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Assessment

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Need: The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality

Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge
Mid Subject fills in more minor details
Low Subject is mainly of specialist interest.

This is a list of articles that might be of interest for the objectives of this project.

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Topics

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Importance Quality Issues Article name
Top Muslim scholars
Top Averroism
Top History_of_theology#Islamic_theology
Mid List of ayatollahs
High List of marjas
High Non-Muslim Islamic scholars

Theologies

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Importance Quality Issues Article name
Maturidi
Murji'ah
Mu'tazili
Al-Jabriyyah
Akhbari
Zahiri
Jariri

Groups and institutions

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Importance Quality Issues Article name
Permanent Committee
Al-Mawrid
ISTAC
Islamic Society of North America
European Council for Fatwa and Research
The Seven Fuqaha of Medina
Hanbali Scholars
Royal Asiatic Society

Scholars

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1st Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
1st century AH: 622719 CE
Top B Ali Shi'a and Sunni
Top B `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas Shi'a and Sunni
Top B Umar Sunni
High Start Sulaym ibn Qays Shi'a and Sunni
High Start Abd-Allah ibn Umar Sunni
Top Stub Ma'bad al-Juhani Sunni
High Start Urwah ibn Zubayr Sunni
High B Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud Sunni
High B Ubay ibn Ka'b Shi'a and Sunni
High B Said Ibn Al-Musayyib
High B Abu Hurairah Sunni
Start Masruq ibn al-Ajda'
Start Ahmad ibn Tawoos
Start Sahl ibn Sa'd
Start Alqama ibn Qays al-Nakha'i
Stub Aswad ibn Yazid
Stub Abdullah ibn Sailam
Start Ka'ab al-Ahbar
Start Raja Ibn Haywah
Start Ali bin Abu Talha
High Start Ferdowsi Shi'a
Stub Uqbah ibn Amir
B Geber

2nd Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
2nd century AH: 719816 CE
High Start Al-Nasa'i Sunni
High Start Ata ibn Abi Rabah Shi'a and Sunni
Top B Muhammad al-Baqir Shi'a and Sunni
Stub Rabi ibn Sabih
Sibawayh
Mid Start Mujahid ibn Jabr Shi'a and Sunni
Top B Malik ibn Anas Sunni
Top B Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man Sunni Hanafi
High Start Aban ibn abi-Ayyash Shi'a Twelver
Top Start Abu Suhail an-Nafi Sunni
Top Start Hasan al-Basri Sunni
High Start Ali ibn al-Madini Sunni
Low Stub Abd-Allah ibn Numayr Sunni
Top Start Abd al-Razzaq al-Sana'ani Sunni
Top Start Wasil ibn Ata Mu'tazilite
Top B Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i Sunni Shafi'i
Low Start Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri Sunni
High Stub Abd al-Hamid al-Katib Sunni
High Start Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa Sunni
Ibn Ishaq
Start Salamah ibn Dinar Shi'a and Sunni
Tawoos ibn Kaysaan
Wahb ibn Munabbih
Ka'b al-Ahbar
Sufyan al-Thawrt ibn Said
Amir ibn Abd al-Qays
Abu Muslim al-Khawlani
Uwais al-Qarni
Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym
Hammam ibn Munabbih
Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm
Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
Abd-al-Rahman al-Awzai
Abu Yusuf
Muhammad Ibn Wasi' Al-Azdi
Al-Waqidi
Stub Abu Yusuf Ya'qub Sunni Hanafi
Stub Abi Mekhnaf

3rd Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
3rd century AH: 816913 CE
High Start Ibn Maja Sunni
Start Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
High Start Hasan al-Askari Shi'a and Sunni?
Mid B Ibn al-Rawandi Controversial
Start Al-Tabarani Sunni
Top Start Al-Tirmidhi Sunni
Top Start Abu Da'ud Sunni
Top B Muhammad al-Bukhari Sunni
Top B Ahmad ibn Hanbal Sunni Hanbali
High B Al-Kindī Sunni
Top Start Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Sunni
High Stub Yahya ibn Ma'in Sunni
Start Al-Sakhawi Sunni
Top Start Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Sunni , former Mu'tazili
Top Stub Al-Jubba'i Mu'tazilite
High B Al-Jahiz
Stub Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Zuhri Sunni
Top Start Abu Dawood Sunni
Start Al-Asma'i
Start Al-Dinawari
Start Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari

