Ibn Kemal

Ottoman historian, jurist and poet (1469–1534)

al-Mu'allim al-Awwal (The First Teacher)[1]

Ibn Kemal

Personal
Born|

Şemseddin Ahmed

1468

Edirne, Rumelia, Ottoman Empire

Died| 14 April 1534(1534-04-14) (aged 65–66)

Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

Religion| Islam
Era| 15th-century
Denomination| Sunni
Jurisprudence| Hanafi
Creed| Maturidi[2]
Main interest(s)| Aqidah, Tafsir, Tasawwuf, Hadith, Fiqh, Usul, Ma'aani, Mantiq, Falsafa, Ottoman history
Notable work(s)| Tevarih-i Al-i Osman ("The Chronicles of the House of Osman")
Occupation| Islamic scholar, Historian

Şemseddin Ahmed (1469–1534), better known by his pen name Ibn Kemal (also Ibn Kemal Pasha) or Kemalpaşazâde ("son of Kemal Pasha"), was an Ottoman historian,[4] Shaykh al-Islām, jurist[4] and poet.[5]

He was born into a distinguished military family in Edirne[4] and as a young man he served in the army and later studied at various madrasas and became the Kadı of Edirne in 1515.[6] He had Iranian roots on his mother's side.[7] He became a highly respected scholar and was commissioned by the Ottoman ruler Bayezid II to write an Ottoman history (Tevārīh-i Āl-i Osmān, "The Chronicles of the House of Osman"). During the reign of Selim the Resolute, in 1516, he was appointed as military judge of Anatolia and accompanied the Ottoman army to Egypt. During the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent he was appointed as the Shaykh al-Islām, i.e. supreme head of the ulama, a post which he held until his death.

Kemalpaşazâde was a crucially important figure in the codification of the Hanafi school of thought in its Ottoman iteration.[8]

## Works

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He "authored around 200 works in Turkish, Persian, and Arabic. His works include commentaries on the Qur'an, treatises on hadith, Islamic law, philosophy and theology (kalam), logic, Sufism, ethics, history, several books on Arabic and Persian grammar, literature, and a small diwan of poetry."[9]

His most famous history work is the Tevārīh-i Āl-i Osmān "The Chronicles of the House of Osman", a history of the Ottoman Empire which provides the most original and important source material now extant on the reigns during which he himself lived.[6]

Although best known as a historian, Kemalpaşazâde was also a great scholar and a talented poet. He wrote numerous scholarly commentaries on the Quran, treatises on jurisprudence and Muslim theology and philosophy, and during his stay in Egypt he translated the works of the Egyptian historian ibn Taghribirdi from Arabic. He also wrote in Arabic, a philological work entitled Daqāʿiq al-Haqāʿiq "The Subtleties of Verities". His best poetical works include the Nigaristan "The Picture Gallery", written in Persian and modeled upon the Būstān and the Golestān of Saadi Shirazi; a poem, "Yusuf ü Züleyha", in rhymed couplets, retelling the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife; and Divān "Collected Poems", consisting mainly of lyrics.[10]

In philosophy and theology, he was a Maturidi theologian-philosopher who followed some opinions of ibn Arabi and anticipated some theories of Mulla Sadra.[11] Kemalpaşazâde also wrote a famous history of the Hanafi school of fiqh entitled Risāla fī Ṭabaqāt al-Mujtahidīn "The Treatise regarding Biographies of Jurists".[12]

## Notes

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1. ^ Atâullah, Nev‘îzâde. Hadâiku'l-hakāik fî tekmileti'ş-Şekāik. Abdülkadir Özcan. p. 185.
2. ^ Ibn, Kemal (1304). Resail. İkdam Matbaası. pp. 231–233.
3. ^ Çelebi, Âşık. Tezkire. Millet Ktp., Ali Emîrî Efendi, Tarih, nr. 772. pp. vr.53a.
4. ^ a b c Kemalpashazade, Franz Babinger, E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Vol.4, ed. M. Th. Houtsma, (Brill, 1993), 851.
5. ^ The Reigns of Bayezid II and Selim I 1481–1520, V.J. Parry, A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730, ed. M.A. Cook, (Cambridge University Press, 1976), 78.
6. ^ a b History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Stanford J. Shaw, page 145, 1976
7. ^ Inan, Murat Umut (2019). "Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World". In Green, Nile (ed.). The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca. University of California Press. p. 83\. "A preeminent scholar and madrasa professor, Kemalpaşazade was born into a distinguished family with Iranian roots on his mother's side."
8. ^ Burak, Guy. The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316106341.
9. ^ İbrahim Kalın, "Ibn Kemal (873–940 / 1468–1534)" in Oliver Leaman (ed.), "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy", Bloomsbury Publishing (2015), p. 198
10. ^ Christine Woodhead, 'Kemalpaşazade', in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by Kate Fleet and others, 3rd Edition (Leiden: Brill, 2007–); doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_35404
11. ^ İbrahim Kalın, "Ibn Kemal (873–940 / 1468–1534)" in Oliver Leaman (ed.), "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy", Bloomsbury Publishing (2015), p. 199
12. ^ Burak, The Second Formation of Islamic Law, 72.

## Bibliography

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* Online
* Encyclopædia Britannica

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* t
* e

Ottoman historians

15th century|

* Oruç Bey
* Aşıkpaşazade
* Enveri
* Ibn Kemal
* Neshri
* Şükrullah
* Tursun Beg

16th century|

* Mustafa Âlî
* Lûtfi Pasha
* Matrakçı Nasuh
* Sadeddin Effendi
* Mustafa Selaniki
* Taşköprüzade

17th century|

* Ibrahim Petchevi
* Solakzade Mehmed Hemdemi
* Kâtip Çelebi
* Munejjim Bashi
* Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha
* Osman Aga of Temesvar
* Mustafa Naima
* Al-Hasan al-Burini

18th century|

* Ahmed Resmî Efendi

19th century|

* Ali Amiri
* Ahmed Cevdet Pasha

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* e

Maturidi school of Sunni theology

Maturidi scholars|

| 3rd AH/9th AD|

* Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 333 AH)
* Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 342 AH)
* Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (d. 379 AH)
* Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (d. 396 AH)

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4th AH/10th AD|

* Abu Zayd al-Dabusi (d. 429 AH)
* Ali Hujwiri (d. 464 AH)
* Yūsuf Balasaguni (d. 469 AH)
* Fakhr al-Islam al-Bazdawi (d. 482 AH)
* Al-Sarakhsi (d. 483 AH)
* Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (d. 493 AH)

5th AH/11th AD|

* Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi (d. 508 AH)
* Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari (d. 534 AH)
* Yusuf Hamadani (d. 535 AH)
* Sheikh Ahmad-e Jami (d. 536 AH)
* Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (d. 537 AH)
* Ahmad Yasawi (d. 561 AH)
* Nur al-Din Zengi (d. 569 AH)
* Siraj al-Din al-Ushi (d. 575 AH)
* Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 580 AH)
* Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 581 AH)
* Al-Kasani (d. 587 AH)
* Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 593 AH)

6th AH/12th AD|

* Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi (d. beginning of the 6th century AH)
* Al-Mu'azzam 'Isa (d. 624 AH)
* Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (d. 632 AH)
* Mu'in al-Din Chishti (d. 633 AH)
* Saif ed-Din al-Boharsi (d. 659 AH)
* Baba Farid (d. 664 AH)
* Rumi (d. 671 AH)
* Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (d. after 690 AH)

7th AH/13th AD|

* Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 710 AH)
* Sultan Walad (d. 711 AH)
* Nizamuddin Auliya (d. 725 AH)
* Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 747 AH)
* Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 786 AH)
* Baha' al-Din Naqshband (d. 791 AH)
* Kadi Burhan al-Din (d. 800 AH)

8th AH/14th AD|

* Bande Nawaz (d. 825 AH)
* Shams al-Din al-Fanari (d. 834 AH)
* 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (d. 841 AH)
* Yaqub al-Charkhi (d. 851 AH)
* Ahmad ibn Arabshah (d. 861 AH)
* Badr al-Din al-'Ayni (d. 855 AH)
* Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (d. 861 AH)
* Khidr Bey (d. 863 AH)
* Ali al-Bistami (d. 874 AH)
* 'Ali al-Qushji (d. 879 AH)
* Mehmed II (d. 886 AH)
* Khwaja Ahrar (d. 895 AH)

9th AH/15th AD|

* Ali-Shir Nava'i (d. 906 AH)
* Husayn Kashifi (d. 910 AH)
* Ibn Kemal (d. 940 AH)
* Abdul Quddus Gangohi (d. 943 AH)
* Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 955 AH)
* Taşköprüzade (d. 968 AH)
* Muhammad Birgivi (d. 980 AH)
* Ebussuud Efendi (d. 982 AH)

10th AH/16th AD|

* Khwaja Baqi Billah (d. 1011 AH)
* 'Ali al-Qari (d. 1014 AH)
* Hasan Kafi al-Aqhisari (d. 1025 AH)
* Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034 AH)
* Mahmud Hudayi (d. 1037 AH)
* 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (d. 1052 AH)
* Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (d. 1061 AH)
* 'Abd al-Hakim al-Siyalkoti (d. 1067 AH)
* Wang Daiyu (d. around 1068 AH)
* Kâtip Çelebi (d. 1068 AH)
* Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji (d. 1069 AH)
* Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (d. 1081 AH)

11th AH/17th AD|

* Aurangzeb (d. 1118 AH)
* Ma Zhu (d. around 1123 AH)
* Ismail Haqqi Bursevi (d. 1127 AH)
* Shah Abdur Rahim (d. 1131 AH)
* Liu Zhi of Nanjing (d. 1158 AH, or 1178 AH)
* Nizamuddin Sihalivi (d. 1161 AH)
* Makhdoom Muhammad Hashim Thattvi (d. 1174 AH)
* Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d. 1176 AH)
* 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (d. 1176 AH)
* İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi (d. 1193 AH)
* Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (d. 1195 AH)

12th AH/18th AD|

* Gelenbevi Ismail Efendi (d. 1204 AH)
* Murtada al-Zabidi (d. 1205 AH)
* Sanaullah Panipati (d. 1225 AH)
* Ghabdennasir Qursawi (d. 1226 AH)
* Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (d. 1239 AH)
* Shah Abdul Aziz (d. 1239 AH)
* Shah Ismail Dehlvi (d. 1246 AH)
* Syed Ahmad Barelvi (d. 1246 AH)
* Ibn 'Abidin (d. 1252 AH)
* Muhammad 'Abid al-Sindi (d. 1257 AH)
* Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (d. 1267 AH)
* Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (d. 1278 AH)
* Yusuf Ma Dexin (d. 1291 AH)
* Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (d. 1297 AH)
* Naqi Ali Khan (d. 1297 AH)
* 'Abd al-Ghani al-Maydani (d. 1298 AH)

13th AH/19th AD|

* 'Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (d. 1304 AH)
* Shihab al-Din al-Marjani (d. 1306 AH)
* Rahmatullah al-Kairanawi (d. 1308 AH)
* Giritli Sırrı Pasha (d. 1312 AH)
* Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (d. 1312 AH)
* Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (d. 1317 AH)
* Abai Qunanbaiuly (d. 1321 AH)
* Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (d. 1323 AH)
* Ahmad Hasan Amrohi (d. 1330 AH)
* Muhammad Anwaarullah Farooqui (d. 1335 AH)
* Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (d. 1338 AH)
* Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (d. 1340 AH)
* Shakarim Qudayberdiuli (d. 1344 AH)
* Muhammad Ali Mungeri (d. 1346 AH)
* Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (d. 1346 AH)
* Anwar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1352 AH)
* Muhammad Bakhit al-Muti'i (d. 1354 AH)
* Fatma Aliye Topuz (d. 1354 AH)
* Meher Ali Shah (d. 1356 AH)
* Muhammed Hamdi Yazır (d. 1361 AH)
* Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1361 AH)
* Ubaidullah Sindhi (d. 1364 AH)
* Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (d. 1368 AH)
* Musa Bigiev (d. 1368 AH)
* Al-Kawthari (d. 1371 AH)
* Kifayatullah Dehlawi (d. 1371 AH)
* Mustafa Sabri (d. 1373 AH)
* Husayn Ahmad al-Madani (d. 1377 AH)
* Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan (d. 1378 AH)
* Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen (d. 1391 AH)
* Muhammad Abu Zahra (d. 1394 AH)
* Muhammad Shafi' Deobandi (d. 1395 AH)
* Abul Wafa Al Afghani (d. 1395 AH)
* Abdul Majid Daryabadi (d. 1397 AH)

14th AH/20th AD|

* Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi (d. 1402 AH)
* Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi (d. 1403 AH)
* Abdul Haq Akorwi (d. 1409 AH)
* Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi (d. 1412 AH)
* Muhammad Ayyub Ali (d. 1415 AH)
* Anzar Shah Kashmiri (d. 1428 AH)
* Wahbah al-Zuhayli (d. 1436 AH)
* Muhammad Salim Qasmi (d. 1439 AH)
* Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (d. 1441 AH)
* Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (d. 1442 AH)
* Nur Hossain Kasemi (d. 1442 AH)
* Usmankhan Alimov (d. 1443 AH)
* Muhammad Rafi' Usmani
* Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
* Muhammad Taqi Usmani
* Husein Kavazović
* Salah Mezhiev

Theology books|

* Al-Fiqh al-Akbar
* Kitab al-Tawhid
* Tafsir al-Maturidi
* Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya
* Al-Sawad al-A'zam
* Tabsirat al-Adilla
* 'Aqa'id al-Nasafi
* Talkhis al-Adilla
* Masnavi
* Fihi Ma Fihi
* Han Kitab
* Qingzhen Zhinan
* Kutadgu Bilig
* Tafsir al-Mazhari
* Izhar ul-Haqq
* Al-Muhannad ala al-Mufannad
* Hak Dīni Kur'an Dili

