42 Muslim writers

Ihsan Abdel Quddous was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in Egypt's Al Akhbar and Al-Ahram newspapers. He is known to have written many novels that have been adapted in films.

Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat, often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources,, was an Arab astrologer and a student of Mashallah.

Mirza Adeeb,, also known as Meerza Adeeb,, was a Pakistani Urdu writer of dramas and short stories. His plays and short stories won him six prizes and awards from the Pakistan Writers' Guild.

Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad is a Palestinian American scholar and the president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a libertarian 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Muslim think-tank. He also is president of the Islamic-American Zakat Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt religious and charitable organization that primarily serves poor and needy Muslims in the United States.

Ahsan Akbar is an English poet and writer of Bangladeshi descent.

Ali ibn Abi Talib was a cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661. He is one of the central figures in Shia Islam and is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad as an Imam by Shia Muslims.

Kazim Ali is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are Inquisition and All One's Blue. His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry and essays have been featured in many literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, Jubilat, The Iowa Review, West Branch and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2007.

Sharifa Alkhateeb (1946–2004) was a Muslim writer, researcher and teacher on cultural communication and community building for Islam and Muslims in the United States. She was involved in feminist causes, domestic violence prevention, as well as interfaith and educational organizations. She founded the first nationwide organization for Muslim women in the US and was the first woman to receive the Community Service Award from the Islamic Society of North America.

Ayatullah Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi also known as Allama Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is a leading Indian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, thinker, writer, poet, educationist, community activist, critic, columnist and a mujtahid. Presently, Aqeel-ul-Gharavi is acknowledged as one of the most famous and senior scholars of Shia Islam around the world. He was the principal of Hawza-e-Ilmia Jamia-tus-Saqalain, Delhi and is the current chairman of Safinatul Hidaya Trust, India. He is the vice-President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Syed Aqeel is also a member of the Majma Jahani Ahlulbayt, Iran. Gharavi supervises PhD students at the Aligarh University, India. In addition to all of these, he also serves as patron of Imamia Islamic University, Delhi and secretary of Forum of Philosophers, India.

Anthony George Baker was an American Protestant clergyman and medical doctor who converted to Islam.

Muhammad Salim Barakat is an Arab writer, translator and teacher of Arabic language. He has trained outstanding French university teachers of Arabic and Orientalist scholars at the end of the 20th century such as Jean-Yves L'hopital, George Bohas, Lidia Bettini, Anne Regourd, and Thierry Bianquis. He was born in Damascus in 1930 and died in it in 1999. He is not to be confused with his homonym, the Kurdish-Syrian novelist and poet Salim Barakat.

Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interested in North Africa, and was considered a proficient writer on the subject despite learning about the region only through correspondence. After an invitation from photographer Louis David, Eberhardt moved to Algeria in May 1897. She dressed as a man and converted to Islam, eventually adopting the name Si Mahmoud Saadi. Eberhardt's unorthodox behaviour made her an outcast among European settlers in Algeria and the French administration.

Abidullah Ansari Ghazi is an Indian American author, educator and poet. He has written more than 140 Islamic educational textbooks for children. He is also the executive director of IQRA' International Educational Foundation.

Rupa Asha Huq MP is a British Labour Party politician, columnist and academic. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton at the 2015 general election. She was formerly a lecturer in sociology at Kingston University.

Mohamed "Ed" Husain is a British writer, senior fellow at the British think tank Civitas, and a global fellow of the Wilson Center's Middle East program. He is the author of The Islamist, an account of his five years as an Islamist activist in Britain, and The House of Islam: A Global History, which discusses the classical tenets of Islam and the ways in which they have been distorted by political Islamists. He regularly advises governments on national security and combatting extremist ideology.

Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Egyptian Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Middle East and North Africa. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" . He was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature fourteen times.

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī (1213–1286), also known as Ibn Saʿīd al-Andalusī, was an Arab geographer, historian, poet, and the most important collector of poetry from al-Andalus in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Sabirul Islam is an English entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. He has written three self-help books. His Teen-Trepreneur board game sold to over 550 schools in the United Kingdom and in 14 countries worldwide. Since 2011, he has spoken at over 700 events worldwide as part of his Inspire1Million campaign.

