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Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born ) is a British
Al-Salam Institute
Cambridge Islamic College
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadwi, Akram Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam British Muslims People from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh Living people Persian–Arabic translators Islam and women 21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam English Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 1964 births Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama alumni 21st-century Indian translators British Islamic studies scholars Deobandis Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom 21st-century Indian Muslims
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of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education
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. 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 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators.
Education
Nadwi was educated at theDarul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama (translated as, House of Knowledge and Assembly of Scholars University) is an Islamic seminary in Lucknow, India. It was established by the Nadwatul Ulama, a council of Muslim scholars, on 26 September 1898.
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in Lucknow, India.
Writings
He has written over 60 books in Arabic, English and Urdu in the fields ofhadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
, fiqh
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, biography, Arabic grammar
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and syntax. In 2021, his 43-volume biographical dictionary
A biographical dictionary is a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in ''Who's Who'', or deceased people onl ...
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 2015 book ''If The Oceans Were Ink'' by journalist Carla Power
Carla Power is an American author.
Early life and education
As a child Power lived in St. Louis, Missouri
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. Power spent a year studying Islam and the Qur'an with Nadwi.
Publications
English
# ''Madrasah Life A student’s day at Nadwat al-‘Ulamā’'' (Turath Publishing London, 2007) # ''Al-Fiqh Al-Islāmī According to the Hanafi Madhab'' ''Rites of Purification, Prayers and Funerals'' Vol 1 (Angelwing Media London, 2007, 2012) # ''Al-Muhaddithat: the woman scholars in Islam'' (Interface Publications Oxford 2007, 2013) # ''The Garden of The Ḥadīth Scholars Bustān al-Muḥaddithin'' - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi from Persian to Arabic (Turath Publishing London 2007, 2018) # ''Abū Ḥanīfah His Life, Legal Method & Legacy.'' (Kube Publishing Ltd Leicester, Interface Publications Ltd Oxford, 2010) # ''Al-Fiqh Al-Islāmī According to the Hanafi Madhab Rites of Zakah, Fasting and Hajj'' Vol 2 (Angelwing Media London, 2012) # ''Shaykh ‘Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī Nadwī His Life & Works'' (Nadwi Foundation West Yorkshire, 2013) # ''Ibn Ḥazm on the lawfulness of women attending prayers in the mosque'' (Interface Publications Ltd Oxford, Cambridge Islamic College Cambridge 2015, 2018) # ''Al-Muḥaddithāt women scholars of hadith'' (Ibn Haldun University Press Istanbul, 2019) # ''Journey to Andalus'' - Translated and edited by Dr. Abu Zayd. (Angelwing Media London, 2019) # ''Lessons Learned Treasures from Nadwah's Sages'' (Quran Literacy Press Somerset, 2019) # ''Remembering Beautiful Days In Jerusalem'' (Al Buruj Press London, 2020) # ''Foundation To Ḥadīh Science A primer on understanding & Studying Hadith'' - Translated and edited by Dr. Abu Zayd. (Quran Literacy Press New Jersey 2021, Al-Salam Institute Press 2021) # ''Bangabandhu memorial lecture The Hadith: Preservation and Development'' (Bangabandhu Research Centre for Islam and Interreligious Dialogue Chittagong, 2023 # ''An excellent introduction to ṣaḥīḥ al-bukhārī and its hidden gems and methodologies'' - Translated and edited by Shaykh Umer Khan (United States of America 2024) # ''Journey to America'' Vol 1 - Translated by Shaykh Umer Khan (United States of America 2024) # ''Riḥlat al-Ḥijāz'' - Translated by Dilwar Ali (Gripper Mark Publication Dhaka, 2025)Urdu
# ''‘Iraq aur Sa‘ūdī ‘Arab'' (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, 1990) # ''‘Iraq aur Īrān'' (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, 1990) # ''‘Iraq ki jāriḣiyyat aur tawsī‘ pasandi'' (Muslim Intellectual Forum Lucknow, 1990) # ''Armughāne farang peghām