Indian Islamic religious leaders

Syed Mohammad Baba Tajuddin also known as Tajuddin Baba (January 27, 1861 – August 17, 1925) is an Indian Sufi Master whose followers considered the last Mujaddid and Qutb. His shrine is in Nagpur, India.

Pangil Ahmed Kutty Musliyar (Malayalam: പാങ്ങില് അഹ്മദ് കുട്ടി മുസ്ലിയാറ്, Arabic: بانغل احمد كدي مسليار) prominent scholar hailing from Kerala, is the second president of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama. He was the spear head of Sunni horde during the early period of the intellectual war against the novelty based group and was the reformer leader of Mappilas. His lineage reaches to Swahabas and Thabees.

Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (born 18 October 1965) is an Indian Islamic televangelist and preacher. He is currently a criminal absconder in charges related to funding terror activities, hate speech, inciting communal hatred, and money laundering. He fled from India in 2016 and is a wanted criminal in India. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and Peace TV.

Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal is the President of Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, the largest Muslim organisation in Kerala, India. He was selected as the President in January, 2017, following the death of Kumaramputhur AP Muhammed Musliyar in 2016.

Nisar Nadiadwala was born on 10 March 1962. He is well known as a public speaker on Islam and interfaith dialogues in India. He has worked in the Research Department at the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) as an Executive and then Head of the Department from 2001 to 2013.

Kanthapuram A. P. Aboobacker Musliyar (Arab world known as: Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmad (شيخ ابوبكر أحمد)), Malayalam: കാന്തപുരം എ.പി. അബൂബക്കര്‍ മുസ്ലിയാര്‍ (born on 22 March 1939) is the leader and scholar of one of the traditionalist Sunni Muslims in Kerala, India. Usthad Shaikh Aboobackar bin Ahmad is the General Secretary of the All India Muslim Scholars Association (All India Sunni Jam-Iyyathul Ulema) and founder and Chancellor of Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya (Sunni Cultural Centre), Karanthur, Kozhikode, Kerala. He is also chief patron of the Sunni Youth Society and General Secretary,Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ulema (Kerala) Kanthapuram is a scholar, orator, writer, organizer, educationist and fore-fighter of social revivalism. Over the years Kanthapuram has expressed very conservative views on women's liberties. Kanthapuram was 10th accused in Chekannur Maulavi murder case, he was acquitted by the Kerala HC.

Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi (16 March 1892 – 6 January 1977) was an Indian Muslim writer on, and exegete of, the Qur'an. Daryabadi was actively associated with the Khilafat Movement; Royal Asiatic Society, London; Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh; Nadwatul Ulema, Lucknow; Shibli Academy, Azamgarh, and several other leading Islamic and literary organisations. In addition to contributing an extensive commentary on the Qur'an in English, Daryabadi wrote also an independent Tafsir in Urdu published as Tafsir Majidi (Academy of Islamic Research and Publications, Lucknow). He also authored book Hakeem -ul- Ummat in 1950. He also authored a biography, Muhammad Ali Zati Diary, in 1943.

Ashraf 'Ali Thanwi (August 19, 1863 – July 4, 1943) (Urdu: اشرف علی تھانوی‎) was an Indian scholar of the Deobandi school.

Shibli Nomani (Urdu: علّامہ شِبلی نُعمانی‎ – ʿAllāmah Šiblī Noʿmānī; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914, Azamgarh district) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh. He is known for the founding of the Shibli National College in 1883 and the Darul Mussanifin (House of Writers) in Azamgarh. Shibli was a scholar in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu. He was also a poet. He collected much material on the life of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad but could write only first two volumes of the planned work the Sirat-un-Nabi. His disciple, Sulaiman Nadvi, made use of this material and added to it and also wrote remaining five volumes of the work, the Sirat-un-Nabi after the death of his mentor.

Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (Arabic: سیدنا محمد برھان الدین‎; 6 March 1915 – 17 January 2014) was the 52nd Dā'ī al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohras, a subgroup within the Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam. He was appointed as the 52nd Dā'ī al-Mutlaq at the age of 52 in 1967. He was the longest living Dā'ī al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohra community. Upon the death of Burhanuddin the yet unresolved succession crisis owing to the 53rd Syedna succession controversy (Dawoodi Bohra) lead to two claimants vying for the post of Dā'ī of Dawoodi Bohra leading to various cases filed in Bombay High Court on the succession issue of Dawoodi Bohras. Compared to those of his predecessor, Burhanuddin's policies were aimed at Islamization of his sect.