Mohammad Akram Nadwi

Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Born c.1964 (aged 48)
Jaunpur, India
Alma mater Nadwatul Ulama
University of Lucknow
Oxford University
Occupation Research Fellow, Islamic scholar, author, teacher,
Religion Sunni Islam

Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c. 1964)[1] is an Islamic scholar from the Indian city of Jaunpur.

Education

Nadwi studied Islamic sciences at Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, an Islamic institution at Lucknow.

Writing and views

He has written over 25 books in Arabic in the fields of hadith, fiqh, Islamic biography, and Arabic grammar and syntax. Most recently he has completed a 53-volume biographical dictionary of the muhaddithat, the female scholars of hadith. Expecting to find a handful, after eight years he had discovered more than 8000, from as long ago as Umm al-Darda, the wife of one of the companions of the Prophet.[2][3]

Nadwi says he does not advocate unrestricted mixing between the sexes, but acknowledges that Muslim societies and families often limit the potential of their girls and women. He compares this limitation to the "live burial" (i.e. female infanticide) practised in pre-Islamic Arabia.[4] He attributes to the "decline of every aspect of Islam" an insecurity and weakness which leads to these restrictions on girls' education and women's rights. He works as an alim (religious scholar), so he reaches a different audience, and has a different impact, than Muslim feminists for instance.[5]

Books in English

Shaykh ’Abū Al-Hasan ‘Alī Nadwī – His Life & Works (Nadwi Foundation, 2013) The book covers all the various aspects of the life and works of ’Abū al-Hasan ‘Alī Nadwī including the background of Muslims in India and the rest of the Muslim world from a political, intellectual and educational perspective.[6]

Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam (Oxford: Interface Publications, 2007) A translation of the muqaddimah (preface) of his magnum opus above.[7][8]

Abu Hanifah: His Life, Legal Method and Legacy (Leicester: Kube, 2010)[9][10]

Al-Fiqh Al-Islami: According to the Hanafi Madhab: Purification, Prayers and Funerals v. 1 (London: Angelwing, 2007) An original compilation of the fiqh of Imam Abu Hanifah and his school. For the first time in English, the detailed rulings of this school are presented together with the evidence on which they are based; every argument is fully and carefully referenced. Nadwi takes current circumstances into consideration, making this book the first authentic, reliable and relevant account of Hanafi practice in English.[11]

Madrasah Life (London: Turath, 2007) The translation (from Urdu) of his memoir of a student’s day at Nadwat al-Ulama.[12]

The Garden of the Hadith Scholars (London: Turath, 2007) by Imam Abd Al-Aziz Ad-Dihlawi. Translated from Persian into Arabic and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi. Translated into English by Aisha Bewley.[13]

References

  1. ↑ New York Times Magazine, "A Secret History" by Carla Power. 25 February 2007.
  2. ↑ New York Times Magazine, "A Secret History" by Carla Power. 25 February 2007.
  3. ↑ Ato Quayson, Girish Daswani, A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, Chapter 29. ISBN 1118320646
  4. ↑ Karin Klenke, Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries, p 174. ISBN 0857245619
  5. ↑ New York Times Magazine, "A Secret History" by Carla Power. 25 Feb 2007.
  6. ↑ http://www.meccabooks.com/636-shaykh-abu-al-hasan-al-nadw-his-life-works-9780957402904.html
  7. ↑ http://www.wluml.org/node/3499
  8. ↑ http://www.meccabooks.com
  9. ↑ http://www.wluml.org/node/3499
  10. ↑ http://www.meccabooks.com/634-abu-hanifah-his-life-legal-method-and-legacy-9781847740175.html
  11. ↑ http://en.angelwingmedia.net/
  12. ↑ http://www.meccabooks.com/516-madrassah-life-9780954738051.html
  13. ↑ http://www.meccabooks.com/518-the-garden-of-hadith-scholars-bustan-al-muhaddithin-9780954738044.html

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