Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis

male, 93 years old
Jewish, ottoman empire, University of Paris alumni, From London, English, Critic of Islam…Islamic politics and Islamic world studies, Islamichistory
Bernard Lewis (born May 31, 1916, London) is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He...
Khalid Yasin

Khalid Yasin

male
Christian, Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah, Shaykh Khalid Yasin, Islamic Training Program, Islamic Teaching Institute…Islamichistory
Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI), an organization dedicated to the work...
Michael Cook

Michael Cook

male
Princeton University, historian, Islamichistory, University of London, English, Historiographer of Islam…Hagarism The Making of the Islamic World
Michael Cook is an English historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a number of books with Patricia Crone, notably "Hagarism:...
Ali

Ali

male, deceased (661)
caliph, Turkish given names, Shia Islam, Ismailism, Qur'an, Islamichistory…Muslim history
‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib ("'"')‎ Approximately: March 17, 599 - February 28, 661 was an early Islamic leader, the first Shi'a Imam and the fourth and fin...

Imam Al-Haddad

male
sufi, Tarim, Yemen, The Lives of Man, Knowledge and Wisdom, The Book of Assistance, Imam Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad…Islamichistory
Imam Abd Allah ibn Alawi al-Haddad born in 1634 CE (1044 Hijri). He lived his entire life in the town of Tarim in Yemen’s Valley of Hadramawt and di...
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

female
Rosalynn Rushbrook, George Morris Kendrick, Muslim feminist, Islamic feminism, Islam in the United Kingdom, counselling…Islamichistory
Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, a British Muslim author, served as Head of Religious Studies at William Gee High School, Hull, England. Her original name...
Usman Dan Fodio

Usman Dan Fodio

male, deceased (1817)
sufi, Islamichistory, philosopher, hausa, african, fulani
Shaihu Usman dan Fodio (also referred to as Shaikh Usman Ibn Fodio, Shehu Uthman Dan Fuduye, or Shehu Usman dan Fodio, 1754 - 1817) was a writer...
Umar Tall

Umar Tall

male, deceased (1864)
French West Africa, Fula, Malian, monarch, guinea, politician…Islamichistory
El Hadj Umar Tall, also Umar Tal,Umar Taal "Umar Futi", al-Hajj Umar ibn Sa'id Tal, or el-Hadj Omar ibn Sa'id Tal, (ca. 1797 - 1864) was a...
Naseem Hijazi

Naseem Hijazi

male, deceased (1996)
pakistani, writer, Islamichistory, Urdu, british raj, Urdu-language writer
Sharīf Ḥusain, more commonly by his pseudonym Nasīm Ḥijāzī (Urdu: نسیم حجازی, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi, or Nasim Hijazi) (c. 1914-...
Muhammed Bello

Muhammed Bello

male
islamic, sokoto, Islamichistory, Fulani War, 'Abd al-Salam, his father's jihad
Muhammed Bello was the son and aide of Usman dan Fodio. He became the second Sultan of Sokoto following his father's 1815 retirement from the...