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Tomb of Imam-e-Azam Abu Hanifa رحمة الله عليه

The Greatest and the first Muslim jurist and theologian whose systematization of Islamic legal doctrine was acknowledged as one of the four canonical schools of Islamic law (madhhabs)

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 Imam Malik رحمة الله عليه

Founder of the Imam Malik رحمة الله عليهi Islamic School of Law, he was a faqih who played an important role in formulating early Islamic legal doctrines

Tomb of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal رحمة الله عليه

A Muslim theologian, jurist, and martyr for his faith, He was the compiler of the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Musnad) and formulator of the Hanbali Islamic School of Law

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 Ghazali رحمة الله عليه

One of the most prominent and influential philosophers, theologians, jurists, and mystics of Sunni Islam

Tomb of Imam Tirmidhi رحمة الله عليه

Author of Jami' al-Tirmidhi, one of the six canonical collections of spoken traditions (Hadith) attributed to the Hz. Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Tomb of Imam Tabari رحمة الله عليه

Author of enormous compendiums of early Islamic history and Quranic exegesis, who made a distinct contribution to the consolidation of Sunni thought during the 9th century

Tomb of Hz. Ibn Sirin رحمة الله عليه

One of the pioneers of the science of the interpretation of dreams in Islam, combining his linguistic knowledge, wisdom and insight which enabled him to become a leader in this "art" form

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 Abu Ali Sina (Avicenna) رحمة الله عليه

The most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world

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 Hajar al-Asqalani r.a

One of the most influential thinkers of the 15th century and a prolific scholar, most notably of hadith (Prophetic traditions)

Tomb of Ibn al-Qasim

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

Tomb of Hz. Hüseyin Hilmi Işık رحمة الله عليه

Tomb of one of the greatest Turkish scholar on the 20th century

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...

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