Abid Ullah Jan is a featured writer and community development specialist in Ottawa Ontario, Canada. He has conceptualized and implemented a model of crime prevention through social development in South East Ottawa, called No Community Left Behind (NCLB). The program won several Awards, including Community Builder of the Year Award from the United Way Ottawa. Abid Jan was also awarded with Community Safety Leader award by Crime prevention ottawa on November 3, 2009, and Heroes Among Us award by OCISO Ottawa on March 10, 2010.

Zuhdi Jasser, also known as M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Mohamed Zuhdi Jasser is an American medical doctor specializing in internal medicine and nuclear cardiology in Phoenix, Arizona. Jasser is a former lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, where he served as staff internist in the Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. In 2003, with a group of American Muslims, Jasser founded the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) based in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 2004 he was one of the founders of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.

Saniyasnain Khan is an Indian television host and children's author of over 100 children's books on Islamic topics.

Hamis Kiggundu, commonly known as Ham, is a Ugandan businessman, investor, real estate and property developer, country loyalist, philanthropist, and author.

Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her Licence ès Lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics.

ʿAbū Ṭālib ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Ḥasan al-Maʾmūnī was an Arabic poet, noted for his epigrammatic writing.

Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. He is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam.

Samar Samir Mezghanni is a Tunisian children's author.

Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi distinguished Professor of University of Tehran, was an Iranian Literary researcher and author. He was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran on March 18, 1896 and died on November 19, 1986 in Tehran, Iran.

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam is a writer and a political activist in Afghanistan. He was a senior government official in Afghanistan and served as a Deputy Senior Adviser to The President Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a Senior Analyst/ Advisor to NATO and the Chairman of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Network (AACN).

Abdul Malik Mujahid is an American Muslim imam and also a producer, author, and non-profit entrepreneur. He was born in Pakistan in 1951. Mujahid has been selected eight times as one of the "World's 500 Most Influential Muslims".

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is a Pakistani-Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Pakistan Awami Tehreek.

Bashy Quraishy is a Danish-Pakistani author and consultant regarding minority rights.

Adil Ray, is a British actor, comedian and radio and television presenter. Ray also stars in the BBC One comedy Citizen Khan, which he created and co-writes, as well as presenting on various BBC radio stations and working as a relief presenter on ITV's Good Morning Britain.

Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist who was a chair of the National Council of the now-defunct Respect Party. She was captured by the Taliban in 2001. She later converted to Islam. She is a vocal supporter of Palestine, which she took up as a schoolgirl. She is an avid critic of Zionism and of Western media portrayals and foreign policy in the War on Terror, and has undertaken speaking tours throughout the Muslim world as well as America, Europe and Australia. She has been called "something close to a celebrity in the Islamic world" by the journalist Rachel Cooke, and in 2008 was voted the "most recognisable woman in the Islamic world" by Islam Online.

Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu (born 23 March 1953) is the former minister of Communications from Oyo State, Nigeria, his tenure ended in 2019. He became the youngest Honourable member at age 26, to take the office of the Honourable Member of the Oyo State House of Assembly.

Sineb El Masrar is a Moroccan-German author, journalist, and Islamic feminist.

Shahjahan Begum was the Begum of Bhopal for two periods: 1844–60, and secondly during 1868–1901.

Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1998. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into Basque, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Arabic.

Maria Toorpakai Wazir is a professional Pakistani squash player. She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Muslim girl, using the name Genghis Khan, fully supported by her Muslim parents.

Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb was an American writer, publisher, and the United States Consul to the Philippines. He converted to Islam in 1888, and is considered by historians to be the earliest prominent Anglo-American Muslim convert. In 1893 he was the only person representing Islam at the first Parliament of the World's Religions.

Michael B. Wolfe is an American poet, author, and the President and Co-Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation. A secular American born in Cincinnati, Ohio to a Christian mother and a Jewish father, Wolfe converted to Islam at 40 and has been a frequent lecturer on Islamic issues at universities across the United States including Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, and Princeton. He holds a degree in Classics from Wesleyan University.

Muhammed Hamdi Yazır also known as Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır and Elmalılı was a Turkish theologian, logician, Qur'an translator, Qur'anic exegesis scholar, Islamic legal academic, philosopher and encyclopedist.

Malala Yousafzai, often referred to mononymously as Malala, is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.