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Founding Educators and Pedagogues

    
    Educators and Pedagogues
    



    
        Name
        Arabic Name
        Death Date
        Major Contributions
    

        Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib
        سعيد بن المسيب
        d. 94/713
        Head of the *Fuqahāʾ al-Sabʿa*; structured teaching circles in Madina
    

        ʿĀmir al-Shaʿbī
        عامر الشعبي
        d. 103/721
        Popular Iraqi educator; known for wit and pedagogical clarity
    

        Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān
        طاووس بن كيسان
        d. 106/724
        Yemeni ascetic and instructor; emphasized learning with adab
    

        ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ
        عطاء بن أبي رباح
        d. 114/732
        Mufti of Mecca; led structured legal circles and emphasized humility
    

        Nāfiʿ (mawlā of Ibn ʿUmar)
        نافع مولى ابن عمر
        d. 117/735
        Instructor of Mālik; formalized fiqh transmission in Madina
    

        al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
        الحسن البصري
        d. 110/728
        Preacher and ethical guide; pedagogical sermons shaped student formation
    

        Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī
        ابن شهاب الزهري
        d. 124/742
        Institutionalized ḥadīth teaching under Umayyads
    

        Maymūn b. Mahrān
        ميمون بن مهران
        d. 117/735
        Instructor of rulers and public; promoted ethical and practical education
    

        al-Qudāʿī
        القضاعي
        d. 454/1062
        Judge, historian, and educator; authored ethical manuals for learners
    

        al-Ghazālī
        الغزالي
        d. 505/1111
        Reviver of Islamic sciences; wrote *Iḥyāʾ*; taught at Niẓāmiyya of Baghdad
    

        al-Niẓām al-Mulk
        نظام الملك
        d. 485/1092
        Founded Niẓāmiyya madrasas; institutional architect of Sunni education
    

        al-Zarnūjī
        الزرنوجي
        d. 7th/13th c.
        Author of *Taʿlīm al-mutaʿallim*; early pedagogy manual in Islamic education
    

        Ibn Jamāʿa
        ابن جماعة
        d. 733/1333
        Wrote *Tadhkirat al-sāmiʿ* on ethics of teaching and learning
    

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