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Also Known As Sharaf al-Dīn Abū Saʿd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Hibat Allāh ibn Muṭahhar al-Tamīmī al-Mawṣilī ibn Abī ʿAṣrūn • al-Dimashqī • al-Ḥalabī
Born February 1099 or February 1100 • Iraq
Died October 1189 or November 1189 (aged 90) • Damascus • Syria
Subjects Of Study Islam • Shāfiʿī
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
Muslim theologian
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Ibn Taymiyyah
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
A scholar and reformer
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Egyptian scholar and jurist
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian theologian
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Ibn ʿAqīl
Muslim theologian
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī
Muslim legist
Shāh Walī Allāh
Indian Muslim theologian
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Muslim theologian
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic