ulemas
21 notable ulemas on file — 1 still here, 20 not.
still with us
gone
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Ruhollah Khomeini
deadSupreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989
1902 – 1989
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Hasan Nasrallah
deadLeader of Hezbollah
1960 – 2024
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Hashem Safieddine
deadLebanese politician
1964 – 2024
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Esmaeil Khatib
deadIranian cleric
1961 – 2026
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Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
deadPakistani scholar
1927 – 2025
Hisham Kabbani
deadAmerican Sufi leader
1945 – 2024
Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem
deadrepresentative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan, Iran
1962 – 2024
Javad Khamenei
deadfather of Iran's supreme leader
1895 – 1986
Muhammad al-Fayadh
deadAfghan Grand Ayatollah
1930 – 2026
Abu Ishaq al-Houweny
deadIslamic scholar
1956 – 2025
Salmān al-Ḥusaynī al-Nadwī
deadIndian scholar
1954 – 2026
Siti Chamamah Soeratno
deadIndonesian Islamic scholar
1941 – 2026
Mohammad Emami-Kashani
deadIranian cleric
1931 – 2024
Abdul Majeed al-Zindani
deadYemeni politician
1942 – 2024
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Ismail Berdiyev
deadRussian mufti and religious leader
1954 – 2024
Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri
deadIndian Muslim scholar
1938 – 2024
Mohammad Ebrahim Jannaati
deadIranian Grand Ayatollah
1933 – 2026
Ali Kutty Musliyar
deadIndian Islamic scholar
1945 – 2026
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Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi
deadPakistani islamic scholar
1953 – 2025
Ali Al-Kourani
deadShia cleric
1944 – 2024