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{{Short description|British Islamic scholar (born 1963)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox religious biography
| religion = [[Islam]]
| image = Dr Akram Nadwi.jpg
| caption =
| occupation = Author, Professor, Islamic scholar, Former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}}
| birth_place = [[Jamdahan Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh|Jaunpur]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| alma_mater = [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]]<br/>[[University of Lucknow]]
| teacher = [[Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi]]<ref>Timol, Riyaz. "Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Ali Nadwi: His Life & Works." (2014): 538-540.</ref>
| students = [[Mohammed Hijab]]
| influences = [[Abu Hanifa]], [[Ibn Hazm]], [[Ibn Taymiyyah]], [[Shah Waliullah]], [[Hamiduddin Farahi]], [[Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi]]
| jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]], [[Ijtihad]]
| movement = [[Nadwi]]<ref name="carla"/>-[[Deobandi movement|Deobandi]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Razavian |first=Christopher Pooya |title=Deoband's Conservatism: The Dār al-Iftā', Nadwatul Ulamā and Muftī Muhammad Taqi Usmani |date=2018 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/modern-islamic-authority-and-social-change-volume-1/deobands-conservatism-the-dar-alifta-nadwatul-ulama-and-mufti-muhammad-taqi-usmani/FB564A11A892ADC865A2295BB727694B |work=Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 1: Evolving Debates in Muslim Majority Countries |pages=259 |editor-last=Bano |editor-first=Masooda |access-date=23 December 2023 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-4744-3324-2}}</ref>
| notable works = ''[[Al-Muhaddithat]]''
| website = {{URL|https://www.akramnadwi.com/}}
}}
[[File:Shaykh Akram talk Markfield 2017.jpg|thumb|261x261px|Shaykh Nadwi lecturing at the [[Markfield Institute of Higher Education|Markfield Institute]]]]
'''Mohammad Akram Nadwi''' (born {{c.|1963}})<ref name=Power>{{cite news | first=Carla | last=Power | author-link=Carla Power | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25wwlnEssay.t.html | title=A Secret History | newspaper=New York Times Magazine | date=25 February 2007 | accessdate=8 September 2018}}</ref> is a British [[List of Islamic studies scholars|Islamic scholar]] and the [[Dean (education)|Dean]] of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute,<ref>[https://alsalam.ac.uk Al-Salam Institute]</ref> and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the [[Markfield Institute of Higher Education]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridgeislamiccollege.org/about/college-dean/|title=College Dean {{!}} Cambridge Islamic College|website=www.cambridgeislamiccollege.org|language=en-US|access-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809160717/http://www.cambridgeislamiccollege.org/about/college-dean/|archive-date=9 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alsalam.ac.uk/personnel/dr-akram-nadwi|title=Dr. Akram Nadwi {{!}} Al-Salam Institute|website=alsalam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=1 May 2017}}{{Dead link|date=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mihe.ac.uk/personnel/honorary-visiting-fellows|title=Personnel {{!}} Markfield Institute of Higher Education|website=www.mihe.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=6 May 2017|archive-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811182928/https://www.mihe.ac.uk/personnel/honorary-visiting-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Khan|first=Rushda Fathima|date=18 March 2021|title=Rediscovering The Role Of Muslim Women Scholars In Islamic History: 43 Volume Work With 10,000 Biographies Published|url=https://thecognate.com/rediscovering-the-role-of-muslim-women-scholars-in-islamic-history-43-volume-work-with-10000-biographies-published/|access-date=19 March 2021|website=The Cognate|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=The Cognate News |date=12 January 2023 |title=Mohammad Akram Nadwi - Biography, Age, Facts, Books |url=https://thecognate.com/mohammad-akram-nadwi/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |website=The Cognate |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Education==
Nadwi was educated at the [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]] in Lucknow, India.<ref name="carla">{{Cite news|url=http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/projects/koran-carla-power/|title=What the Koran really says about women|last=Power|first=Carla|date=15 September 2015|access-date=22 April 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

==Writings==
He has written over 60 books in Arabic, English and Urdu in the fields of [[hadith]], [[fiqh]], biography, [[Arabic grammar]] and [[syntax]]. In 2021, his 43-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 2015 book ''If The Oceans Were Ink'' by journalist [[Carla Power]]. Power spent a year studying Islam and the Qur'an with Nadwi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Author of "If the Oceans Were Ink" {{!}} Carla Power|url=https://www.carlapower.com/|access-date=22 March 2021|language=en-US}}</ref>

==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)

=== Malay ===

# Muhaddisat Wanita Periwayat Hadis - Translated by Faiq Sharin and Syazani Satri (Siri Pencerahan Selangor, 2025)

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite thesis |last=Rahman |first=Obaidur |title=Musahamatu Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Fi Nashril Lughatil Arabiati Wal Adabil Islami Wa Dauruha Fi Majalis Sahafati Wal Elam |degree=PhD |publisher=[[University of Calcutta]] |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/314806 |language=ar |pages=292–293 |year=2017 |location=India |hdl=10603/314806 |access-date=11 November 2024 |archive-date=16 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616040516/https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/314806 |url-status=live }}

==External links==
* [http://www.alsalam.ac.uk Al-Salam Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028004617/https://alsalam.ac.uk/ |date=28 October 2021 }}
* [http://www.cambridgeislamiccollege.org Cambridge Islamic College]

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Akram Nadwi - Revision history

HungHay8926976 at 13:22, 2 April 2026