List of Famous people named Muhammad
Muhammad Abd El-Ghani El-Gamasy
Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy was an Egyptian Field Marshal (Mushir) and the Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces. He has been called "one of the architects of the 1973 War."
Muhammad Ali Abdur Rahkman
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman is an American basketball player for the Canton Charge of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Michigan Wolverines. Abdur-Rahkman played high school basketball for Allentown Central Catholic High School in his hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he was a four-time Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) Class AAA All-State selection.
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
Al-Tabari was an influential Iranian scholar, historian and commentator on the Qur'an of either a Persian or Arab origin from Amol, Tabaristan, who composed all his works in Arabic. Today, he is best known for his expertise in Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) and Historiography but he has been described as "an impressively prolific polymath. He wrote on such subjects as world history, poetry, lexicography, grammar, ethics, mathematics, and medicine."
Muhammad Wilkerson
Muhammad Hassan Wilkerson is a former American football defensive end. He played college football at Temple, and was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft.
Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi
Mohammed Tawfik Allawi is an Iraqi politician who was the Minister of Communications in the Iraqi Government and was also Minister of Communications in the Al Maliki government from May 2006 until August 2008 and from 2010 to 2012. Both times he resigned from his position in protest against al-Maliki's sectarian agenda and political interference. He was nominated to serve as Prime Minister of Iraq in February 2020, but withdrew his nomination after failing to win a vote of confidence in the Parliament.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Muhammad Taqi Usmani, is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and former judge who is the president of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia and the vice president and Hadith professor of the Darul Uloom Karachi. An intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement, he has authored 143 books in Urdu, Arabic and English, including a translation of the Qur'an in both English and Urdu as well a 6-volume commentary on the Sahih Muslim in Arabic, Takmilat Fath al-Mulhim and Uloomu-l-Qur'an. He has written and lectured extensively on hadith, and Islamic finance. He chairs the Shariah Board of the Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He is also a permanent member of the Jeddah-based International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an organ of the OIC.
Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah is the former deputy prime minister and served as the minister of foreign affairs of Kuwait.
Muhammad Shahrur
Muhammad Shahrour was a Syrian philosopher and author. He was an Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Damascus who wrote extensively about Islam. Shahrour was trained as an engineer in Syria, the former Soviet Union and Ireland. He referred to the book of the Islamic prophet Mohammad as "The Book", not the Quran; which casts him in direct contradiction with all other Islamic thinkers and traditional scholars. Yet similar to Quraniyoon Muslims, he did not consider Hadith as a divine source; however, he did not belong to the same school as Ahmed Subhy Mansour.
Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar
Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar was a Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP). He was an activist in the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a social movement campaigning for Pashtun human rights. He was a member of Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021.
Muhammad al-Jawad
Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jawwad was the ninth of the Twelve Imams and a descendant of Muhammad. He was also called Abu Ja'far, Ibn al-Ridha ; al-Jawwād and al-Taqī. His role is celebrated by the largest branch of Shia Islam, the Twelver or Athnā‘ashariyyah branch. According to Shiite accounts, he was poisoned by his wife and died at age 25, the shortest-lived of the Twelve.