2016)
* Tabasi, Abbas Vaez (1935–2016)
* Aliari, Javad Gharavi (1935–2018)
* Jafri, Husain Mohammad (1923–2019)
* Kabuli, Qurban Ali (1928–2019)
* Shahroudi, Mohammad (1925–2019)
* Najafabadi Ibrahim Amini (1925–2020)
* Sadiq, Kalbe (1939–2020)
* Sanei, Yousef (1937–2020)
* Taskhiri, Mohammad-Ali (1944–2020)
* Yazdi, Mohammad (1931–2020)
* al-Hakim, Mohammad Saeed (1936–2021)
* Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Taghi (1934–2021)
* Mohtashami-Pur, Ali Akbar (1947–2021)
* Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
* Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi (1919–2022)
* Reyshahri, Mohammad (1946–2022)
* Rohani, Sadeq (1926–2022)
* Sane'i, Hassan (1934–2023)
* Emami, Mohammad (1931–2024)