See also|

* 2016 international conference on Sunni Islam in Grozny
* 2020 International Maturidi Conference
* Ahl al-Ra'y
* Kalam
* Tawhid
* Gedimu
* Firangi Mahal
* Deobandi
* Barelvi

Maturidi-related templates

* Hanafi
* Ash'ari
* Sufi
* Islamic theology

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* e

Muslim scholars of the Hanafi school

* by century (AH
* CE)

2nd/8th|

* Abu Hanifa (founder of the school; 699–767)
* Abu Yusuf (738–798)
* Ibn al-Mubarak (726–797)
* Muhammad al-Shaybani (749–805)
* Yahya ibn Ma'in (774–807)
* Waki' ibn al-Jarrah (d. 812)

3rd/9th|

* Isa ibn Aban (d. 836)
* Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad (777–854)
* Yahya ibn Aktham (d. 857)
* Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d. 869)
* Al-Ḫaṣṣāf (d. 874)
* Abu Bakr al-Samarqandi (d. 882)

4th/10th|

* Al-Tahawi (843–933)
* Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (853–944)
* Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (b. 874)
* Al-Jassas (917–981)
* Abu al-Layth al-Samarqandi (944–983)

5th/11th|

* Abu al-Husayn al-Basri (d. 1044)
* Karima al-Marwaziyya (969–1069)
* Ali Hujwiri (1009–1072)
* Al-Bazdawi (1010–1089)
* Al-Sarakhsi (d. 1090)
* Abu al-Yusr al-Bazdawi (1030–1100)
* Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi (d. 1115)
* Abu al-Thana' al-Lamishi

6th/12th|

* Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari (d. 1139)
* Ibn al-Malāḥimī (d. 1141)
* Yusuf Hamadani (1062–1141)
* Abu Hafs Umar al-Nasafi (1067–1142)
* Al-Zamakhshari (1074–1143)
* Siraj al-Din al-Ushi (d. 1180)
* Nur al-Din al-Sabuni (d. 1184)
* Fatima al-Samarqandi (d. 1185)
* Al-Kasani (d. 1191)
* Jamal al-Din al-Ghaznawi (d. 1197)
* Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (1135–1197)

7th/13th|

* Rumi (1207–1273)
* Jalaluddin Tabrizi (d. 1228)
* Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235)
* Mu'in al-Din Chishti (1143–1236)
* Baba Farid (1173–1266)
* Abu Tawwama (d. 1300)
* Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi (d. 1310)

8th/14th|

* Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325)
* Uthman bin Ali Zayla'i (d. 1342)
* Shah Jalal Mujarrad (1271–1346)
* Uthman Siraj ad-Din (1258–1357)
* Ala al-Haq (1301–1384)
* Jahaniyan Jahangasht (1308–1384)
* Akmal al-Din al-Babarti (d. 1384)
* Al-Taftazani (1322–1390)
* Ibn Abi al-Izz (1331–1390)
* Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi (1350–1410)
* Al-Sharif al-Jurjani (1339–1414)

9th/15th|

* Nur Qutb Alam (d. 1416)
* Shams al-Din al-Fanari (1350–1431)
* 'Ala' al-Din al-Bukhari (1377–1438)
* Husam ad-Din Manikpuri (d. 1449)
* Badr al-Din al-Ayni (1361–1451)
* Al-Kamal ibn al-Humam (1388–1457)
* Ali Qushji (1403–1474)
* Khidr Bey (b. 1407)

10th/16th|

* Zenbilli Ali Cemali Efendi (1445–1526)
* Ibn Kemal (1468–1536)
* Abdul Quddus Gangohi (1456–1537)
* Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (1460–1549)
* Fahreddin-i Acemi (d. 1460)
* Muhammad Ghawth (1500–1562)
* Nagore Shahul Hamid (1504–1570)
* Mosleh al-Din Lari (1510–1572)
* Muhammad Birgivi (1522–1573)
* Ebussuud Efendi (1490–1574)
* Hamza Makhdoom (1494–1576)
* Wajihuddin Alvi (1490–1580)
* Taşköprülüzade Ahmet (1495–1561)
* Yaqub Sarfi Kashmiri (1521–1595)
* Sadeddin Efendi (1536–1599)
* Mustafa Selaniki (d. 1600)
* Ali al-Qari (d. 1606)

11th/17th|

* Ahmad Sirhindi (1564–1624)
* Esad Efendi (1570–1625)
* Kadızade Mehmed (1582–1635)
* 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi (1551–1642)
* Mehmed Efendi (1595–1654)
* Kâtip Çelebi (1609–1657)
* Jana Begum
* Shihab al-Din al-Khafaji (1569–1659)
* Khayr al-Din al-Ramli (1585–1671)
* Syed Rafi Mohammad (d. 1679)
* Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689)
* Syed Inayatullah (d. 1713)

