Fifty Key Figures in Islam

Fifty Key Figures in Islam

Explores the lives and thoughts of fifty influential figures in Islam and surveys a heritage which spans 1500 years.

Roy Jackson

New York : Routledge

2006

Prophet Muhammad (c. 570-632) -- Abu Bakr (c.570-634) -- Umar ibn al-Khattab (c.581-644) -- Ali ibn Abi Talib (c.596-661) -- Mu'awiya (c. 602-680) -- Abu Hanifa (c.699-767) -- Malik ibn Anas (c.709-795) -- Rabi'a of Basra (c.717-801) -- Muhammad al-Shafi'i (768-820) -- Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) -- Al-Ma'mun (786-833) -- Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi ('Alkindus') (c.801-873) -- Abu al-Hasan al-Ashari (837-935) -- Muhammad al-Tabari (839-923) -- Abu Nasr al-Farabi ('Avennasas') (c.870-950) -- Ubaydallah 'Al-Mahdi' (c.873-934) -- Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mawardi (972-1058) -- Abu Ali ibn Sina ('Avicenna') (980-1037) -- Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) -- Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari (1075-1144) -- Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd ('Averroes') (1126-1198) -- Salah al-Din ('Saladin') (1138-1193) -- Yahya Suhrawardi (1154-1191) -- Muhammad ibn Arabi (1165-1240) -- Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274) -- Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273) -- Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) -- Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) -- Al-Suyuti (1445-1505) -- Suleiman ('the Magnificent') (c.1494-1566) -- Akbar (1542-1605) -- Sadr al-Din Shirazi 'Mulla Sadra' (c.1572-1640) -- Shah Wali-Allah (1703-1762) -- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) -- Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) -- Sayyid Jamal al-Din 'Al-Afghani' (1838/9-1897) -- Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) -- Rashid Rida (1865-1935) -- Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1873-1938) -- Sayyid Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) -- Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi (1903-1979) -- Hasan al-Bana (1906-1949) -- Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) -- Muhammad Taha (1908-1985) -- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz ('Malcolm X') (1925-1965) -- Hasan Al-Turabi (b. 1932) -- Ali Shariati (1933-1977) -- Hasan Hanafi (b.1935) -- Rachid Ghannoushi (b. 1941) -- Abd al-Karim Soroush (b.1945).

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