- male, deceased (1111)
- Al-Ghazali contributed significantly to the development of a systematic view of Sufism and its integration and acceptance in mainstream Islam. He...
- male
- Nasr is an internationally acclaimed scholar .Seyyed Hossein Nasr, (1933-), a University Professor of the department of Islamic studies at George...
- male, deceased (1996)
- Idries Shah, also known as Idris Shah, né Sayyid Idris al-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس الهاشمي), was an author in the Naqshbandi sufist tradition...
- male (Nobleboro, Maine, United States)
- Coleman Barks (b. 1937) is an American poet and world-renowned translator of Rumi and other mystic poets of Persia.
- female, deceased (2003)
- Annemarie Schimmel, "Sitara-i-Imtiaz", "Hilal-i-Imtiaz" (April 7, 1922 - January 26, 2003) was a well known and very influential German Iranologist...
- male
- Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufism. He is the Co-Director of the Threshold Society, a non-profit educational foundation...
- male
- Yunus Emre was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised an immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present....
- male
- Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was a revered Sufi saint from the island of Sri Lanka who shared his knowledge and experience with people of...
- male, deceased (2004)
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, head of the Sufi Order International. Pir Vilayat’s mother, Ora Ra...
- male
- William C. Chittick is a renowned scholar of Sufi thought and literature and Islamic philosophy. Born in Connecticut, he completed a Ph.D. in...
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