Author, Professor, Islamic scholar, Former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
Religion
Islam
Jurisprudence
Hanafi, Ijtihad
Movement
Deobandi[1]
Teacher
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi[2]
Website
Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c.)[3] is a British Islamic scholar and the Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute,[4] and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.[5][6][7] He is the author of the 43 volume biographical dictionary called Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa (Biographical Dictionary of Women Narrators of Hadith), which chronicles the lives of 10, female hadith scholars and narrators.[8][9]
Education
Nadwi was educated at the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India.[10]
Writings
He has written over 60 books in Arabic, English and Urdu in the fields of hadith, fiqh, biography, Arabic grammar and syntax. In , his volume biographical dictionary of the muhaddithat, the female scholars and narrators of hadith was published by Dar al-Minhaj (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).
Nadwi is the subject of the book If The Oceans Were Ink by journalist Carla Power. Power spent a year studying Islam and the Qur'an with Nadwi. [11]
Publications
English
Madrasah Life A student’s day at Nadwat al-‘Ulamā’ (Turath Publishing London, )
Al-Fiqh Al-Islāmī According to the Hanafi MadhabRites of Purification, Prayers and Funerals Vol 1 (Angelwing Media London, , )
Al-Muhaddithat: the woman scholars in Islam (Interface Publications Oxford , )
The Garden of The Ḥadīth Scholars Bustān al-Muḥaddithin - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi from Persian to Arabic (Turath Publishing London , )
Remembering Beautiful Days In Jerusalem (Al Buruj Press London, )
Foundation To Ḥadīh Science A primer on understanding & Studying Hadith - Translated and edited by Dr. Abu Zayd. (Quran Literacy Press New Jersey , Al-Salam Institute Press )
Bangabandhu memorial lecture The Hadith: Preservation and Development (Bangabandhu Research Centre for Islam and Interreligious Dialogue Chittagong,
An excellent introduction to ṣaḥīḥ al-bukhārī and its hidden gems and methodologies - Translated and edited by Shaykh Umer Khan (United States of America )
Journey to America Vol 1 - Translated by Shaykh Umer Khan (United States of America )
Urdu
‘Iraq aur Sa‘ūdī ‘Arab (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, )
‘Iraq aur Īrān (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, )
‘Iraq ki jāriḣiyyat aur tawsī‘ pasandi (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, )
Armughāne farang peghām briṭāniya ke musalmāno ke nām (Allamah Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Academy London, )
Armughāne ḥajj ḥadīth ke ek tālibe ‘ilm ka safarnāmah (Anjuman khuddam al-Islam Lahore, )
Nadwe ka ek din (Majlis Nashriyyat Islam Karachi, , Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, , reprint )
Safarnāmah Hind (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, )
Maghribī UP ka ek yādgār safar (Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr Saharanpur, )
Armughāne ḥajj ḥadith ke ek tālibe ilm ka safarnāmah (Maktaba Ahsan Lucknow, )
Fikr Yunus (Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr Saharanpur, , Majlis nashriyyat islam Karachi, )
Ek haftah Hindustān mein (Maktabah Ihsan Lucknow, )
Maqāme ṣaḥāba ishkālāt wa jawābāt (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, )
Dhikr nadwah (Mahad Imam Hasan ul Banna Bhatkal, )
Muḥaddithāt ‘ilm ḥādīth ke irtiqā' me khawātīn ki khidmat (Hidayat publishers and distributors New Delhi, )
Umm al-mu'minīn ḥaḍrat ‘aishah ṣiddīqa raḍiya allah ‘anha ki ‘umr biwaqt rukhṣati (Majlis tahqiqat wa nashriyat islam Lucknow, , Majlis nashriyyat islam Karachi, , Maktaba khatm nubuwwah Gujranwala, )
Iṣlāḥ kī tadbīr ( Madhya Pradesh, )
Arabic
Al-tarbiyatu wa al-mujtama‘ - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Al-dar al-shamiyyah Beirut, Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Shaykh al-islām ibn taymiyyah wa ta’thīrhi fī āsiya al-janūbiyah - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford, )
Uṣūl al-shāshī mukhtaṣar fī uṣūl al-fiqh al-islāmi - Edited and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Nadwat al-‘ulama Lucknow, , Dar al-gharb al-islami Beirut, , Madhya Pradesh, )
