Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-435) and index.
Contents
Prophet Muhammad -- Umar ibn al-Khattab -- Ali ibn Abi Talib -- Abu Bakr al-Siddiq -- Uthman ibn Affan -- Aishah bint Abu Bakr -- Khadijah bint Khuwailid -- Khalid ibn al-Walid -- Hussain ibn Ali -- Abu Hurairah -- Fatimah bint Muhammad -- Bilal ibn Rabah -- Al-Bukhari -- Abu Hanifah -- Abul Hasan al-Ashʻari -- Salah al-Din Ayyubi -- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali -- Al-Shafiʹi -- Al-Khwarizmi -- Ahmad ibn Hanbal -- Ibn Khaldun -- Malik ibn Anas -- Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz -- Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani -- Ibn Sina -- Ibn Taymiyyah -- Nizam al-Mulk -- Al-Kindi -- Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- Harun al-Rashid -- Abd al-Rahman I -- Tariq ibn Ziyad -- Sultan Muhammad II -- Al-Biruni -- Sulaiman the Magnificent -- Jaʹfar al-Sadiq -- Abd al-Rahman III -- Ibn Ishaq -- Abdullah al-Maʹmun -- Ibn Rushd -- Timur the Conqueror -- Akbar the Great -- Al-Farabi -- Al-Tabari -- Ibn Battutah -- Jabir ibn-Hayyan -- Mimar Sinan -- Abu Bakr al-Razi -- Hasan al-Basri -- Ibn al-Haytham -- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj -- Mahmud of Ghazna -- Muhammad ibn al-Qasim -- Musa ibn Nusayr -- Shah Jahan -- Abul Hasan al-Masʹudi -- Abul Qasim al-Zahrawi -- Ibn Arabi -- Umar Khayyam -- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani -- Ibn Abd al-Wahhab -- Rabiʹa al-Adawiyyah -- Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan -- Al-Hallaj -- Hasan al-Banna -- Khwajah Naqshband -- Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi -- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah -- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi -- Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- Firdawsi of Persia -- Muʹin al-Din Chishti -- Nur al-Din Zangi -- Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi -- Ayatullah Khomeini -- Awrangzeb Alamgir -- Ibn Tufayl -- Muhammad Ilyas -- Sayyid Qutb -- Yahya al-Nawawi -- Muhammad Abduh -- Sir Muhammad Iqbal -- Abul Hasan al-Shadhili -- Shah Waliullah -- Shamyl of Daghestan -- Abul Aʹla Mawdudi -- Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi -- Muhammad Yunus -- Shaykh Saʹdi of Shiraz -- Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan -- The Mahdi of Sudan -- Al-Mutanabbi -- Uthman Dan Fodio -- Mulla Sadra -- Malcolm X -- Saʹid Nursi -- Muhammad Ali -- Conclusion -- Chronology of Islamic history.
Summary
Profiles influential Muslims from the 1400-year history of the Muslim world.
