List of Shia scholars of Islam
Shia scholars of Islam include:
Alive
- Khorasani, Hossein Vahid (b. 1921)
 - Hamedani, Hossein Noori (b. 1925)
 - Jannati, Ahmad (b. 1927)
 - Mousa Shubairi Zanjani (b. 1927)
 - Naser Makarem Shirazi (b. 1927)
 - al-Fayyad, Mohammad Ishaq (b. 1930)
 - al-Sistani, Ali (b. 1930)
 - al-Qazwini, Mortada (b. 1931)
 - Najafi, Mohammad Hussain (b. 1932)
 - Jannaati, Mohammad Ebrahim (b. 1933)
 - Ostadi, Reza (b. 1937)
 - al-Haeri, Kazem (b. 1938)
 - Khamenei, Ali (b. 1939)
 - Najafi, Bashir (b. 1942)
 - Shirazi, Sadiq (b. 1942)
 - al-Tijani, Mohammad (b. 1943)
 - al-Kourani, Ali (b. 1944)
 - Nateq-Nouri, Ali Akbar (b. 1944)
 - al-Modarresi, Muhammad Taqi (b. 1945)
 - Fallahian, Ali (b. 1945)
 - Khoeiniha, Mohammad (b. 1945)
 - Moezi, Abdolhossein (b. 1945)
 - Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin (b. 1946)
 - al-Modarresi, Hadi (b. 1948)
 - Rouhani, Hassan (b. 1948)
 - Shooshtari, Mohammad Ismaeil (b. 1949)
 - Dorri-Najafabadi, Ghorbanali (b. 1950)
 - Noori, Abdollah (b. 1950)
 - Naqvi, Jawad (b. 1952)
 - Ansari, Majid (b. 1954)
 - Mousavi-Lari, Abdolvahed (b. 1954)
 - Younesi, Ali (b. 1955)
 - Araki, Mohsen (b. 1956)
 - Mohseni-Ejehei, Gholam Hossein (b. 1956)
 - Bagheri, Khosrow (b. 1957)
 - Rizvi, Muhammad (b. 1957)
 - Aga Syed Yousuf Kashmiri
 - Aga Syed Mustafa
 - Mulla Muhammad Muqim-al Bahreni-al Kashmiri ( ملا محمد مقيم البحريني الكشميري )
 - Boroujerdi, Hossein Kazemeyni (b. 1958)
 - Mohsen Kadivar (b. 1959)
 - Abtahi, Mohammad Ali (b. 1960)
 - Khatami, Ahmad (b. 1960)
 - Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi (b. 1960)
 - Nassab, Reza Hosseini (b. 1960)
 - Yaqubi, Mohammad (b. 1960)
 - Leghaei, Mansour (b. 1962)
 - al-Gharavi, Aqeel (b. 1964)
 - Salman, Ali (b. 1965)
 - Naqvi, Ali Naqi (b. 1970)
 - Hasan, Hamidul
 - Masoumi-Tehrani, Abdol-Hamid
 - al-Saghir, Jalal al-Din Ali
 
Deceased
7th century
- Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (died c.695)
 - Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī (665–714)
 - Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi (b. between 661 and 680, died 744–746)
 - Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Fīrūz) al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash (died 746–757)
 - Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib (died c.758)
 - Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi (680-c.765)
 - Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan (c.690 - c.767)
 - Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh (b. in the second half of the seventh century)
 - Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi (b. in the late seventh century)
 
8th century
- Abu Mikhnaf (died 774)
 - Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī (died before 765)
 - al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah (d. 767)
 - Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi (died 767)
 - Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (died 767)
 - Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c.721 – c.815)
 - Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman (723–819)
 - Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī (died 825)
 - Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
 - Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti (769–836)
 - Hasan b. Mahbub (766–839)
 - Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī (died 839)
 - Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm (789–866)
 - ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
 - Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
 