Al-sayyid sulaymān al-nadwī amīru ‘ulamā al-hind fī ‘asrihi wa shaykh al-nadwiyyīn (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Shiblī al-nu‘mānī ‘allāmat al-hind al-adīb wa al-mu’arrikh al-nāqid al-arīb (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Kifāyat al-rāwī ‘an al-‘allāmat al-shaykh Yusuf al-Qardāwī (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Bughyat al-matābi‘ li asānīd al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad al-rabi‘ (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, )
Bustān al-muḥaddithīn -Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-gharb al-islami Beirut, , Dar al-kutub Peshawar nd)
Al-’iqd al-lujayni fi asānīd al-shaykh Salmān al-Ḥusaynī (Dar al-gharb al-Islami, Dar al-sunnah al-Hind, nd)
Mabadi’ al-naḥw. (Dar al-tarbiyah, Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, nd. Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Mabadi’ al-taṣrīf (Dar al-tarbiyah, Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Abu al-ḥasan al-nadwī al-‘ālim al-murabbi wa al-dā‘iyat al-ḥakīm (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Ayyāmun fī bilād al-shām (Dar al-tarbiyah Damascus, Complete edition Dar al-hadith al-kattaniya Tangier, )
Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-fiqh (Dar al-tarbiyah, Al-maktabat al-nadwiyyah Lucknow, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Mabadi’ fī uṣūl al-ḥadīth wa al-isnād (Dar al-tarbiyah, Al-Salam Institute Press London, Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, nd)
Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-tafsīr (Dar al-tarbiyah, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Riḥlat shiblī al-nu‘mānī ila al-qusṭanṭīniyyah wa bayrūt wa al-quds wa al-qāhirah - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Ayyāmun zāhiratun fī miṣr wa al-qāhirah (Dar al-Qalam Damascus )
Al-shaykh al-muḥaddith ‘abd al-haqq al-dahlawiyyu ḥayātuhu wa āthāruh -Translated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Al-farāid fī ‘awālī al-asānīdi wa ghawālī al-fawāid (Thabatu al-shaykh yūnus jaunfūrī) (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, )
Tārīkhu ard al-qur’ān - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, )
Al-Dhikr al-jamīl li’ayyāmin fī al-quds wa al-khalīl (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, Markaz al-warraq Kuwait )
Man ‘allamanī? (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, , Maktabat al-manhal al-safi, )
Riḥlat al-andalus (Dar al muqtabas Damascus, )
Juz’un fī al-aḥādīth al-‘awālī al-thumāniyyāt wa al-tusā‘iyyāt (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, )
Riḥlatu Amrīkā (Wizarat al-awqafi wa al-shu’un al-Islamiyyah, )
Mabadi’ al-manṭiq (Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Mabadi’ al-balāghah (Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad wāḑiḥ rashīd al-ḥasanī al-nadwī ḥayātuhu wa fikruhu wa a‘maluhu (Maktabat salma al-thaqafiyyah Tetouan, )
Al-imām ibn taymiyyah al-ḥarrānī mujaddidan liqarnih - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, )
Al-iḥkām lilmujma‘ ‘alayhi min aḥādīth al-iḥkām (Dar al-samman Istanbul, )
Al-kanz al-farīd fi tarjamat al-‘allāmat muḥammad mutī‘al-ḥāfiẓ wa a‘malihi wa mā lahu min al-ittiṣālāti wa al-asānīd (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, )
Al-Tahrīr al-sadīd limā li al-shaykh muḥammad ma‘sūd al-‘azīzī al-nadwī min ittiṣālāt wa asānīd (Markaz ihya al-fikr al-islami Saharanpur, )
Fatāwā wa abḥāth fiqhiyyah mu‘āṣirah (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Al-mufaṣṣal fī al-sīrah al-nabawiyyah (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Riḥlat al-hind (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, )
Al-mu‘tamad fī uṣūl al-fatwā (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Riḥlat uzbikistān (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, )
Ṡafwat al-‘aqāid (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, Al-Salam Institute Press London, )
Iskāt al-mu‘tadī ‘alā inṣāt al-muqtadī - edited and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, )
Bosnian
Muhaddise učenjakinje u islamu - Translated by Naida Hota-Muminović and Nermina Baljević (Centar za napredne studije, )
Malayalam
Muhaddithat, Malayalam- Translated by Muhammad Anees (Book plus publishers Malappuram, )
Indonesian
Al-Muhadditsat Ulama perempuan dalam bidang hadits - Translated by Fahmy Yamani (Gema Insani Jakarta, )
References
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^Timol, Riyaz. "Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadwi: His Life & Works." ():
^Power, Carla (25 February ). "A Secret History". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 8 September
^Al-Salam Institute
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