12th/18th|

* Shah Abdur Rahim (1644–1719)
* Zinat-un-Nissa Begum (1643–1721)
* Syed Hayatullah (d. 1722)
* Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi (1641–1731)
* Syed Mohammad Zaman (d. 1756)
* Hashim Thattvi (1692–1761)
* Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703–1762)
* Shah Nuri Bengali (d. 1785)
* Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699–1781)
* Murtada al-Zabidi (1732–1790)
* Sanaullah Panipati (1730–1810)
* Syed Mohammad Rafi (d. 1803)
* Majduddin (d. 1813)

13th/19th|

* Çerkes Halil Efendi (d. 1821)
* Ghulam Ali Dehlavi (1743–1824)
* Shah Abdul Aziz (1746–1824)
* Fatima al-Fudayliya (d. 1831)
* Syed Ahmad Barelvi (1786–1831)
* Syed Mir Nisar Ali (1782–1831)
* Ibn Abidin (1784–1836)
* Haji Shariatullah (1781–1840)
* Shah Muhammad Ishaq (1783–1846)
* Mamluk Ali Nanautawi (1789–1851)
* Mahmud al-Alusi (1802–1854)
* Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi (1796–1861)
* Dudu Miyan (1819–1862)
* Karamat Ali Jaunpuri (1800–1873)
* Al-Maydani (1807–1861)
* Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari (1801–1868)
* Mehr Ali Qadiri (1808–1868)
* Yusuf Ma Dexin (1794–1874)
* Naqi Ali Khan (1830–1880)
* Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi (1832–1880)
* Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri (1810–1880)
* Yaqub Nanautawi (1833–1884)
* Mazhar Nanautawi (1821–1885)
* Ubaidullah Suhrawardy (1832–1885)
* Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi (1848–1886)
* Siddiq Bharchundi (1819–1890)
* Rafiuddin Deobandi (1836–1890)
* Rahmatullah Kairanawi (1818–1891)
* Mustafa Ruhi Efendi (1800–1891)
* Mahmoodullah Hussaini (d. 1894)
* Syed Ahmad Dehlavi (died 1894)
* Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (1817–1899)
* Hafiz Ahmad Jaunpuri (1834–1899)
* Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (1826–1905)
* Abdul Wahid Bengali (1850–1905)
* Syed Ahmadullah Maizbhandari (1826–1906)
* Fazlur Rahman Usmani (1831–1907)
* Abd Allah ibn Abbas ibn Siddiq (1854–1907)
* Muhammad Naimuddin (1832–1907)
* Hassan Raza Khan (1859–1908)
* Sayyid Muhammad Abid (1834–1912)
* Ahmad Hasan Amrohi (1850–1912)
* Kareemullah Shah (1838–1913)
* Shibli Nomani (1857–1914)
* Najib Ali Choudhury (fl. 1870s)

14th/20th|

| Barelvi|

* Asrarullah Hussaini (1856–1920)
* Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856–1921)
* Muhammad Amjad (d. 1927)
* Ghulam Muhammad Dinpuri (1835–1936)
* Qasim Sadiq (1845–1942)
* Hamid Raza Khan (1875–1943)
* Amjad Ali Aazmi (1882–1948)
* Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi (1887–1948)
* Abdullah Barelvi (1841–1949)
* Jamaat Ali Shah (1834–1951)
* Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri (1868–1951)
* Kifayatullah Dehlawi (1875–1952)
* Shihabuddeen Ahmed Koya Shaliyathi (1885–1954)
* Abdul Aleem Siddiqi (1892–1954)
* Amin ul-Hasanat (1922–1960)
* Sardar Ahmad Chishti (1903–1962)
* Ibrahim Raza Khan (1907–1965)
* Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni (1898–1970)
* Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi (1909–1970)
* ​Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974)
* Ghulam Mohiuddin Ghaznavi (1902–1975)
* Mustafa Raza Khan (1892–1981)
* Ziauddin Madni (1877–1981)
* Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi (1906–1981)
* Muslehuddin Siddiqui (1918–1983)
* Faiz-ul Hassan Shah (1911–1984)
* Shafee Okarvi (1930–1984)
* Ahmad Saeed Kazmi (1913–1986)
* Shujaat Ali Qadri (1941–1993)
* Waqaruddin Qadri (1915–1993)
* Abdul Wahab Siddiqi (1942–1994)
* Karam Shah Azhari (1918–1998)
* Sadruddin Islahi (1917–1998)
* Ghulam Ali Okarvi (1919–2000)
* Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (1889–2001)
* Arshadul Qadri (1925–2002)
* Ibrahim Siddiqui (1930–2002)
* Shah Ahmad Noorani (1926–2003)
* Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi (1948–2009)

