Religious Personages & Scholars, ZAC-ḤUS
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Saint Antonio Maria Zaccaria ; canonized May 27, 1897; feast day July 5) was an Italian priest, physician, and......
Abu al-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī was a Persian-born Arabic scholar whose chief work is Al-Kashshāf......
Zarathushtra was an Iranian religious reformer and prophet, traditionally regarded as the founder of Zoroastrianism.......
Zechariah was a Jewish prophet whose preachings are recorded in one of the shorter prophetical books in the Old......
Zedekiah was the king of Judah (597–587/586 bc) whose reign ended in the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and......
Zephaniah was an Israelite prophet, said to be the author of one of the shorter Old Testament prophetical books,......
St. Zephyrinus ; feast day August 26) was the pope from about 199 to 217. Of humble birth, he succeeded Pope St.......
Zerubbabel was the governor of Judaea under whom the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem took place. Of......
Zhiyi was a Buddhist monk, founder of the eclectic Tiantai (Japanese: Tendai) Buddhist sect, which was named for......
Euthymius Zigabenus was a Byzantine theologian, polemicist for Greek Orthodoxy, and biblical exegete whose encyclopaedic......
Nikolaus Ludwig, count von Zinzendorf was a religious and social reformer of the German Pietist movement who, as......
Zophar, in the Book of Job (2:11, 11:1, 20:1, 42:9), one of the three comforters of Job, a biblical archetype of......
Saint Zosimus ; feast day December 26) was the pope from March 417 to December 418. He was consecrated as Pope......
Huldrych Zwingli was the most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant Reformation. He founded the Swiss Reformed......
Ātmārāmjī , important Jain reformer and revivalist monk. He was born a Hindu but as a child came under the influence......
Śāntirakṣita was an Indian Buddhist teacher and saint who was instrumental in the development of Tibetan Buddhism.......
Ŭisang was a Buddhist monk and founder of the Hwaŏm (Chinese: Hua-yen) sect of Korean Buddhism. He devoted himself......
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī was the traditional founder of the Qādirīyah order of the mystical Ṣūfī branch of Islām.......
ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās was a Companion of the prophet Muḥammad, one of the greatest scholars of early Islām,......
Muḥammad ʿAbduh was a religious scholar, jurist, and liberal reformer, who led the late 19th-century movement in......
ʿAlī was the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, and fourth of the “rightly guided” (rāshidūn)......
ʿAlī al-Riḍā was the eighth imam of the Twelver Shīʿites, noted for his piety and learning. In 817, the caliph......
ʿUmar I was the second Muslim caliph (from 634), under whom Arab armies conquered Mesopotamia and Syria and began......
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān was the third caliph to rule after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. He centralized the administration......
al-Ḥallāj was a controversial writer and teacher of Islamic mysticism (Ṣūfism). Because he represented in his person......
Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī was one of the founders of the Druze religion. Almost nothing is known of his life before he entered......
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was a deeply pious and ascetic Muslim who was one of the most important religious figures in......
Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ was the leader, and believed to be the founder, of the Nizārī Ismāʿīliyyah, a Shiʿi Islamic sect......
al-Ḥillī was a theologian and expounder of doctrines of the Shīʿī, one of the two main systems of Islam, the other......
al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī was a hero in Shiʿi Islam, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fāṭimah and......