4th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
4th century AH
Top FA, but no longer Al-Razi
Stub Abu Bakr al-Sajistani
Stub Shaikh Saduq Shi'a
Abu Yaqub Sijistani Shi'a
Al Amiri
Start Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahaawee Sunni Hanafi
B Al-Tahawi Sunni Hanafi
Top Start Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari Sunni
Top B Muhammad Ya'qub Kulainy Shi'a Twelver
Top Start Al-Farabi Sunni
Top Start Hakim al-Nishaburi Sunni
Mid Stub Ibn Sa'd Sunni
Top Stub Seyyed Razi Shi'a Twelver
Stub Abu Hilal al-Askari
Start Abu Mansur Al Maturidi
Start Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
Start Abu al-Faraj
Stub Al-Muqaddasi
Stub Abul Hasan al-Tabari

5th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
5th century AH
Start Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami Sunni
Start Al-Mawardi Sunni Shafi'i
Top B Avicenna Mu'tazilite
High Start Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi Sunni
Mid Start Al-Ghazali Sunni
Stub Imam al-Bayhaqi Sunni
Mid Stub Yusuf ibn Abd-al-Barr Sunni
Mid Start Ibn Hazm Sunni
Ibn Miskawayh
Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi

6th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
6th century AH
High Stub Imam As-Suhaili Sunni
High Start Abu-al-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi Sunni
Mid Start Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi Sunni
Low Start Al-Zamakhshari Mu'tazilite
Top Start Muhammad al-Idrisi Sunni
Low Stub Al-Baghawi Sunni
Top B Averroes Sunni Maliki
Low Start Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Sunni Shafi'i
Low Stub Ibn Asakir Sunni
Stub Qadi Iyad Sunni Maliki
Stub Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi Sufi
Stub Al-Raghib al-Isfahani
Start Ibn al-Khashshab (died 1125) Shi'a
Start Muhammad al-Shahrastani disputed

7th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
7th century AH
Stub Ibn Qudamah Sunni Hanbali
Top B Al-Dhahabi Sunni Shafi'i
Top B Ibn Arabi Sunni Sufi
Top B Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Sunni Sufi
High Start Sadr al-din al-Qunawi Sunni Sufi
Top B Ibn Taymiya Sunni Salafi
High Start Sibt ibn al-Jawzi Sunni Salafi
High B Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi Sunni
Low B Ibn Jubayr Sunni
High Start Al-Qurtubi Sunni Maliki
Stub Ibn Khallikan
High Start Ibn Abu al-Hadid Mu'tazilite
Ibn Sahl of Sevilla
Start Shihab al-Din Qarafi Sunni Maliki
Stub Muhammad bin Hasan al-Baghdadi
Start Al-Jazari
Start Baidawi

8th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
8th century AH
Mid Start Ibn al-Qayyim Sunni Salafi
GA Ibn Battuta Sunni Shafi'i
Stub Ibn Juzayy Sunni
Start Al-Hilli Shi'a
Mid Start Ibn Kathir Sunni
Stub Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi Sunni Maliki
Low Start Ibn Rajab Sunni
Mid B Ibn Khaldun Sunni
Start Ibn Abu al-Iz Sunni Hanafi
Stub Shams Tabraiz (missionary) Shi'a Ismaili
Top B Amir Khusro Sufi
Start Nizamuddin Auliya Sufi
Stub Shams-al-Din al-Kermani Sunni
Stub Ali al-Hamadani Sunni Shafi'i Sufi
Start Rashid al-Din Sunni

9th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
9th century AH
Stub Badr al-Din al-Ayni Sunni
Stub Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Sunni
Top Start Ibn Hajar Asqalani Sunni
Low Stub Al-Qastallani Sunni
Top B Zheng He Sunni

