List of Shia Muslims-Cedar Herald Index

The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims.

Scientists, mathematicians and academics

. Ali ibn Ridwan – Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher Al-ʻIjliyyah – 10th-century female maker of astrolabes Ibn al-Nadim – 10th century bibliophile of Baghdad and compiler of the Arabic bibliographic-biographic encyclopedia Kitāb al-Fihrist ('The Book Catalogue') Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani – Persian philosopher Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī – astronomer, mathematician Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī – Arab Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi – Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer Ibn al-Tiqtaqa – Iraqi Arab Muslim historian Iskandar Beg Munshi – court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi – chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist. Mulla Sadra – philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy Mir Damad – Iranian philosopher Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor. Rammal Rammal – Lebanese condensed matter physicist Allama Rasheed Turabi – Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher Kazem Behbehani – Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became an international health advocate at WHO. Lotfi Asker Zadeh – Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy set theory. Cumrun Vafa – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Harvard, Winner of Breakthrough Prize Nima Arkani-Hamed – Iranian-American theoretical physicist at Princeton, winner of Breakthrough Prize Ehsan Afshari – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan Ali Javan – Iranian-American physicist and inventor Yasaman Farzan – Iranian theoretical physicist Saba Valadkhan – Iranian biomedical researcher Fereydoon Family – Iranian physicist Mahmoud Hessaby – Iranian physicist Iraj Malekpour – Iranian physicist Mehran Kardar – theoretical physicist, MIT Omid Kordestani – senior vice president, Worldwide Sales and Fields Operations, Google Ali Hajimiri – Caltech, co-founder of Axiom Microdevices Payam Heydari – electrical engineer and computer scientist, University of California Irvine Ali Khademhosseini – Iranian-American-Canadian biomedical engineer at Harvard Babak Hassibi – electrical engineer, Caltech Caro Lucas – Iranian Armenian scientist Ali Chamseddine – Lebanese theoretical physicist Wissam S. al-Hashimi – Iraqi geologist Husain Mohammad Jafri – academician Athar Ali – Pakistani system engineer and a rocket scientist Pervez Hoodbhoy – nuclear physicist and activist Agha Shahi – diplomat and technocrat Razi Abedi – literary figure, activist and scholar of Pakistan Nayyar Ali Zaidi – Pakistani architect Kalbe Razi Naqvi – British Pakistani physicist Aziz Sancar – American scientist Ahmed Zewail – American chemist Kalbe Sadiq – Academic and reformer

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Historical political figures

Late Islamic history

Syed Muhammad Mir Ali Naqvi – Chief Justice of the court of Akbar the Great, Mir Adal; served on the court, 1579–1581; governor of Sindh Hasan ibn Zayd – founder of the Alavids dynasty Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya – founder of the Zaidi imamate State Sayf al-Daula – ruler of the Hamdanid dynasty (945–967) Mu'izz al-Daula – ruler of the Buyid dynasty (945–967) Abu 'Abdullah al-Shi'i – a Da'i for the Isma'ilis in Yemen and North Africa mainly among the Kutama Berbers, whose teachings influenced the rise of the Fatimid dynasty Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah – founder of the Fatimid dynasty Al-Muizz Lideenillah – fourth Fatimid Caliph Founder of the city of Cairo Sitt al-Mulk – ruler of the Fatimids (1021–1023); elder sister of Al-Hakim Arwa al-Sulayhi – ruler, first through her two husbands and then alone, of Yemen Sharifa Fatima – Zaydi chief in 15th-century Yemen Salih ibn Mirdas – founder of the Mirdasids emirate Muhammad ibn al-Musayyib – founder of the Uqaylid Dynasty Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah - ruler of the Golconda Sultanate founder of the city of Hyderabad

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