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Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Abū Shahbah (1332–1403/1914–1983) was a distinguished Egyptian scholar of ḥadīth, Qurʾānic studies, and sīrah who taught at al-Azhar University and became one...
Muḥammad al-Ghazālī was a prominent twentieth-century Egyptian Muslim scholar, preacher, and reformist thinker whose writings contributed significantly to modern Islamic intellectu...
Muhammad Asad (1900–1992), born Leopold Weiss in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), was an influential Muslim intellectual, Qurʾān translator, journalist, diplomat, and author whose writ...
Muḥammad Bāqir Bihbūdī (1347–1436/1928–2015) was an Iranian Shīʿī scholar, muḥaddith, editor, and researcher whose work focused on ḥadīth criticism, Islamic history, and the source...
Dr. Muḥammad Ḥamīdullāh was a distinguished twentieth-century Muslim scholar, historian, jurist, and researcher whose contributions to sīrah studies, Islamic legal history, and man...
Muḥammad ibn Maslamah al-Anṣārī (RA) was one of the prominent Companions of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) and a distinguished member of the Anṣār of Madīnah. He belonged to the Aws triba...
Muḥammad Mohar ʿAlī (1929–2007) was a distinguished historian, Islamic scholar, and specialist in sīrah, Qurʾānic studies, and South Asian Muslim history. Born in Bengal, he pursue...
Muḥammad Rawwās Qalʿajī (1354–1431/1934–2010) was a prominent Syrian scholar, historian, bibliographer, and editor whose works made important contributions to the study of sīrah, ḥ...
Muḥammad Shafīʿ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn (1314–1396/1897–1976), widely known as Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ, was one of the foremost Islamic scholars of the Indian subcontinent in the twentiet...
Muʻāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān (d. 60 AH/680 CE) was a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ, one of the scribes who recorded the revelation, and a member of the clan of Banū Umayyah of Qu...
The term Munāfiqūn refers to the hypocrites who outwardly professed Islam while inwardly concealing disbelief and hostility toward the Muslim community. The phenomenon of hypocrisy...
Munīr Muḥammad al-Ghaḍbān (1938–2014) was a Syrian Islamic scholar, historian, educator, and prolific author whose writings on sīrah, Islamic history, and the Prophetic methodology...
Murtaḍā Muṭahharī (1920–1979) was a prominent Iranian scholar, philosopher, theologian, and intellectual whose writings exerted a profound influence on modern Islamic thought in th...
Mūsā (Moses) occupies a central place in Islamic tradition as one of the greatest prophets and messengers of God. He is the most frequently mentioned prophet in the Qur’ān, with hi...
Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah al-Asadī (d. 141/758) was an early Muslim scholar, transmitter of ḥadīth, and one of the earliest authorities on the maghāzī and sīrah of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. A...
Musaylimah ibn Ḥabīb al-Ḥanafī (d. 12/633), commonly known in Islamic sources as Musaylimah al-Kadhdhāb (“Musaylimah the Liar”), was a prominent figure of Banū Ḥanīfah in al-Yamāma...
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Nīsābūrī (204–261 AH/820–875 CE) was one of the greatest scholars of ḥadīth in Islamic history and the compiler of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, one of the most authoritati...
Muṣṭafā al-Sibāʿī (1334–1384/1915–1964) was a prominent Syrian scholar, thinker, educator, and author who played a major role in the revival of Islamic studies during the twentieth...
Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr (RA) was among the earliest converts to Islam and one of the most distinguished companions of Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. Born into a wealthy and influential Makkan famil...
Muʾākhāt, meaning “brotherhood” or “fraternization,” refers to the pact of brotherhood established by the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ between the muhājirūn (Emigrants) from Makkah and the a...
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