List of Muslim reformers
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This page is a list of prominent Muslim reformers.
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'imAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. His specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights, and he is the director of the Religion and Human Rights Program at Emory. He is also a senior fellow of...
- Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah KhomeiniGrand Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian religious leader and politician, and leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran...
- Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-SadrMohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-SadrGrand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr , often referred to as Muhammad Sadiq as-Sadr which is his father's name, was a prominent Iraqi Twelver Shi'a cleric of the rank of Grand Ayatollah. He called for government reform and the release of detained Shi'a leaders...
- Hassan NasrallahHassan NasrallahHasan Nasrallah, became the third Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the previous leader, Abbas al-Musawi, in 1992. Hezbollah in its entirety is considered a terrorist organization by The United States, the Netherlands,...
- Muqtada al-SadrMuqtada al-SadrSayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is...
- Leila AhmedLeila AhmedLeila Ahmed is an Egyptian American writer on Islam and Islamic feminism as well as being the first women's studies professor at Harvard Divinity School.- Background :...
- Reza AslanReza AslanReza Aslan is an Iranian-American activist, a nationally acclaimed writer of religions. He is on the faculty at the University of California, Riverside, and is a contributing editor for The Daily Beast...
- Mehdi BazarganMehdi BazarganMehdi Bazargan was a prominent Iranian scholar, academic, long-time pro-democracy activist and head of Iran's interim government, making him Iran's first prime minister after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. He was the head of the first engineering department of Tehran University...
- Samira BellilSamira BellilSamira Bellil was a French feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of girls and women.Bellil became famous in France with the publication of her autobiographical book Dans l'enfer des tournantes in 2002...
- Assia DjebarAssia DjebarAssia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen , an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers...
- Hamid DalwaiHamid DalwaiHamid Dalwai was a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist and Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India.-Early life and education:He was born in a Marathi-speaking Muslim family in the Ratnagiri district of Konkan....
- Shirin EbadiShirin EbadiShirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially women's,...
- Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
- Ahmad GhabelAhmad GhabelAhmad Ghabel is a Hojjatoleslam Shia Muslim cleric, an Iranian theologian seminary lecturer, researcher, author and "prominent" member of Iran's largest reformist political party, the now outlawed Islamic Iran Participation Front...
- Asma JahangirAsma JahangirAsma Jilani Jahangir is a leading Pakistani lawyer, advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, President Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and human rights activist, who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the persecution of religious minorities, women, and exploitation...
- Ghada JamshirGhada JamshirGhada Jamshir is a Bahraini women's rights activist and an ardent campaigner for the reform of Sharia courts in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf states...
- Afrasiab KhattakAfrasiab KhattakAfrasiab Khattak or Afrasayab Khattak is a politician from Kohat, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He is currently a member of the Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Pakistan and the provincial president of the Awami National Party in North-West Frontier Province.Afrasiab Khattak...
- KadizadeliKadizadeliFollowers of Kadizade called themselves the Kadizadelis and established themselves as a distinguished ideological influence as provincial rebellions and political ones. Kadizade Mehmed and his followers, called "Kadizadeli," "Kadizade-ites," were determined rivals of the Sufi movement...
- Mohammad KhatamiMohammad KhatamiSayyid Mohammad Khātamī is an Iranian scholar, philosopher, Shiite theologian and Reformist politician. He served as the fifth President of Iran from August 2, 1997 to August 3, 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture in both the 1980s and 1990s...
- Mohsen KadivarMohsen KadivarMohsen Kadivar is an Iranian philosopher, University lecturer, cleric and activist. A political dissident, Kadivar has been a vocal critic of the doctrine of clerical rule, also known as Velayat-e Faqih , and a strong advocate of democratic and liberal reforms in Iran...
- Syed Ahmed KhanSyed Ahmed KhanJavad-ud Daula, Arif Jang, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, KCSI , commonly known as Sir Syed, was an Indian educator and politician, and an Islamic reformer and modernist...
- Fatema MernissiFatema MernissiFatema or Fatima Mernissi is a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.-Biography:Mernissi was born into a middle-class family in Fes in 1940. She received her primary education in a school established by the nationalist movement, and secondary level education in an all-girls school funded by the...
- Şihabetdin MärcaniSihabetdin MärcaniŞihabetdin Märcani was a Tatar theologian and historian.He studied in madrassas of Tashkichu , Bukhara and Samarqand. Beginning in 1850 he served as the imam of the First Cathedral Mosque. Later, in 1867, he became a muhtasib of Kazan. At the same time, in 1876-1884 he lectured on religion in the...
- Mostafa MalekianMostafa MalekianMostafa Malekian , is a prominent Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor. He is working on a project called Rationality and Spirituality...
- Asra Nomani
- Abdolkarim SoroushAbdolkarim SoroushAbdolkarim Soroush , born Hosein Haj Faraj Dabbagh , is an Iranian thinker, reformer, Rumi scholar and a former professor at the University of Tehran. He is arguably the most influential figure in religious intellectual movement in Iran. Professor Soroush is currently a visiting scholar at the...
- Ali ShariatiAli ShariatiAli Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the 'ideologue of the Iranian Revolution'.-Biography:Ali....
- Mohammad Mojtahed ShabestariMohammad Mojtahed ShabestariMohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is a highly influential Iranian philosopher, Shia Islamic theologian, writer and professor at Tehran University. He is noted for his idea that ad-din, is perfect, but not all-encompassing, i.e...
- Yousef Saanei
- Hassan al-TurabiHassan al-TurabiDr. Hassan 'Abd Allah al-Turabi , commonly called Hassan al-Turabi , is a religious and Islamist political leader in Sudan, who may have been instrumental in institutionalizing sharia in the northern part of the...
- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
- Mahmoud TaleghaniMahmoud TaleghaniAyatollah Mahmoud Taleghani was an Iranian theologian, humanist, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a cleric of Iran. Taleghani was a contemporary of the Iranian Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and a leader in his own right of Iran's Shi'a resistance movement...
- Amina WadudAmina WadudAmina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Qur'an exegesis . As an Islamic feminist, she has addressed mixed-sex congregations, giving a sermon in South Africa in 1994, and leading Friday prayers in the United States in 2005...
- Nasr Abu ZaydNasr Abu ZaydNasr Hamid Abu Zayd was an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Qur'anic hermeneutics.- Biography :...
- Warith Deen Mohammed
- Mona Eltahawy
- Omid SafiOmid SafiOmid Safi is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill where he specializes on Islamic mysticism , contemporary Islamic thought and medieval Islamic history. He has served on the board of the Pluralism project at Harvard University.- Progressive Islam :Professor...