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Also Known As Shāh Walī Ullāh
Born 1702 or 1703 • Delhi • India
Died 1762 • Delhi • India
Subjects Of Study Islam
Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Azad
Indian theologian
Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī
Indian mystic and theologian
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal
Muslim scholar
Ibn Taymiyyah
Muslim 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
A scholar and reformer
Muḥammad ʿAbduh
Egyptian scholar and jurist
Abū Ḥanīfah
Muslim jurist and theologian
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Muslim scholar
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī
Persian scholar
Ibn ʿAqīl
Muslim theologian
Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Muslim theologian
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
Tok Kenali
Malaysian theologian
Ibrāhīm al-Naẓẓām
Muslim theologian