List of Famous people named Shaykh

Similar names: Shaikh. Here are some famous Shaykhs:

Shaykh Haydar

First Name Shaykh
Last Name Haydar
Born on November 30, 1458
Died on January 1, 1488 (aged 29)

Shaykh Haydar or Sheikh Haydar was the successor of his father as leader of the Safavid order from 1460-1488. Haydar maintained the policies and political ambitions initiated by his father. Under Sheikh Haydar, the order became crystallized as a political movement with an increasingly extremist heterodox Twelver Shi'i coloring and Haydar was viewed as a divine figure by his followers. Shaykh Haydar was responsible for instructing his followers to adopt the scarlet headgear of 12 gores commemorating The Twelve Imams, which led to them being designated by the Turkish term Qizilbash "Red Head".

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Shaykh Junayd

First Name Shaykh
Last Name Junayd
Born on January 1, 1429
Died on November 30, 1459 (aged 30)

Sheikh Junayd was the son of Shaykh Ibrahim, father of Shaykh Haydar and grandfather of the founder of Safavid dynasty, Shah Ismail I. After the death of his father, he assumed the leadership of the Safaviyya from 1447–1460.

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Shaykh Saduq

ابوجعفر محمد بن علی بن حسین بن موسی بن بابویه قمی
First Name Shaykh
Last Name Saduq
Born on January 1, 0918
Died on January 1, 0992 (aged 74)

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh or al-Shaykh al-Saduq was a Persian Shia Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih, forms part of The Four Books of the Shia Hadith collection.

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Shaykh Nasr al Omr

First Name Shaykh
Last Name Omr
Born on January 1, 1952 (age 72)
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Ahmad ibn Zayn al-Din al-Ahsa'i

First Name Ahmad
Last Name Al-Ahsa'i
Born on April 30, 1753
Died on January 1, 1826 (aged 72)

Shaykh Ahmad bin Zayn al-Dín bin Ibráhím al-Ahsá'í (1753–1826), commonly known as Shaykh Ahmad or al-Ahsá'í, was a prominent 19th-century Shia Muslim theologian and jurist, founded the influential Shaykhí school of Twelver Shiism, which attracted followers from throughout the Persian and Ottoman Empires.

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