List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam

Shia Muslim scholars of Islam include:

Alive

 * Khorasani, Hossein Vahid (b. 1921)
 * Hamedani, Hossein Noori (b. 1925)
 * Jannati, Ahmad (b. 1927)
 * Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (b. 1927)
 * Naser Makarem Shirazi (b. 1927)
 * al-Fayyad, Mohammad Ishaq (b. 1930)
 * al-Sistani, Ali (b. 1930)
 * al-Qazwini, Mortada (b. 1931)
 * Najafi, Mohammad Hussain (b. 1932)
 * Jannaati, Mohammad Ebrahim (b. 1933)
 * Ostadi, Reza (b. 1937)
 * al-Haeri, Kazem (b. 1938)
 * Khamenei, Ali (b. 1939)
 * Najafi, Bashir (b. 1942)
 * Shirazi, Sadiq (b. 1942)
 * al-Tijani, Mohammad (b. 1943)
 * al-Kourani, Ali (b. 1944)
 * Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar (b. 1944)
 * al-Modarresi, Muhammad Taqi (b. 1945)
 * Fallahian, Ali (b. 1945)
 * Khoeiniha, Mohammad (b. 1945)
 * Moezi, Abdolhossein (b. 1945)
 * al-Modarresi, Hadi (b. 1948)
 * Rouhani, Hassan (b. 1948)
 * Shooshtari, Mohammad Ismaeil (b. 1949)
 * Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali (b. 1950)
 * Noori, Abdollah (b. 1950)
 * Naqvi, Jawad (b. 1952)
 * Ansari, Majid (b. 1954)
 * Mousavi-Lari, Abdolvahed (b. 1954)
 * Younesi, Ali (b. 1955)
 * Araki, Mohsen (b. 1956)
 * Mohseni-Ejehei, Gholam Hossein (b. 1956)
 * Bagheri, Khosrow (b. 1957)
 * Boroujerdi, Hossein Kazemeyni (b. 1958)
 * Mohsen Kadivar (b. 1959)
 * Abtahi, Mohammad Ali (b. 1960)
 * Khatami, Ahmad (b. 1960)
 * Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (b. 1960)
 * Nassab, Reza Hosseini (b. 1960)
 * Yaqubi, Mohammad (b. 1960)
 * Leghaei, Mansour (b. 1962)
 * al-Gharavi, Aqeel (b. 1964)
 * Salman, Ali (b. 1965)
 * Naqvi, Ali Naqi (b. 1970)
 * Hasan, Hamidul
 * Masoumi-Tehrani, Abdol-Hamid
 * al-Saghir, Jalal al-Din Ali
 * Saifuddin, Mufaddal

7th century

 * Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (died c.695)
 * Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī (665–714)
 * Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi (b. between 661 and 680, died 744–746)
 * Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Fīrūz) al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash (died 746–757)
 * Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib (died c.758)
 * Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi (680-c.765)
 * Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan (c.690 - c.767)
 * Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh (b. in the second half of the seventh century)
 * Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi (b. in the late seventh century)

8th century

 * Abu Mikhnaf (died 774)
 * Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī (died before 765)
 * al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah (d. 767)
 * Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi (died 767)
 * Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (died 767)
 * Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c.721 – c.815)
 * Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman (723–819)
 * Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī (died 825)
 * Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
 * Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti(769–836)
 * Hasan b. Mahbub (766–839)
 * Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī (died 839)
 * Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm (789–866)
 * ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
 * Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi (b. in the middle of the 8th century)

9th century

 * Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi (died 870)
 * Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī (died 873)
 * Al-Kindi (died 873)
 * Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (c.811 - c.879)
 * Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti (died 879)
 * Fatima al-Fihri (died 880)
 * Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari (died c. 890)
 * Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi (died 890)
 * Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi (c.815 - c.887/894)
 * Ya'qubi (died 898)
 * Ahmad ibn A'tham (died 926)
 * Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh (died c.940)
 * al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (864–941)
 * Al-Farabi (c.872-950)
 * Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi (died c. 951)
 * Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi (c.883-954)
 * Al-Masudi (c. 896–956)
 * Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi (lived late of ninth century until the half of the tenth century)
 * Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi (lived during the second half of the ninth and beginning of tenth centuries)
 * ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī (lived in 9th century)
 * Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (lived in 9th century)
 * Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi (b. before 817–868)

10th century

 * Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari (b. c.900)
 * Ibn Qulawayh (died c. 979)
 * Ibn Babwayh (Shaykh al-Saduq) (923–991)
 * Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 995)
 * Al-Sharif al-Radi (970–1015)
 * Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Shaykh al-Mufid) (948–1022)
 * Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir (d.1032)
 * Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD)
 * Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044)
 * Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi (982–1058)
 * Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067)
 * Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902)
 * Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi (lived in 10th century)

11th century

 * Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010)
 * Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015)
 * Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029)
 * al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan (1093–1153)
 * Ashub, Ibn Shahr (1095–1192)

12th century

 * Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī (d. 1110)
 * Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī (d. 1119)
 * Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1121)
 * Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī (author of al-Iḥtijāj) (d. 1192)
 * Sayyed Ibn Tawus (1193–1266)

13th century

 * Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)
 * Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (c.1205–1277)
 * al-Bahrani, Maytham (1238–1299)
 * al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah) (1250–1325)

14th century

 * Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī (d. 1335)
 * Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī (d. 1353)
 * Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1354)
 * Muḥammad al-Ḥillī (Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn) (d. 1369)

15th century

 * Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī (d. 1399)
 * Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī (d. 1410)
 * Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī (Ibn al-Mutawwaj) (d. 1416)
 * Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī (Ṣāḥib al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) (d. 1472)

16th century

 * Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir (Mir Damad) (d. 1631)
 * Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad (Mullah Sadra) (1571–1640)
 * al-Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi (Al-Majlisi al-Awwal) (1594–1660)

17th century

 * al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (Allamah) (1616–1689)
 * al-Āmili, Hur (1624–1693)
 * al-Jaza'iri, Ni'matullah (1640–1700)
 * al-Samahiji, Abdullah (1675–1723)
 * al-Haeri, Nasrallah (1696–1746)
 * al-Bahrani, Yusuf (1695–1772)

18th century

 * Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir (1706–1792)

19th century

 * al-Ansari, Murtada (d. 1864)
 * Musavi, Hamid Husayn (1830 - 1880)
 * Shirazi, Abdullah (1892–1984)
 * Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha (??-1892)
 * Shirazi, Mirza Hasan (1814–1896)
 * Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim (1839–1911)
 * al-Sadr, Ismail (??-1920)
 * al-Sadr, Haydar (1891–1937)
 * Modarres, Hasan (1870–1937)
 * Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri (1859–1937)
 * Hasan, Najmul (1863–1938)
 * Esfahani, Muhammad Hossein Qaravi (1879–1942)
 * Roshdieh, Hasan (1851–1944)
 * Yusuf Ali, Abdullah (1872–1953)
 * Kashani, Abul Qasim (1884–1961)
 * Borujerdi, Husayn (1875–1962)
 * al-Hakim, Muhsin (1889–1970)
 * Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin (1894–1971)
 * Yazdi, Mahdi Puya (1899–1973)
 * Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn (1892–1981)
 * Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain (1932–1989)
 * al-Khoei, Abul Qasim (1899–1992)
 * Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza (1898–1993)
 * Araki, Muhammad Ali (1895–1994)
 * Arbab, Rahim (1874-??)
 * ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din (1848-??)

20th century

 * al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din (1882–1954)
 * Rizvi, Ahmad (1901–1964)
 * Rizvi, Mohsin Nawab (1911–1969)
 * Amini, Abdul Hosein (1902–1970)
 * Turabi, Allamah Rasheed (1908–1973)
 * al-Sadr, Musa (1929–1978)
 * Taleghani, Mahmoud (1911–1979)
 * Motahhari, Morteza (1920–1979)
 * al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–1980)
 * Beheshti, Muhammad (1928–1981)
 * Bahonar, Muhammad Javad (1933–1981)
 * Shariatmadari, Kazem (1904–1985)
 * Naqvi, Kalbe Abid (1923–1986)
 * Naqvi, Ali Naqi (1905–1988)
 * Khomeini, Ruhullah (1900–1989)
 * al-Musawi, Abbas (1952–1992)
 * Naqvi, Aqa Hasan (1935–1996)
 * al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq (1943–1999)
 * Jawadi, Syed Zeeshan Haider (1938–2000)
 * Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi (1936–2001)
 * Shirazi, Muhammad (1928–2001)
 * Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar (1927–2002)
 * Rizvi, Syed Ali Akhtar (1948–2002)
 * Khalkhali, Sadegh (1927–2003)
 * al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir (1939–2003)
 * al-Khoei, Abdul Majid (1962–2003)
 * al-Waeli, Ahmed (1928–2003)
 * Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez (1940–2004)
 * al-Jamri, Abdul Amir (1937–2006)
 * Ansari, Mustafa Hussain (1945–2006)
 * Tabrizi, Mirza Javad (1926–2006)
 * 'Askari, Murtada Sharif (1914–2007)
 * Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel (1931–2007)
 * Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza (1931–2008)
 * al-Hakim, Abdul Aziz (1952–2009)
 * Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat (1913–2009)
 * Montazeri, Hossein-Ali (1922–2009)
 * Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
 * Zanjani, Abbasali Amid (1937–2011)
 * Rezvani, Gholamreza (1922–2013)
 * Burhanuddin, Mohammed (1915–2014)
 * Mahdavi Kani, Mohammad Reza (1931–2014)
 * Bahr al-Ulloum, Mohammad (1923–2015)
 * Ardebili, Abdul Karim Mousavi (1926–2016)
 * Tabasi, Abbas Vaez (1935–2016)
 * Aliari, Javad Gharavi (1935–2018)
 * Jafri, Husain Mohammad (1923–2019)
 * Kabuli, Qurban Ali (1928–2019)
 * Shahroudi, Mohammad (1925–2019)
 * Najafabadi Ibrahim Amini (1925–2020)
 * Sadiq, Kalbe (1939–2020)
 * Sanei, Yousef (1937–2020)
 * Taskhiri, Mohammad-Ali (1944–2020)
 * Yazdi, Mohammad (1931–2020)
 * al-Hakim, Mohammad Saeed (1936–2021)
 * Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Taghi (1934–2021)
 * Mohtashami-Pur, Ali Akbar (1947–2021)
 * Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
 * Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi (1919–2022)
 * Reyshahri, Mohammad (1946–2022)
 * Rohani, Sadeq (1926–2022)
 * Sane'i, Hassan (1934–2023)
 * Emami, Mohammad (1931–2024)