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Deobandi|

* Imamuddin Punjabi (died 1916)
* Abdul Hamid Madarshahi (1869–1920)
* Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (1851–1920)
* Sufi Azizur Rahman (1862–1922)
* Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri (1852–1927)
* Muhammad Ali Mungeri (1846–1927)
* Azizur Rahman Usmani (1859–1928)
* Muhammad Ahmad Nanautawi (1862–1930)
* Ibrahim Ali Tashna (1872–1931)
* Anwar Shah Kashmiri (1875–1933)
* Sayyid Mumtaz Ali (1860–1935)
* Majid Ali Jaunpuri (d. 1935)
* Abul Muhasin Sajjad (1880–1940)
* Shukrullah Mubarakpuri (1895–1942)
* Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863–1943)
* Ibrahim Ujani (1863–1943)
* Habibullah Qurayshi (1865–1943)
* Ubaidullah Sindhi (1872–1944)
* Ilyas Kandhlawi (1885–1944)
* Asghar Hussain Deobandi (1877–1945)
* Sahool Bhagalpuri (d. 1948)
* Sulaiman Nadvi (1884–1953)
* Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (1887–1949)
* Izaz Ali Amrohi (1882–1955)
* Manazir Ahsan Gilani (1892–1956)
* Hussain Ahmed Madani (1879–1957)
* Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi (1888–1959)
* Badre Alam Merathi (1898–1965)
* Azizul Haq (1903–1961)
* Maqsudullah (1883–1961)
* Abdul Qadir Raipuri (1878–1962)
* Ahmed Ali Lahori (1887–1962)
* Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi (1900–1962)
* Yusuf Kandhlawi (1917–1965)
* Shah Ahmad Hasan (1882–1967)
* Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (1896–1969)
* Khair Muhammad Jalandhari (1895–1970)
* Muhammad Ali Jalandhari (1895–1971)
* Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri (1907–1971)
* Abdur Rahman Kashgari (1912–1971)
* Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889–1972)
* Deen Muhammad Khan (1900–1974)
* Zafar Ahmad Usmani (1892–1974)
* Muhammad Miyan Deobandi (1903–1975)
* Ibrahim Balyawi (1887–1976)
* Muhammad Faizullah (1892–1976)
* Abdul Wahhab Pirji (1895–1976)
* Athar Ali Bengali (1891–1976)
* Shafi Usmani (1897–1976)
* Yusuf Banuri (1908–1977)
* Syed Muhammad Ishaq (1915–1977)
* Ahmed Ali Badarpuri (1915–2000)
* Mehboob Rizwi (1911–1979)
* Sahvi Shah (1923–1979)
* Mufti Mehmood (1919–1980)
* Shah Abd al-Wahhab (1894–1982)
* Zakariyya Kandhlawi (1898–1982)
* Tayyib Qasmi (1897–1983)
* Shamsul Haq Afghani (1901–1983)
* Ibrahim Chatuli (1894–1984)
* Atiqur Rahman Usmani (1901–1984)
* Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908–1985)
* Azhar Shah Qaiser (1920–1985)
* Harun Babunagari (1902–1986)
* Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (1900–1986)
* Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi (1910–1987)
* Muhammadullah Hafezzi (1895–1987)
* Abdul Aziz Malazada (1917–1987)
* Shamsul Huda Panchbagi (1897–1988)
* Abdul Haq Akorwi (1912–1988)
* Abdul Jalil Badarpuri (1925–1989)
* Abdul Matin Fulbari (1915–1990)
* Minnatullah Rahmani (1913–1991)
* Taqi Amini (1926–1991)
* Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami (1900–1992)
* Muhammad Yunus (1906–1992)
* Masihullah Khan (1912–1992)
* Abul Hasan Jashori (1918–1993)
* Shams Naved Usmani (1931–1993)
* Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi (1918–1995)
* Mahmood Hasan Gangohi (1907–1996)
* Athar Mubarakpuri (1916–1996)
* Shamsuddin Qasemi (1935–1996)
* Manzoor Nomani (1905–1997)
* Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri (1914–1997)
* Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi (1935–1998)
* Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1913–1999)
* Ismail Katki (1914–2005)
* Sharif Hasan Deobandi (1920–1977)
* Nur Uddin Gohorpuri (1924–2005)
* Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi (1928–2005)
* Kafilur Rahman Nishat Usmani (1942–2006)
* Syed Fazlul Karim (1935–2006)
* Abdullah Abbas Nadwi (1925–2006)
* Sirajussajidin Katki (1939–2006)
* Abrarul Haq Haqqi (1920–2006)
* Ubaidul Haq (1928–2007)
* Anzar Shah Kashmiri (1927–2008)
* Obaidul Haque Wazirpuri (1934–2008)

* Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi (1848–1917)
* Abdul Awwal Jaunpuri (1867–1921)
* Azimuddin Hanafi (1838–1922)
* Medeni Mehmet Nuri Efendi (1859–1927)
* Hamiduddin Farahi (1863–1930)
* Machiliwale Shah (d. 1932)
* Abdur Rab Jaunpuri (1875–1935)
* Meher Ali Shah (1859–1937)
* Ghulamur Rahman Maizbhandari (1865–1937)
* Muhammad Ishaq (1883–1938)
* Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique (1845–1939)
* Abd Allah Siraj (1876–1949)
* Khwaja Yunus Ali (1886–1951)
* Nesaruddin Ahmad (1873–1952)
* Al-Kawthari (1879–1952)
* Mustafa Sabri (1869–1954)
* Ghousi Shah (1893–1954)
* Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (1898–1959)
* Abdul Batin Jaunpuri (1900–1973)
* Momtazuddin Ahmad (1889–1974)
* Muhammad Abu Zahra (1898–1974)
* Amimul Ehsan Barkati (1911–1974)
* Ghulam Mohiyuddin Gilani (1891–1974)
* Abul Wafa Al Afghani (1893–1975)
* Abdul Majid Daryabadi (1892–1977)
* Abul A'la Maududi (1903–1979)
* Abdur Rahim Firozpuri (1918–1987)
* Muntakhib al-Haqq (fl. 1980s)
* Abu Zafar Mohammad Saleh (1915–1990)
* Ahmed Muhyuddin Nuri Shah Jilani (1915–1990)
* Sayed Moazzem Hossain (1901–1991)
* Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi (1909–1992)
* Ayub Ali (1919–1995)
* Mukhtar Ashraf (1916–1996)
* Abdul Haque Faridi (1903–1996)
* Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi (1917–1997)
* Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda (1917–1997)
* Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997)
* Ghulam Moinuddin Gilani (1920–1997)
* Naeem Siddiqui (1916–2002)
* Abdul Latif Fultali (1913–2008)
* Muhammad Abdullah (1932–2008)
* Naseeruddin Naseer Gilani (1949–2009)

15th/21st|

* Israr Ahmed (1932–2010)
* Marghubur Rahman (1914–2010)
* Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1945–2010)
* Naseer Ahmad Khan Bulandshahri (1918–2010)
* Zafeeruddin Miftahi (1926–2011)
* Azizul Haque (1919–2012)
* Abdus Sattar Akon (1929–2012)
* Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri (1926–2012)
* Fazlul Haque Amini (1945–2012)
* Wahbi Sulayman Ghawji (1923–2013)
* Muhammad Fazal Karim (1954–2013)
* Qazi Mu'tasim Billah (1933–2013)
* Zubairul Hasan Kandhlawi (1950–2014)
* Nurul Islam Farooqi (1959–2014)
* Ahmad Naruyi (1963–2014)
* Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji (d. 2015)
* Abdur Rahman Chatgami (1920–2015)
* Abdul Majeed Ludhianvi (1935–2015)
* Abdullah Quraishi Al-Azhari (1935–2015)
* Sibtain Raza Khan (1927–2015)
* Muhiuddin Khan (1935–2016)
* Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi (1937–2016)
* Shah Turab-ul-Haq (1944–2016)
* Saleemullah Khan (1921–2017)
* Yunus Jaunpuri (1937–2017)
* Alauddin Siddiqui (1938–2017)
* Muhammad Abdul Wahhab (1923–2018)
* Salim Qasmi (1926–2018)
* Akhtar Raza Khan (1943–2018)
* Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi (1922–2019)
* Yusuf Motala (1946–2019)
* Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri (1965–2019)
* Khalid Mahmud (1925–2020)
* Tafazzul Haque Habiganji (1938–2020)
* Muhammad Abdus Sobhan (1936–2020)
* Abdul Momin Imambari (1930–2020)
* Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri (1940–2020)
* Salman Mazahiri (1946–2020)
* Shah Ahmad Shafi (1945–2020)
* Adil Khan (1957–2020)
* Khadim Hussain Rizvi (1966–2020)
* Nur Hossain Kasemi (1945–2020)
* Azizur Rahman Hazarvi (1948–2020)
* Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi (1926–2021)
* Muhammad Ali al-Sabuni (1930–2021)
* Muhammad Wakkas (1952–2021)
* Noor Alam Khalil Amini (1952–2021)
* Usman Mansoorpuri (1944–2021)
* Junaid Babunagari (1953–2021)
* Wali Rahmani (1943–2021)
* Ebrahim Desai (1963–2021)
* Abdus Salam Chatgami (1943–2021)
* Abdur Razzaq Iskander (1935–2021)
* Nurul Islam Jihadi (1916–2021)
* Faizul Waheed (1964–2021)
* Wahiduddin Khan (1925–2021)
* AbdulWahid Rigi (d. 2022)
* Abdul Halim Bukhari (1945–2022)
* Rafi Usmani (1936–2022)
* Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (1940–2023)
* Shahidul Islam (1960–2023)

