List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam
Alive
- al-Fayyad, Mohammad Ishaq
- al-Gharavi, Aqeel
- al-Haeri, Kazem
- al-Hakim, Mohammad Saeed
- al-Kourani, Ali
- al-Modarresi, Muhammad Taqi
- al-Modarresi, Hadi
- al-Qazwini, Mortada
- al-Tijani, Mohammad
- al-Saghir, Jalal al-Din Ali
- al-Sistani, Ali
- Abtahi, Mohammad Ali
- Ansari, Majid
- Ashub, Ibn Shahr
- Araki, Mohsen
- Bagheri, Khosrow
- Bukhari, Fida Hussain
- Boroujerdi, Hossein Kazemeyni
- Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali
- Emami, Mohammad
- Fallahian, Ali
- Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi
- Hamedani, Hossein Noori
- Hasan, Hamidul
- Jannaati, Mohammad Ebrahim
- Jannati, Ahmad
- Khamenei, Ali
- Khatami, Ahmad
- Khorasani, Hossein Vahid
- Khoeiniha, Mohammad
- Leghaei, Mansour
- Masoumi-Tehrani,Abdol-Hamid
- Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Taghi
- Moezi, Abdolhossein
- Mousavi-Lari, Abdolvahed
- Mohseni-Ejehei, Gholam Hossein
- Mohsen Kadivar
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi
- Mousa Shubairi Zanjani
- Mohtashami-Pur, Ali Akbar
- Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar
- Naqvi, Ali Naqi
- Najafi, Bashir
- Naqvi, Jawad
- Naser Makarem Shirazi
- Nassab, Reza Hosseini
- Najafi, Mohammad Hussain
- Noori, Abdollah
- Ostadi, Reza
- Reyshahri, Mohammad
- Rouhani, Hassan
- Rohani, Sadeq
- Salman, Ali
- Shirazi, Sadiq
- Sadiq, Kalbe
- Sane'i, Hassan
- Sanei, Yousef
- Shooshtari, Mohammad Ismaeil
- Taskhiri, Mohammad-Ali
- Yaqubi, Mohammad
- Yazdi, Mohammad
- Younesi, Ali
Deceased
An incomplete list of Shia Muslim scholars listed based on the century in which they were born;7th century
- Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī
- Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan
- Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh
- Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi
- Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi
- Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib
- Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi
- Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash
- Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī
8th century
- al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah
- Abu Mikhnaf
- Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti
- Hasan b. Mahbub
- Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman
- Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī
- Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī
- Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī
- Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm
- ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī
- Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi
- Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī
- Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī
- Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi
- Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī
- Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān
- Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Al-Waqidi
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah
9th century
- al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub
- Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī
- Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi
- Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi
- Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi
- Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti
- Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī
- Al-Kindi
- Fatima al-Fihri
- Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari
- Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi
- Ahmad ibn A'tham
- Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi
- Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh
- Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi
- Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi
- Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi
- Fadl b. Shadhan b. Khalil al-Azdi
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī
- Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi
- Ya'qubi
- Al-Masudi
- Al-Farabi
10th century
- Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani
- Muhammad al-Baghdadi
- al-Murtadha
- al-Saduq
- Tusi, Abu Ja‘far
- Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir
- Sharif al-Murtaza
- Al-Sharif al-Radi
- Ibn Jonayd Eskafi
- Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari
- Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi
- Ibn al-Nadim
- Ibn Babawayh
- Ibn Qulawayh
- Avicenna
11th century
- al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan
- Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī
- Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī,
- Muḥammad al-Qummī
12th century
- Sayyed Ibn Tawus
- Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī
- Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī
- Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī
- Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī
13th century
- al-Bahrani, Maytham
- al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan
- Tusi, Nasir al-Din
- Muhaqqiq al-Hilli
14th century
- Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī
- Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī
- Muḥammad al-Ḥillī
15th century
- Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī
- Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī
- Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī
- Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī
16th century
- al-Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi
- Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir
- Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad
17th century
- al-Āmili, Hur
- al-Bahrani, Yusuf
- al-Haeri, Nasrallah
- al-Jaza'iri, Ni'matullah
- al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir
- al-Samahiji, Abdullah
18th century
- Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir
19th century
- al-Ansari, Murtada
- al-Hakim, Muhsin
- al-Khoei, Abul Qasim
- al-Sadr, Haydar
- al-Sadr, Ismail
- Araki, Muhammad Ali
- Arbab, Rahim
- Borujerdi, Husayn
- Esfahani, Muhammad Hossein Qaravi
- Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza
- Hasan, Najmul
- Kashani, Abul Qasim
- Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim
- Musavi, Hamid Husayn
- Modarres, Hasan
- Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain
- Roshdieh, Hasan
- Shirazi, Abdullah
- Shirazi, Mirza Hasan
- ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din
- Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin
- Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn
- Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha
- Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri
- Yazdi, Mahdi Puya
- Yusuf Ali, Abdullah
20th century
- Naqvi, Kalbe Abid
- Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez
- al-Hakim, Abdul Aziz
- al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir
- al-Jamri, Abdul Amir
- al-Khoei, Abdul Majid
- al-Musawi, Abbas
- al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir
- al-Sadr, Muhammad Sadiq
- al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq
- al-Sadr, Musa
- al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din
- al-Waeli, Ahmed
- Aliari, Javad Gharavi
- Amini, Abdul Hosein
- Ansari, Mustafa Hussain
- Ardebili, Abdul Karim Mousavi
- 'Askari, Murtada Sharif
- Bahonar, Muhammad Javad
- Bahr al-Ulloum, Mohammad
- Beheshti, Muhammad
- Burhanuddin, Mohammed
- Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn
- Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat
- Naqvi, Aqa Hasan
- Jafri, Husain Mohammad
- Jawadi, Syed Zeeshan Haider
- Kabuli, Qurban Ali
- Khalkhali, Sadegh
- Khomeini, Ruhullah
- Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel
- Mahdavi Kani, Mohammad Reza
- Montazeri, Hossein-Ali
- Motahhari, Morteza
- Najafabadi Ibrahim Amini
- Naqvi, Ali Naqi
- Rezvani, Gholamreza
- Rizvi, Ahmad
- Rizvi, Mohsin Nawab
- Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
- Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar
- Rizvi, Syed Ali Akhtar
- Shahroudi, Mohammad
- Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi
- Shariatmadari, Kazem
- Shirazi, Muhammad
- Tabasi, Abbas Vaez
- Tabrizi, Mirza Javad
- Taleghani, Mahmoud
- Turabi, Allamah Rasheed
- Zanjani, Abbasali Amid
- Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza