Akram Nadwi

Akram Nadwi
Personal
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
ReligionIslam
NationalityBritish
JurisprudenceHanafi, Ijtihad
MovementDeobandi[1]
Notable work(s)Al-Muhaddithat
Alma materDarul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
University of Lucknow
OccupationAuthor, Professor, Islamic scholar, Former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
Muslim leader
TeacherAbul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi[2]
Influenced by
Websitewww.akramnadwi.com
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Shaykh Nadwi lecturing at the Markfield Institute

Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c. 1963)[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 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators.[8][9]

  1. ^ Razavian, Christopher Pooya (2018), Bano, Masooda (ed.), "Deoband's Conservatism: The Dār al-Iftā', Nadwatul Ulamā and Muftī Muhammad Taqi Usmani", Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 1: Evolving Debates in Muslim Majority Countries, Edinburgh University Press, p. 259, ISBN 978-1-4744-3324-2, retrieved 23 December 2023
  2. ^ Timol, Riyaz. "Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadwi: His Life & Works." (2014): 538-540.
  3. ^ Power, Carla (25 February 2007). "A Secret History". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  4. ^ Al-Salam Institute
  5. ^ "College Dean | Cambridge Islamic College". www.cambridgeislamiccollege.org. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Dr. Akram Nadwi | Al-Salam Institute". alsalam.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Personnel | Markfield Institute of Higher Education". www.mihe.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  8. ^ Khan, Rushda Fathima (18 March 2021). "Rediscovering The Role Of Muslim Women Scholars In Islamic History: 43 Volume Work With 10,000 Biographies Published". The Cognate. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  9. ^ Desk, The Cognate News (12 January 2023). "Mohammad Akram Nadwi - Biography, Age, Facts, Books". The Cognate. Retrieved 20 November 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)