Living|

* Saifur Rahman Nizami (b. 1916)
* Ghulam Rasool Jamaati (b. 1923)
* Syed Waheed Ashraf (b. 1933)
* Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani (b. 1935)
* Muhibbullah Babunagari (b. 1935)
* Ziaul Mustafa Razvi Qadri (b. 1935)
* Abdul Qadir Pakistani (b. 1935)
* Nematullah Azami (b. 1936)
* Yusuf Ziya Kavakçı (b. 1938)
* Madni Miyan (b. 1938)
* Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri (b. 1938)
* Sultan Zauq Nadvi (b. 1939)
* Zia Uddin (b. 1941)
* Arshad Madani (b. 1941)
* Taqi Usmani (b. 1943)
* Kamaluddin Zafree (b. 1945)
* Muneeb-ur-Rehman (b. 1945)
* Qamaruzzaman Azmi (b. 1946)
* Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi (b. 1946)
* Abul Qasim Nomani (b. 1947)
* Idrees Dahiri (b. 1947)
* Farid Uddin Chowdhury (b. 1947)
* Farid Uddin Masood (b. 1950)
* Mahmudul Hasan (b. 1950)
* Mukhtaruddin Shah (b. 1950)
* Ilyas Qadri (b. 1950)
* Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi (b. 1951)
* Tahir-ul-Qadri (b. 1951)
* Abul Kalam Qasmi Shamsi (b. 1951)
* Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi (b. 1953)
* Tariq Jamil (b. 1953)
* Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi (b. 1953)
* Abdul Khaliq Madrasi (b. 1953)
* Sufyan Qasmi (b. 1954)
* Nadeem al-Wajidi (b. 1954)
* Nurul Islam Walipuri (b. 1955)
* Sajjad Nomani (b. 1955)
* Ghousavi Shah (b. 1955)
* Ameen Mian Quadri (b. 1955)
* Pir Sabir Shah (b. 1955)
* Abu Taher Misbah (b. 1956)
* Kaukab Noorani Okarvi (b. 1957)
* Hamid Saeed Kazmi (b. 1957)
* Rahmatullah Mir Qasmi (b. 1957)
* AFM Khalid Hossain (b. 1959)
* Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari (b. 1959)
* Abdul Aziz Ghazi]] (b. 1960)
* Shakir Ali Noori (b. 1960)
* Ruhul Amin (b. 1962)
* Mizanur Rahman Sayed (b. 1963)
* Hanif Jalandhari (b. 1963)
* Sajidur Rahman (b. 1964)
* Ibrahim Mogra (b. 1965)
* Saad Kandhlawi (b. 1965)
* Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi (b. 1967)
* Abdullah Maroofi (b. 1967)
* Arshad Misbahi (b. 1968)
* Abu Reza Nadwi (b. 1968)
* Mahfuzul Haque (b. 1969)
* Ilyas Ghuman (b. 1969)
* Bilal Abdul Hai Hasani Nadwi (b. 1969)
* Qasim Rashid Ahmad (b. 1970)
* Asjad Raza Khan (b. 1970)
* Syed Rezaul Karim (b. 1971)
* Riyadh ul Haq (b. 1971)
* Arif Jameel Mubarakpuri (b. 1971)
* Obaidullah Hamzah (b. 1972)
* Raza Saqib Mustafai (b. 1972)
* Manzoor Mengal (b. 1973)
* Syed Faizul Karim (b. 1973)
* Mamunul Haque (b. 1973)
* Husamuddin Fultali (b. 1974)
* Abdur Rahman Mangera (b. 1974)
* Faraz Rabbani (b. 1974)
* Ishtiaque Ahmad Qasmi (b. 1974)
* Adnan Kakakhail (b. 1975)
* Muhammad al-Kawthari (b. 1976)
* Harun Izhar (b. 1977)
* Amer Jamil (b. 1977)
* Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi (b. 1982)
* Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury (b. 1985)
* Abbas Siddiqui (b. 1987)
* Kaif Raza Khan (b. 2001)
* Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi
* Tauqeer Raza Khan
* Subhan Raza Khan
* Abdul Malek Halim
* Izharul Islam Chowdhury
* Amjad M. Mohammed
* Anwar-ul-Haq Haqqani
* Mukarram Ahmad
* Abdul Khabeer Azad
* Muzaffar Qadri

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