9th century
- Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi (died 870)
 - Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī (died 873)
 - Al-Kindi (died 873)
 - Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (c.811 - c.879)
 - Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti (died 879)
 - Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari (died c. 890)
 - Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi (died 890)
 - Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi (c.815 - c.887/894)
 - Ya'qubi (died 898)
 - Ahmad ibn A'tham (died 926)
 - Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh (died c.940)
 - al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (864–941)
 - Al-Farabi (c.872-950)
 - Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi (died c. 951)
 - Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi (c.883-954)
 - Al-Masudi (c. 896–956)
 - Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi (lived late of ninth century until the half of the tenth century)
 - Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi (lived during the second half of the ninth and beginning of tenth centuries)
 - ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī (lived in 9th century)
 - Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (lived in 9th century)
 - Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi (b. before 817–868)
 
10th century
- Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari (b. c.900)
 - Ibn Qulawayh (died c. 979)
 - Ibn Babwayh (Shaykh al-Saduq) (923–991)
 - Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 995)
 - Al-Sharif al-Radi (970–1015)
 - Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Shaykh al-Mufid) (948–1022)
 - Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir (d.1032)
 - Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD)
 - Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044)
 - Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi (982–1058)
 - Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067)
 - Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902)
 - Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi (lived in 10th century)
 
11th century
- Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010)
 - Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015)
 - Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029)
 - al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan (1093–1153)
 - Ashub, Ibn Shahr (1095–1192)
 
12th century
- Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī (d. 1110)
 - Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī (d. 1119)
 - Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1121)
 - Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī (author of al-Iḥtijāj) (d. 1192)
 - Sayyed Ibn Tawus (1193–1266)
 
13th century
- Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)
 - Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (c.1205–1277)
 - al-Bahrani, Maytham (1238–1299)
 - al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah) (1250–1325)
 
14th century
- Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī (d. 1335)
 - Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī (d. 1353)
 - Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1354)
 - Muḥammad al-Ḥillī (Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn) (d. 1369)
 
15th century
- Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī (d. 1399)
 - Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī (d. 1410)
 - Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī (Ibn al-Mutawwaj) (d. 1416)
 - Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī (Ṣāḥib al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) (d. 1472)
 
16th century
- Asterabadi, Muhammad Baqir (Mir Damad) (d. 1631)
 - Shirazi, Sadr al-Din Muhammad (Mullah Sadra) (1571–1640)
 - al-Majlisi, Muhammad Taqi (Al-Majlisi al-Awwal) (1594–1660)
 
17th century
- al-Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir (Allamah) (1616–1689)
 - al-Āmili, Hur (1624–1693)
 - al-Jaza'iri, Ni'matullah (1640–1700)
 - al-Samahiji, Abdullah (1675–1723)
 - al-Haeri, Nasrallah (1696–1746)
 - al-Bahrani, Yusuf (1695–1772)
 
18th century
- Behbahani, Muhammad Baqir (1706–1792)
 
19th century
- al-Ansari, Murtada (d. 1864)
 - Musavi, Hamid Husayn (1830 - 1880)
 - Shirazi, Abdullah (1892–1984)
 - Tabrizi, Mir-Fatah-Agha (??-1892)
 - Shirazi, Mirza Hasan (1814–1896)
 - Khorasani, Muhammad Kazim (1839–1911)
 - al-Sadr, Ismail (??-1920)
 - al-Sadr, Haydar (1891–1937)
 - Modarres, Hasan (1870–1937)
 - Yazdi, Abdul Karim Haeri (1859–1937)
 - Hasan, Najmul (1863–1938)
 - Esfahani, Muhammad Hossein Qaravi (1879–1942)
 - Roshdieh, Hasan (1851–1944)
 - Yusuf Ali, Abdullah (1872–1953)
 - Kashani, Abul Qasim (1884–1961)
 - Borujerdi, Husayn (1875–1962)
 - al-Hakim, Muhsin (1889–1970)
 - Shirazi, Sultanu'l-Wa'izin (1894–1971)
 - Yazdi, Mahdi Puya (1899–1973)
 - Tabatabaei, Muhammad Husayn (1892–1981)
 - Naqvi, Najafi, Syed Safdar Hussain (1932–1989)
 - al-Khoei, Abul Qasim (1899–1992)
 - Golpaygani, Muhammad Reza (1898–1993)
 - Araki, Muhammad Ali (1895–1994)
 - Arbab, Rahim (1874-??)
 - ibn Salih, Sadr al-Din (1848-??)
 
