People Flashcards
Abu Hanifa
Lived in Baghdad during 8th Century. Jurist and founded the Hanafi school of legal thought - relied less on tradition of Medina and more on reason; oldest and largest school
Malik
Lived in Medina during 8th Century. Jurist and founded Malik school of legal thought - the Qur’an is the primary source of derivation of rulings
Al-Shafi’i
Lived in Baghdad then Egypt in the 8th/9th Century. Jurist and founder of Shafi’i school of legal thought - author of earliest treatise on legal hereneutics
Ibn Hanbal
Lived in Baghdad during the 9th Century - Jurist and founder of Hanbali school of legal thought - jurist known for his austerity and rejection of Mu’tazili notions about the Qur’an’s createdness. Very strict and conservative
Zayd b. ‘Ali
Lived in Medina during 8th Century - respected member of Muhammad bloodline; grandson of Husayn; lead revolt in Kufa against Umayyads - the first Zaydi Imam
Qadi Nu’man
Lived in North Africa during the 10th Century - Isma’ili jurist; official historian of Fatimid caliphs
Five Shi’i Imams need to know are?
'Ali Husayn Ja'far al-Sadiq Hasan al-'Askari Muhammad al-Mahdi
‘Ali
(Shi’i Imam) Lived in Kufa during 7th Century - cousin of Muhammad and then son-in-law. One of first Islam converts, fourth caliph - Shi’ites regard him as first Imam. For Sunni’s one of the four “rightly guided caliphs”
Husayn
(Shi’i Imam) Lived in Medina/Mecca during the 7th Century. Muhammad’s youngest grandson through Muhammad’s daughter Fatima; Third Shi’ite Imam; Martyred in Karbala by forces of Umayyad Caliph Yazid
Ja’far al-Sadiq
(Shi’i Imam) Lived in Medina during the 8th Century. 6th Imam and founder of Shi’i fiqh. Was an important early pious figure and religious scholar
Hasan al-‘Askari
(Shi’i Imam) Lived in the Abbasid Empire in the 9th Century. 11th Imam and father of 12th Imam who is in hiding. Was poisoned and killed
Muhammad al-Mahdi
(Shi’i Imam) Lived in the Abbasid Empire in the 9th Century. Believed to be in hiding as the 12th Imam and will come back at the end of time
Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya
She was the first Sufi Saint based in Basra lived during the 8th/9th Century
Rumi
Sufi poet and founder of Mevlevi order - Lived in Konya during the 13th Century
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd-al Wahhab
Lived in Emirate of Diriyah during the 18th Century. Was a Muslim religious leader and reformer who condemned any religious practice that could not be traced directly back to the Prophet
Muhammad al-Sanusi
Lived in Algeria during the 18th/19th Century. Founder of the Muslim Sunusi order; a Muslim scholar and anti-colonial figure
Muhammad ‘Abduh
Lived in Egypt during the 20th Century - was a Muslim reformer Mufti/Jurist; Founder of modern Salafi movement
Rashid Rida
Lived in Egypt during the 19th/20th Century - believed in only two forms of Islam, the Qur’an and Sunna; Muslim religious reformer and disciple of Muhammad ‘Abduh
Hasan al-Banna
Lived in Egypt during the 20th Century. Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and thought that “the Qur’an is our constitution and the Prophet is our example”
Queen Arwa
Lived in Yemen in the 11th Century - was the Muslim Isma’ili Queen based in Yemen
Fatima Mernissi
Lives in Morocco during the 21st Century - Moroccan Muslim feminist - believes that the Prophet wanted to elevate women
Sheikh Hasina
Lives in Bangladesh during the 21st Century - Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Abdurrahman Wahid
Lives in Indonesia during the 21st Century - President of Indonesia; believed in separation of religion and state.
Elijah Muhammad
Lived in the United States during the 20th Century - a mentor of Malcolm X and the leader of the Nation of Islam
Hamza Yusuf
Lives in Northern California in the 21st Century - founder of Zaytuna College and signed “A Common Word Between Us and You” by Islamic scholars and Christian leaders calling for peace and understanding
Amina Wadud
Lives in the United States in the 21st Century - is a Muslim feminist and scholar who converted to Islam at age of 20 and became a female Imam in 2005.
