Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed bin Muhammad, more commonly known as Sheikh Ishaaq or Sheikh Isaaq was a scholar that crossed the sea from Arabia to the Horn of Africa and the Sayyid forefather of the Isaaq Somali clan-family in the Horn of Africa, whose traditional territory is wide and densely populated.
Tomb of Sheikh Ishaaq in Maydh, Sanaag, Somaliland
Sheikh is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder".
Kurdish sheikhs, 1895
Mustafa Sabri Effendi, the second last Shaykh al-Islām (ultimate authority on religious affairs) of the Ottoman Empire and Caliphate, 1919-1920
Sheikh Juma Al Maktoum (left) and Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum Al Maktoum (right) of the Maktoum family
Pakistani Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani, a prominent Sunni scholar