10th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
10th century AH
High B Suyuti Sunni
Low Stub Muhammad ibn Khwand
Top Start Ibn Sahl
Stub Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi Sunni
Stub Ali bn Ahmad al-Samhudi Sunni Shafi'i
Stub Muhammad Khwandamir Sunni

11th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
11th century AH
Low Stub Abd-al-Baqi al-Zurqani Sunni
High Stub Ali al-Qari Sunni Hanafi Sufi

12th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
12th century AH
Low Stub Muhammad al-Zurqani Sunni
Mid Stub Mahmud al-Alusi Sunni
Low Stub Shah Waliullah Sunni Sufi
Mohammed El Ifrani

13th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
13th century AH
Top B Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab Sunni Salafi
Stub Qadi Thanaullah Panipati Sunni
High Stub Shah Abdul Aziz Sunni Deobandi
High Start Muhammad ash-Shawkani Sunni , ex Zaidiyyah
High B Shaykh Ahmad Shi'a
Start Karl Gottlieb Pfander Non-Muslim
Stub Sulayman al-Qunduzi Sunni

14th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
14th century AH
Stub Taha Husain Sunni
Stub Syed Nazeer Husain Sunni
Start Shams-ul-haq Azeemabadi Sunni Salafi
Start Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di Sunni Hanbali
Top FA Muhammad Iqbal Sunni
High B Sayyid Qutb Sunni
High Start Muhammad Abduh Sunni
High B Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi Shi'a Twelver
Top B Ali Shariati Shi'a Twelver
Top B Said Nursî Sunni
B Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Top B Ashraf Ali Thanvi Sunni Deobandi
Start Muhammad Husayn Haykal Sunni
Top B Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi Sunni
High Start Amin Ahsan Islahi Sunni
High B Muḥammad Zakarīyā al-Kāndahlawī Sunni
Mid Start Muhammad Qutb Sunni Salafi
Mid Start Muhammad al-Tijani Shi'a Twelver, ex Salafi
Low Stub Waheed uz-Zaman Sunni Deobandi
Low Stub Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Sunni
Start Muhammad Taqi Usmani Sunni
Start Al-Kawthari Sunni
Low B Muhammad ibn al-Habib Sunni Sufi
Start Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari Sunni
Top Start Allameh Tabatabaei Shi'a Twelver
High Start Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr Shi'a Twelver
High Start Bint al-Hoda Shi'a Twelver
High Start Sayed Muhsin al-Hakim Shi'a Twelver
Top B Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Ahmadi
Start Mohammed Habib Shakir
Mid Start Abdulhakim Arvasi Sunni
High GA Malcolm X Sunni
High B Elijah Muhammad Nation of Islam
Start Syed Ameer Ali
Stub E. A. Belyaev
Stub Naseer Ahmad Nasir
B Maulana Muhammad Ali Ahmadi
Mid B Syed Sulaiman Nadvi Sunni
Start Yusuf an-Nabhani Sunni Sufi
Start David Samuel Margoliouth Non-Muslim
Start Arthur John Arberry Non-Muslim
B Louis Massignon Non-Muslim
Start Thomas Walker Arnold Non-Muslim
Start Henry Corbin Non-Muslim
Start Joseph Schacht Non-Muslim
B Richard Francis Burton Non-Muslim

15th Century

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
15th century AH
Top B Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz Sunni Salafi
High B Abdullah Yusuf Azzam Sunni Salafi
Top B Abul-Qassim Khoei Shi'a Twelver
Top B Abdul Majid al-Khoei Shi'a Twelver
Top B Ruhollah Khomeini Shi'a Twelver
High B Sa'id Akhtar Rizvi Shi'a Twelver
High Start Javed Ahmed Ghamidi Sunni (New Intellectual)[1]
Low B Taj El-Din Hilaly Sunni
Mid B Tahir-ul-Qadri Sunni
High Stub Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy Sunni
Mid Start Huseyin Hilmi Isik Sunni
B Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki Sunni Maliki
Top Start Rashad Khalifa Controversial
Fazlur Rahman
B Hakim Said
Muhammad Hamidullah
John Wansbrough Non-Muslim
William Montgomery Watt Non-Muslim
Annemarie Schimmel Non-Muslim
Donald Routledge Hill Non-Muslim
John Bagot Glubb Non-Muslim
Hasan M. Balyuzi Non-Muslim
Claude Cahen Non-Muslim

