Shaykh al-Islām (Arabic: شيخ الإسلام, romanized: Šayḫ al-Islām; Persian: شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; Urdu: شِیخُ‌الاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; Ottoman...

In 1633, Murad IV gave order to execute the Shaykh al-Islām Ahīzāde Ḥüseyin Efendi. In 1656, Shaykh al-Islām Ḥocazāde Mesʿud Efendi was sentenced to death...

in virtually every Islamic science. For this reason, he was honoured one of the most prestigious and rarest titles: Shaykh al-Islām. He was described as...

إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī —was a Senegalese major leader (wolof)...

nisba al-Māturīdī and al-Ḥanafī. he is also known by the titles Shaykh al-Islam ('Shaykh of Islam'), Imam al-Huda ('Imam of Guidance'), and Imam Ahl al-Sunna...

Ashraf often referred to as Shaykh al-Islām, and Madni Miyan (born on 27 August 1938 CE; 1 Rajab 1357 AH) is an Indian Islamic scholar, theologian, spiritual...

Sheikh or Syeikh (/ʃeɪk, ʃiːk/ SHAYK, SHEEK, Arabic: شَيْخ, romanized: shaykh [ʃajx], commonly [ʃeːχ], plural: شُيُوخ, shuyūkh [ʃujuːx]) is an honorific...

الدين الرملي) also known as Shihab al-Din al-Ramli (d. 957 AH / 1550 CE) was an Egyptian Sunni Imam, Alim, Shaykh al-Islam, the scholar’s scholar of his time...

theologian, preacher, and orator. The Sunnis of his time called him the Shaykh al-Islām, and when they used this word they did not mean anyone else. He was...

Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari. He is known by the honorific epithets Hafiz al-Asr "Hafiz of the Time", Shaykh al-Islam "Shaykh of Islam", and...

Hujjat al-Islam (Arabic: حجة الإسلام, romanized: ḥujjat ul-Islām, Persian: حجةالاسلام or حجت‌الاسلام, romanized: hojjat-ol-Eslām) is an Islamic honorific...

Power): First revelation of the Quran to Muhammad. "Shaykh al-Islām". Oxford Reference. "The nights of 'Kandil'". İslâm Ansiklopedisi, s.v. KANDİL v t e...

to Ibn Taymiyya by the title Shaykh al-Islām. Alongside Ibn Taymiyya, his disciples Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Ibn Kathir, Al-Dhahabi, etc. constitute the...

according to Shaykh 'Isa al-Humyari. Al-Luma' al-Saghir (The Minor Book of Sparks), a preliminary to al-Luma' al-Kabir. Al-Ibana 'an Usul al-Diyana [ar]...

to come in the writings of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymīyyah.. al-Jamil, Tariq (2010). "8: Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Mutahhar al-Hilli". In Ahmed, Shahab; Rapoport...

(Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى صبرى افندی; 1869 – 1954) was the second last Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire. He is known for his opinions condemning the...

appointed qadi in Bursa. In 1480 he was appointed mufti of Istanbul or Shaykh al-Islām, a position he held till his death, serving under both Mehmed II and...

for philosophers, such as Allama Iqbal. Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi Habib al-Rahman al-A'zami Shaykh al-Islām Seghatoleslam List of ayatollahs List of maraji...

well known Islamic scholar. He studied classical Islamic scholarship with reform-minded scholars. He became a judge then Shaykh al-Islām in 1932. He...

was an Iranian Faqih and Shiite scholar from the 11th century AH, Shaykh al-Islām and the Imam of Friday Prayer of Isfahan. Mohaghegh Sabzevari was born...

equivalent of terms such as shaykh in the Arab world, and mawlānā in the Indian Subcontinent. In the Maldives, the title al-usthaadh (އަލްއުސްތާޛު) or...

served as the Qadi (judge) of Istanbul from 1533 to 1537, and the Shaykh al-Islām of the Ottoman Empire from 1545 to 1574. He was also called "El-İmâdî"...

by Shaykh al-Islām Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (d. 926 AH). At-Tawḍīḥ li Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ, by Imām Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Anṣārī Ibn al-Mulaqqin (d...

the prestigious position of Shaykh al-Islām of Pakistan in 1949, was the first to demand that Pakistan become an Islamic state. But Mawdūdī and his Jamāʿat-i...

connections with shaykh al-Islām in Istanbul. Bosnian Muslims opposed any separation from Istanbul. Austria-Hungary agreed that shaykh al-Islām could appoint...

of the Shiite science of usul al-fiqh, and was developed by Muhammad Baqir Behbahani (1706–1792) and Shaykh Murtada al-Ansari (died 1864). The only primary...

Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Qubrusi Al-Haqqani (born Mehmet Nâzım Âdil; 21 April 1922 – 7 May 2014) (Turkish: Şeyh Muhammed Nâzım Âdil El-Kıbrısî Hakkanî)...

or Kemalpaşazâde ("son of Kemal Pasha"), was an Ottoman historian, Shaykh al-Islām, jurist and poet. He was born into a distinguished military family...

Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn)...

to a Volga Tatar father, Valery Shaykhlislamov (Şəyxelislamov, from Shaykh al-Islām), a coal miner, and ethnic Russian mother, Olga, a kindergarten music...