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Also Known As ʿImād al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathīr
Born c.1300 • Bostra • Syria
Died February 1373 • Damascus • Syria
Subjects Of Study Hadith • Islam
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim theologian
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian theologian
Fakhr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzī
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
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Egyptian scholar and jurist
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Ibn ʿAqīl
Muslim theologian
Shāh Walī Allāh
Indian Muslim theologian
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Muslim theologian
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
mausoleum of al-Bukhārī
al-Bukhārī
Muslim scholar