Currently alive

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
Currently alive
B Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri Sunni
Stub Azizah Y. al-Hibri
B Tariq Ramadan
Jamal Badawi
Ismail Poonawala
Stub Muhammad Akram Khan
Stub Umar Chapra
Stub Michael Sells
Low GA Cat Stevens
Stub Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini
Mid B Asra Nomani Controversial
Start Abdul Hadi Palazzi Sunni Shafi'i
Mid B Irshad Manji Controversial
Start Saud Al-Shuraim Sunni Salafi
Low B Omar Abdel-Rahman Sunni Salafi
Top B Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy Sunni
Start Moustapha Akkad Sunni
Start Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais Sunni
Stub Ahmad Shehab Sunni
B M. Cherif Bassiouni Sunni
Abdul Basit Ahmad Sunni
Mohammed Zakariya Sunni
Farid Esack Sunni
Start Khaled Abou El Fadl Sunni
Start Faisal Ahmad Shinwari Sunni
Start Talgat Tadzhuddin Sunni
Anwar Ibrahim Sunni Shafi'i
Mahathir bin Mohamad Sunni
Mid B Zakir Naik Sunni
Low Start Not a Islamic studies scholar Muhammad Abdul Bari Sunni
Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati Sunni Hanafi
Start Mohammad Hashim Kamali Sunni
B Nazim al-Qubrusi Controversial (New Age pseudo-Sufism)
Low Stub Khaleel Mohammed Qadiani tendancies (Non-Muslim), neither is he a traditional Islamic Scholar.
Muhammad Jawad Chirri Shi'a Twelver
Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri Shi'a Twelver
Start Reza Aslan Shi'a Twelver
B Hamid Dabashi Shi'a Twelver
Top B Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Shi'a Twelver
Vali Nasr Shi'a Twelver
Start Naser Makarem Shirazi Shi'a Twelver
B Mahdi al-Modarresi Shi'a twelver
Start Muhammad Legenhausen Shi'a twelver, ex-Catholic
Abdolkarim Soroush Shi'a twelver
Start Thomas McElwain Shi'a twelver, ex-Baptist
Start Mohammad Ishaq Al-Fayyad Shi'a twelver
Stub Abbas Ka'bi Shi'a twelver
Martin Forward Non-Muslim
Francis Edwards Peters Non-Muslim
B Bernard Lewis Non-Muslim
Michael Bonner Non-Muslim
Herbert Berg Non-Muslim
Patricia Crone Non-Muslim
Michael Cook (historian) Non-Muslim
Stub Joel Carmichael Non-Muslim
Stub Robert G. Hoyland Non-Muslim
Stub G. R. Hawting Non-Muslim
Start Alex Kronemer Non-Muslim
Start Karen Armstrong Non-Muslim
Stub Caesar E. Farah Non-Muslim
Start Mark Cohen Non-Muslim
Start Norman Stillman Non-Muslim

Undated

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Importance Quality Issues Article name Madhhab
Undated
Stub Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi Sunni
Shah Nimatullah Sunni Sufi
Ibn al-Arabi Sunni
High Start Shah Waliullah Sunni Sufi
Start Mujtaba Musavi Lari Shi'a Twelver
High Stub Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh Ibadi
High Stub Hisham ibn Urwah
Stub Malik ibn Aus Al-Hadathan
Stub Ibn Manzar
Stub Abd-al-Hamid Siddiqui Sunni Salafi
Stub Ibn Humaid Sunni Salafi
Stub Abdul Haqq Dehlavi Sunni
Stub Qazi Halb Burhan-ud-din Sunni

To do

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Maybe Sunnis

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Maybe Shi'a

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Maybe Sufis

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Maybe Mutazilite

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Others

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Converts

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Non-Muslims

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  1. ^ A term coined by Prof. Qasim Zaman for those who are not bound by ijma of earlier scholarly opinions and that they do not have Madrasah degrees