20th century
- al-Sadr, Sadr al-Din (1882–1954)
 - Rizvi, Ahmad (1901–1964)
 - Rizvi, Mohsin Nawab (1911–1969)
 - Amini, Abdul Hosein (1902–1970)
 - Turabi, Allamah Rasheed (1908–1973)
 - al-Sadr, Musa (1929–1978)
 - Taleghani, Mahmoud (1911–1979)
 - Motahhari, Morteza (1920–1979)
 - al-Sadr, Muhammad Baqir (1935–1980)
 - Beheshti, Muhammad (1928–1981)
 - Bahonar, Muhammad Javad (1933–1981)
 - Shariatmadari, Kazem (1904–1985)
 - Naqvi, Kalbe Abid (1923–1986)
 - Al Shami, Hussian Hadi (1920–2008)
 - Naqvi, Ali Naqi (1905–1988)
 - Khomeini, Ruhullah (1900–1989)
 - al-Musawi, Abbas (1952–1992)
 - Naqvi, Aqa Hasan (1935–1996)
 - al-Sadr, Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq (1943–1999)
 - Jawadi, Syed Zeeshan Haider (1938–2000)
 - Shamseddine, Muhammad Mehdi (1936–2001)
 - Shirazi, Muhammad (1928–2001)
 - Rizvi, Sa'id Akhtar (1927–2002)
 - Rizvi, Syed Ali Akhtar (1948–2002)
 - Khalkhali, Sadegh (1927–2003)
 - al-Hakim, Muhammad Baqir (1939–2003)
 - al-Khoei, Abdul Majid (1962–2003)
 - al-Waeli, Ahmed (1928–2003)
 - Abaee-Khurasani, Muhammad Va'ez (1940–2004)
 - al-Jamri, Abdul Amir (1937–2006)
 - Ansari, Mustafa Hussain (1945–2006)
 - Tabrizi, Mirza Javad (1926–2006)
 - 'Askari, Murtada Sharif (1914–2007)
 - Lankarani, Muhammad Fazel (1931–2007)
 - Tavassoli, Mohammad Reza (1931–2008)
 - al-Hakim, Abdul Aziz (1952–2009)
 - Foumani, Muhammad Taghi Bahjat (1913–2009)
 - Montazeri, Hossein-Ali (1922–2009)
 - Fadhlullah, Muhammad Husayn (1935–2010)
 - Zanjani, Abbasali Amid (1937–2011)
 - Rezvani, Gholamreza (1922–2013)
 - Burhanuddin, Mohammed (1915–2014)
 - Mahdavi Kani, Mohammad Reza (1931–2014)
 - Bahr al-Ulloum, Mohammad (1923–2015)
 - Ardebili, Abdul Karim Mousavi (1926–2016)
 - Tabasi, Abbas Vaez (1935–2016)
 - Aliari, Javad Gharavi (1935–2018)
 - Jafri, Husain Mohammad (1923–2019)
 - Kabuli, Qurban Ali (1928–2019)
 - Shahroudi, Mohammad (1925–2019)
 - Najafabadi Ibrahim Amini (1925–2020)
 - Sadiq, Kalbe (1939–2020)
 - Sanei, Yousef (1937–2020)
 - Taskhiri, Mohammad-Ali (1944–2020)
 - Yazdi, Mohammad (1931–2020)
 - al-Hakim, Mohammad Saeed (1936–2021)
 - Mesbah Yazdi, Mohammad Taghi (1934–2021)
 - Mohtashami-Pur, Ali Akbar (1947–2021)
 - Naqvi, Kalbe Husayn
 - Golpaygani, Lotfollah Safi (1919–2022)
 - Reyshahri, Mohammad (1946–2022)
 - Rohani, Sadeq (1926–2022)
 - Sane'i, Hassan (1934–2023)
 - Emami, Mohammad (1931–2024)