briṭāniya ke musalmāno ke nām'' (Allamah Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Academy London, 2004) # ''Armughāne ḥajj ḥadīth ke ek tālibe ‘ilm ka safarnāmah'' (Anjuman khuddam al-Islam Lahore, 2004) # ''Nadwe ka ek din'' (Majlis Nashriyyat Islam Karachi, 2006, Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, 2007, reprint 2012) # ''Safarnāmah Hind'' (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, 2018) # ''Maghribī UP ka ek yādgār safar'' (Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr Saharanpur, 2018) # ''Armughāne ḥajj ḥadith ke ek tālibe ilm ka safarnāmah'' (Maktaba Ahsan Lucknow, 2018) # ''Fikr Yunus'' (Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr Saharanpur, 2019, Majlis nashriyyat islam Karachi, 2023) # ''Ek haftah Hindustān mein'' (Maktabah Ihsan Lucknow, 2019) # ''Maqāme ṣaḥāba ishkālāt wa jawābāt'' (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, 2021) # ''Dhikr nadwah'' (Mahad Imam Hasan ul Banna Bhatkal, 2022) # ''Muḥaddithāt ‘ilm ḥādīth ke irtiqā' me khawātīn ki khidmat'' (Hidayat publishers and distributors New Delhi, 2022) # ''Umm al-mu'minīn ḥaḍrat ‘aishah ṣiddīqa raḍiya allah ‘anha ki ‘umr biwaqt rukhṣati'' (Majlis tahqiqat wa nashriyat islam Lucknow, 2022, Majlis nashriyyat islam Karachi, 2022, Maktaba khatm nubuwwah Gujranwala, 2023) # ''Iṣlāḥ kī tadbīr'' (QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Taalib Ilmi'' (QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Watn ke Phere'' (QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # Gaun Ka Larka (QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2025)Arabic
# ''Al-tarbiyatu wa al-mujtama‘'' - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Al-dar al-shamiyyah Beirut, Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 1991) # ''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, 1992) # ''Nafaḥāt al-hind wa al-yaman bi’asānīd al-shaykh abī al-ḥasan'' (Maktabat al-imam al-shafi‘i Riyadh,1998 # ''Uṣūl al-shāshī mukhtaṣar fī uṣūl al-fiqh al-islāmi'' - Edited and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. (Nadwat al-‘ulama Lucknow, 1998, Dar al-gharb al-islami Beirut, 2000, QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Al-sayyid sulaymān al-nadwī amīru ‘ulamā al-hind fī ‘asrihi wa shaykh al-nadwiyyīn'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2001) # ''Shiblī al-nu‘mānī ‘allāmat al-hind al-adīb wa al-mu’arrikh al-nāqid al-arīb'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2001) # ''Kifāyat al-rāwī ‘an al-‘allāmat al-shaykh Yusuf al-Qardāwī'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2001) # ''Bughyat al-matābi‘ li asānīd al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad al-rabi‘'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2001. Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2022) # ''Bustān al-muḥaddithīn'' -Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-gharb al-islami Beirut, 2002, Dar al-kutub Peshawar nd) # ''Al-’iqd al-lujayni fi asānīd al-shaykh Salmān al-Ḥusaynī'' (Dar al-gharb al-Islami, 2004. Dar al-sunnah al-Hind, nd) # ''Mabadi’ al-naḥw.'' (Dar al-tarbiyah, 2006. Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, nd. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''Mabadi’ al-taṣrīf'' (Dar al-tarbiyah, 2006. Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, 2019. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''Abu al-ḥasan al-nadwī al-‘ālim al-murabbi wa al-dā‘iyat al-ḥakīm'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2006) # ''Ayyāmun fī bilād al-shām'' (Dar al-tarbiyah Damascus, 2007. Complete edition Dar al-hadith al-kattaniya Tangier, 2021) # ''Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-fiqh'' (Dar al-tarbiyah, 2007. Al-maktabat al-nadwiyyah Lucknow, 2018. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''Mabadi’ fī uṣūl al-ḥadīth wa al-isnād'' (Dar al-tarbiyah, 2007. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019. Maktabat Ihsan Lucknow, nd) # ''Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-tafsīr'' (Dar al-tarbiyah, 2007. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''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, 2011) # ''Ayyāmun zāhiratun fī miṣr wa al-qāhirah'' (Dar al-Qalam Damascus 2011) # ''Al-shaykh al-muḥaddith ‘abd al-haqq al-dahlawiyyu'' ḥ''ayātuhu wa āthāruh'' -Translated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2013) # ''Al-farāid fī ‘awālī al-asānīdi wa ghawālī al-fawāid (Thabatu al-shaykh yūnus jaunfūrī)'' (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, 2015) # ''Tārīkhu ard al-qur’ān'' - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-Qalam Damascus, 2016) # ''Al-Dhikr al-jamīl li’ayyāmin fī al-quds wa al-khalīl'' (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, Markaz al-warraq Kuwait 2018) # ''Man ‘allamanī?'' (Dar al-Rashid Lucknow, 2018, Maktabat al-manhal al-safi, 2019) # ''Riḥlat al-andalus'' (Dar al muqtabas Damascus, 2018) # ''Juz’un fī al-aḥādīth al-‘awālī al-thumāniyyāt wa al-tusā‘iyyāt'' (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, 2018) # ''Riḥlatu Amrīkā'' (Wizarat al-awqafi wa al-shu’un al-Islamiyyah, 2019) # ''Mabadi’ al-manṭiq'' (Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''Mabadi’ al-balāghah'' (Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2019) # ''Al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad wāḑiḥ rashīd al-ḥasanī al-nadwī ḥayātuhu wa fikruhu wa a‘maluhu'' (Maktabat salma al-thaqafiyyah Tetouan, 2019) # ''Al-imām ibn taymiyyah al-ḥarrānī mujaddidan liqarnih'' - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, 2019) # ''Al-iḥkām lilmujma‘ ‘alayhi min aḥādīth al-iḥkām'' (Dar al-samman Istanbul, 2019) # ''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, 2019) # ''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, 2020) # ''Al-durr al-farīd fī ikhtiṣār ‘awālī al-asānīd'' (Markaz ihya al-fikr al-islami Saharanpur, 2020) # ''Qurrat al-‘ayn fī ḥajj al-bayti wa ziyārat al-ḥaramayn'' (Al-firdaws Alexandria, 2021) # ''Tamhīd ‘ilm al-ḥadīth'' (Dar al-samman Istanbul, 2021) # ''Al-wafā’u bi asmā al-nisāi mawsu‘atu tarājimi a‘lām al-nisāi fī al-ḥadīth al-nabawiyy al-sharīf'' ''43 vols'' (Dar al-minhaj Jeddah, 2021) # ''Ḥikmat al-ṣalāt majmū‘at al-ifādāt ‘an al-ṣalāt li al-imām ‘abd al-ḥamīd al-farāhī'' (Dar Ammar, Amman, 2021) Compiled and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi # ''Madkhal rāi‘ ila ṣaḥīḥ al-bukhārī wa mā fīhi min asrāri wa ṣanāi‘'' (Dar Ammar Amman, 2021. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2021. QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Riḥlat turkiyā'' (Dar al-asalah Istanbul, 2021) # ''Naẓarāt īmāniyya majmū‘at maqālāt tata‘allaq bi uṣūl al-dīn mustanidat ila al-fiṭrat wa al-‘aql wa al-waḥyi'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2022. QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Imlāu al-khāṭir majmū‘at maqālāt mutafarriqa nushirat fī mawāqi‘ al-tawāsul al-ijtimā‘I'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2022. QuranWaHadith.com Madhya Pradesh, 2024) # ''Riḥlat al-‘umrah riḥlat sanat 1441h, wa riḥlat sanat 1443h, (''Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2022) # ''Tārīkh nadwat al-‘ulamā' 2 vols.'' (Dar al-bashaer Beirut, 2022) # ''Al-jāmi‘ al-mu‘īn fī ṭabaqāt al-shuyukh al-mutqinīn wa al-mujīzīn al-musnidīn 7 vols'' (Dar al-kotob al-ilmiyah Beirut, 2023) # ''Ittiḥāf al-kibār bi asānīd al-shaykh al-muḥaddith abī ‘ammār thabat al-rāshidī'' (Maktabat khatm al-nubuwwah Gujranwala, 2023) # ''Fatāwā wa abḥāth fiqhiyyah mu‘āṣirah'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2024) # ''Al-mufaṣṣal fī al-sīrah al-nabawiyyah'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2024) # ''Riḥlat al-hind'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024) # ''Al-mu‘tamad fī uṣūl al-fatwā'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2024) # ''Riḥlat uzbikistān'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024) # ''Ṡafwat al-‘aqāid'' (Dar al-muqtabas Beirut, 2024. Al-Salam Institute Press London, 2024) # ''Iskāt al-mu‘tadī ‘alā inṣāt al-muqtadī'' - edited and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi (Dar al-bashair al-islamiyyah Beirut, 2024)Bosnian
# ''Muhaddise učenjakinje u islamu'' - Translated by Naida Hota-Muminović and Nermina Baljević (Centar za napredne studije, 2018)Malayalam
# Muhaddithat, Malayalam- Translated by Muhammad Anees (Book plus publishers Malappuram, 2021)Indonesian
# ''Al-Muhadditsat Ulama perempuan dalam bidang hadits -'' Translated by Fahmy Yamani (Gema Insani Jakarta, 2022)Bangla
Two different translations: # ''Muhaddithat'', Bangla (2022) # ''Muhaddithat'', Bangla (2022)References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nadwi, Akram Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam British Muslims People from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh Living people Persian–Arabic translators Islam and women 21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam English Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam 1964 births Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama alumni 21st-century Indian translators British Islamic studies scholars Deobandis Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom 21st-century Indian Muslims