The 100 Greatest Muslims (October 5, 2022)

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 The 100 Greatest Muslims

October 5, 2022

1.    The Prophet Muhammad

2.     Umar ibn al-Khattab

3.     Ali ibn Abi Talib

4.     Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

5.     Uthman ibn Affan

6.     Aisha bint Abu Bakr

7.     Khadija bint Khuwaylid

8.     Khalid ibn al-Walid

9.     Husain ibn Ali

10.    Abu Hurayra

11.     Fatimah bint Muhammad

12.     Bilal ibn Rabah

13.      Al-Bukhari

14.      Abu Hanifah

15.      Abu'l-Hasan al-Ash'ari

16.     Saladin

17.     Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

18.    Abu Abdullah ibn al-Shafi'i 

19.     Al-Khwarazmi

20.    Ahmad ibn Hanbal

21.    Ibn Khaldun

22.    Malik ibn Anas

23.     Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

24.    Abdul Qadir Gilani

25.     Ibn Sina

26.     Ibn Taymiyyah 

27.    Nizam al-Mulk

28.    Al-Kindi

29.    Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan

30.     Jalal al-Din Rumi

31.    Harun al-Rashid

32.     Abd ar-Rahman I

33.    Tariq ibn Ziyad

34.    Mehmed II

35.    Al-Biruni

36.    Suleyman the Magnificent

37.    Ja'far al-Sadiq

38.    Abd ar-Rahman II

39.    Ziryab

40.    Ibn Ishaq

41.    Al-Ma'mun

42.    Ibn Rushd

43.    Timur

44.    Akbar

45.    Al-Farabi

46.    Al-Tabari

47.    Ibn Battuta

48.    Jabir ibn Hayyan

49.    Mimar Sinan

50.    Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya' al-Razi

51.     Hasan al-Basri

52.    Ibn al-Haytham

53.    Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

54.    Mahmud of Ghazna

55.    Muhammad ibn al-Qasim

56.    Musa ibn Nusayr

57.    Shah Jahan

58.    Al-Mas'udi

59.    Al-Zahrawi

60.    Ibn Arabi

61.    'Omar al-Khayyam

62.    Jamal al-Din al-Afghani

63.    Ibn Abd-al Wahhab

64.    Rabi'a al-Adawiyyah

65.    'Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

66.    Al-Hallaj

67.    Shahrastani

68.    Khwaja Baha' al-Din Naqshband

69.    Ibn Hazm

70.    Al-Tusi

71.    Shah Rukh - Named for a Chess Move, The Fourth Son of Timur Who Became the 15th Century Ruler of the Timurid Empire

72.   Shah Jahan - "The King of the World" Who, in the 17th Century, Became the Fifth Mughal Emperor and Who Constructed the Taj Mahal, One of the Architectural Wonders of the World

and

Mumtaz Mahal - The "Exalted One of the Palace" and the Inspiration for Shah Jahan's 17th Century Taj Mahal, One of the Architectural Wonders of the World

73.    Fakhr al-Din al-Razi - "The Sultan of the Theologians", The 13th Century Author of The Great Commentary on the Qur'an and Arguably the First Multiverse Trailblazer

74.    Ferdowsi - The 11th Century Persian Poet Who Wrote The Shahnameh (The "Book of Kings"), a 60,000 Couplet Masterpiece Written Over 35 Years 

75.    Zheng He - The Great 15th Century Chinese Mariner and Explorer Who Led Seven Voyages to the Southern Oceans Including Voyages to Arabia and Africa

76.    Nur Jahan - The "Light of the World": The Wife of Mughal Emperor Jahangir Who Became The De Facto Ruler of 17th Century Mughal India

77.    Mu'in al-Din Chishti - The "Comfort to the Poor", the 13th Century Islamic Saint From Afghanistan Who Spread Islam in India

78.    Nur al-Din Zangi -  The "Light of the Faith" During the 12th Century's Second Crusade, Years Before Saladin

79.    Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi - The 17th Century Reviver of Islam in India

80.    Ibn Bajja

81.    Aurangzeb

82.    Ibn Tufayl

83.    Malik Ibrahim 

84.    Mansa Musa

85.    Al-Nawawi

86.    Muhammad Baqir Majlisi

87.    Hafiz Shirazi

88.    Shadhili

89.    Shah Wali Allah

90.    Shamil

91.    Ibn Jubayr

92.    Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi

93.    Shaykh Sa'di

94.    Sayyid Ahmad Khan

95.    The Mahdi of Sudan

96.    Al-Muranabbi

97.    Uthman Dan Fodio

98.    Mulla Sadra

99.    Ali al-Rida 

100.   Fatima bint Musa 

Others worthy of consideration for The 100 Greatest Muslims:

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Ahdaf Soueif, Ahmed Zewail, 'Ali Bhutto, 'Ali Shariati, Amini Wadud, Anwar al-Sadat, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Aziz Sancar, Benazir Bhutto, Caucher Birkar, Ebrahim Moosa; Elif Shafak, Fatima Mernissi, Fethullah Gulen, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Gowhar Shad, Hasan al-Banna, Hisham Matar, Ibn Saud, Ishaq Shahryar, Mahmud Shaltut, Malala Yousafzai,  Malcolm X, Malik Ambar, Maryam Mirzakhani, Mohamed El Baradei, Mohammad Abdus Salam, Mohammed Arkoun, Mohsin Hamid, Muammar Ghadafi, Muhammad Abduh, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Ilyas, Muhammad Yunus, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Nadifa Mohamed, Naguib Mahfouz, Nurcholish Madjid, Orhan Pamuk, Osama Bin Laden, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sa'id Nursi, Salman Rushdie, Sayyid Qutb, Shirin Ebadi, Tariq Ramadan, Tawakel Karman, Yasser Arafat 

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