List of Muslims
This page is a very incomplete list of prominent and famous (or infamous) people who are Muslims - followers of Islam. It includes many historical and modern personalities, and is very much under construction. Until it is more complete, it will be very far from neutral. Please help.
Traditional Theologians and Philosophers
- Prophet Muhammad
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Kindi
- Avicenna
- Averroes
- Ibn Taymiya
- Malik Ibn Anas
- Al-Bukhari
- Al-Tirmidhi
- Abu Muslim
- Razi
- Biruni
Modern Theologians and Philosophers
- Munawar Ahmad Anees
- Leila Ahmed
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Nasim Butt
- M. Umar Chapra
- Merryl Wyn Davies
- Hamid Enyat
- Ismail Al-Faruqi
- Sayyid Mawdudi
- Fatima Mernissi
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Syed Nawad Haider Naqwi
- Ziauddin Sardar
Historiographers and sociologists
- Al-Tabari
- Ibn Kathir
- Ibn Khallikan
- Al-Mas'udi
- Ibn Khaldoun
- Amin Maalouf
- Hammudah Abdalati
Historic personalities
- Prophet Muhammad
- Ali Ben Abu Talib - caliph (or the first Imám for Shíah Muslims)
- Abu Bakr - caliph
- Uthman ibn Affan - caliph
- Abd-ar-rahman I
- Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab
- Abbasid
- Umayyad
- Osmanli (rulers of the Ottoman Empire)
- Alija Ali Izetbegovic
- Anwar Sadat
- Pervez Musharraf
- Yasser Arafat
- Saddam Hussein
- King Hussein
- Mohammed Omar
- Mohammad Rabbani
- Qari Ahmadullah
- Mohammed Qalamuddin
- Benazir Bhutto
- Hamid Karzai
- Zalmay Khalilzad
- Ahmed H. Zewail
- Mahmoud Hessaby
- Rhazes (Razi) Biruni
- Alkhawarithmy
- Avicenna
- Moussa Ben Maimon (Maimonides)
Athletes
- Muhammad Ali
- Hakeem Olajuwon
- Laila Ali
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Ali Daei
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi
- Eddie Mustapha Muhammad
- Mustafa Hamsho
- Hasim Rahman
- Tupac Shakur
- Art Blakey
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)
- Ibn Battuta
- Osama bin Laden
- Ali Shariati
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Zacarias Moussaoui
- Ahmed Ressam
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
