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Tomb of Imam Shafii رحمة الله عليه

Founder of Shafi'i Islamic of Law, he was Born in Gaza, Palestine in 150 AH, the same year as Hz. Imam Abu Hanifa passing away. Thus, the same year a leading scholar of fiqh passed away, a child was born who would go on...

Tomb of Imam Bukhari رحمة الله عليه

One of the most distinguished scholars of Hadith in Islamic history, His book Sahih al-Bukhari, in which the Prophet's ﷺ words, actions, or habits were collected, is one of the greatest sources of the prophetic...

Tomb of Imam Ibn al-Jawzi

A jurist, theologian, historian, preacher, and teacher who became an important figure in the Baghdad establishment and a leading spokesman of traditionalist Islam

Tomb of Ibn Battuta

One of the greatest medieval Muslim traveler and the author of one of the most famous travel books, the Rihlah (Travels), His great work describes his extensive travels covering some 75,000 miles (120,000 km) in trips...

Tomb of Nizam-ul-Mulk

Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuk Empire , he was the de facto ruler of the empire for 20 years after the assassination of Alp Arslan in 1072

Tomb of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

One of the most important philosophers and theologians of the post-classical period of Islam, that is, the period after Imam al-Ghazali

Tomb of Ibn al-Qasim

Tomb of One of the greatest Maliki scholar and a contemporary of Imam Malik رضي الله عنه

Tomb of Mimar Sinan

Most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, whose ideas, perfected in the construction of mosques and other buildings, served as the basic themes for virtually all later Turkish religious and civic architecture

Tomb of Ferdowsi

Persian poet & author of the Shah-nameh (“Book of Kings”), He is considered among the most important of the Persian poets writing under the Samanid Dynasty for his work which, today, remains among the most popular and...