List of Islamic jurists

Notable faqīh include:

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Sunni jurists

• Abu Hanifa
• Malik ibn Anas
• Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i
• Ahmad ibn Hanbal
• Sufyan al-Thawri
• Al-Awza'i
• Al-Hasan al-Basri
• Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
• Muhammad al-Bukhari
• Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
• Abu Yusuf
• Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la
• Muhammad al-Shaybani
• Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali al-Barbahari
• Sahnun
• Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Dawud al-Zahiri
• Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi
• Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi
• Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam
• Ibn Hazm
• Al-Ghazali
• Ibn Khaldun
• Sidi Boushaki
• Ibn Rushd
• Al-Nawawi
• Ibn Taymiyyah
• Ibn al-Qayyim
• Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
• Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
• Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
• Al-Suyuti
• Al-Qurtubi
• Azizul Haque (scholar)
• Al-Bahūtī
• Al-Marghinani
• Ibn Abidin
• Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
• Mahmood Hasan Gangohi
• Mufti Taqi Usmani
• Ibn al-Nafis
• Ibrahim ibn Faïd
• Muzammil H. Siddiqi
• Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz
• Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen
• Sidi Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi
• Taha Jabir Alalwani
• Mufti Ghulam Rasool Jamaati
• Taqiuddin al-Nabhani
• Ahmed Raza Khan
• Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
• Mahmood Ahmed Ghazi
• Khaled Abou El Fadl

Shia jurists

• Jafar al-Sadiq
• Muhammad al-Baqir
• Abu Basir al-Moradi
• Burayd ibn Mu'awiya al-'Ijli
• Muhammad bin Muslim
• Abu Basir al-Asadi
• Safwan ibn Yahya
• Zayd ibn Ali
• Ibn Shahr Ashub

• Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr
• Ali Khamenei
• Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
• Ruhollah Khomeini

See also

• Fiqh
• Ulama

References

• Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (2002). The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-09680-5.