Akram Nadwi


Mohammad Akram Nadwi is a British List of [Islamic studies scholars|Islamic scholar] and the Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education. He is the author of the 43 volume biographical dictionary called Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, which chronicles the lives of 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators.

Education

Nadwi was educated at the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India.

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.
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.

Publications

English

  1. Madrasah Life A student’s day at Nadwat al-‘Ulamā’
  2. Al-Fiqh Al-Islāmī According to the Hanafi Madhab ''Rites of Purification, Prayers and Funerals Vol 1
  3. Al-Muhaddithat: the woman scholars in Islam
  4. The Garden of The Ḥadīth Scholars Bustān al-Muḥaddithin - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi from Persian to Arabic
  5. Abū Ḥanīfah His Life, Legal Method & Legacy.
  6. Al-Fiqh Al-Islāmī According to the Hanafi Madhab Rites of Zakah, Fasting and Hajj Vol 2
  7. Shaykh ‘Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī Nadwī His Life & Works
  8. Ibn Ḥazm on the lawfulness of women attending prayers in the mosque
  9. Al-Muḥaddithāt women scholars of hadith
  10. Journey to Andalus - Translated and edited by Dr. Abu Zayd.
  11. Lessons Learned Treasures from Nadwah's Sages
  12. Remembering Beautiful Days In Jerusalem
  13. Foundation To Ḥadīh Science A primer on understanding & Studying Hadith - Translated and edited by Dr. Abu Zayd.
  14. Bangabandhu memorial lecture The Hadith: Preservation and Development
  15. Journey to America Vol 1 - Translated by Shaykh Umer Khan
  16. Riḥlat al-Ḥijāz'' - Translated by Dilwar Ali

Urdu

  1. ‘Iraq aur Sa‘ūdī ‘Arab
  2. ‘Iraq aur Īrān
  3. ‘Iraq ki jāriḣiyyat aur tawsī‘ pasandi
  4. Armughāne farang peghām briṭāniya ke musalmāno ke nām
  5. Armughāne ḥajj ḥadīth ke ek tālibe ‘ilm ka safarnāmah
  6. Nadwe ka ek din
  7. Safarnāmah Hind
  8. Maghribī UP ka ek yādgār safar
  9. Armughāne ḥajj ḥadith ke ek tālibe ilm ka safarnāmah
  10. Fikr Yunus
  11. Ek haftah Hindustān mein
  12. Maqāme ṣaḥāba ishkālāt wa jawābāt
  13. Dhikr nadwah
  14. Muḥaddithāt ‘ilm ḥādīth ke irtiqā' me khawātīn ki khidmat
  15. Umm al-mu'minīn ḥaḍrat ‘aishah ṣiddīqa raḍiya allah ‘anha ki ‘umr biwaqt rukhṣati
  16. Iṣlāḥ kī tadbīr
  17. Taalib Ilmi
  18. Watn ke Phere
  19. Gaun Ka Larka

Arabic

  1. Al-tarbiyatu wa al-mujtama‘ - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi.
  2. Shaykh al-islām ibn taymiyyah wa ta’thīrhi fī āsiya al-janūbiyah - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi.
  3. Nafaḥāt al-hind wa al-yaman bi’asānīd al-shaykh abī al-ḥasan
  4. Al-sayyid sulaymān al-nadwī amīru ‘ulamā al-hind fī ‘asrihi wa shaykh al-nadwiyyīn
  5. Shiblī al-nu‘mānī ‘allāmat al-hind al-adīb wa al-mu’arrikh al-nāqid al-arīb
  6. Kifāyat al-rāwī ‘an al-‘allāmat al-shaykh Yusuf al-Qardāwī
  7. Bughyat al-matābi‘ li asānīd al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad al-rabi‘
  8. Bustān al-muḥaddithīn -Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
  9. Al-’iqd al-lujayni fi asānīd al-shaykh Salmān al-Ḥusaynī
  10. Mabadi’ al-naḥw.
  11. Mabadi’ al-taṣrīf
  12. Abu al-ḥasan al-nadwī al-‘ālim al-murabbi wa al-dā‘iyat al-ḥakīm
  13. Ayyāmun fī bilād al-shām
  14. Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-fiqh
  15. Mabadi’ fī uṣūl al-ḥadīth wa al-isnād
  16. Mabadi’ fī ‘Ilm uṣūl al-tafsīr
  17. Riḥlat shiblī al-nu‘mānī ila al-qusṭanṭīniyyah wa bayrūt wa al-quds wa al-qāhirah - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi.
  18. Ayyāmun zāhiratun fī miṣr wa al-qāhirah
  19. Al-shaykh al-muḥaddith ‘abd al-haqq al-dahlawiyyu ḥayātuhu wa āthāruh -Translated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
  20. Al-farāid fī ‘awālī al-asānīdi wa ghawālī al-fawāid
  21. Tārīkhu ard al-qur’ān - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
  22. Al-Dhikr al-jamīl li’ayyāmin fī al-quds wa al-khalīl
  23. Man ‘allamanī?
  24. Riḥlat al-andalus
  25. Juz’un fī al-aḥādīth al-‘awālī al-thumāniyyāt wa al-tusā‘iyyāt
  26. Riḥlatu Amrīkā
  27. Mabadi’ al-manṭiq
  28. Mabadi’ al-balāghah
  29. Al-‘allāmat al-sharīf muḥammad wāḑiḥ rashīd al-ḥasanī al-nadwī ḥayātuhu wa fikruhu wa a‘maluhu
  30. Al-imām ibn taymiyyah al-ḥarrānī mujaddidan liqarnih - Translated and edited by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
  31. Al-iḥkām lilmujma‘ ‘alayhi min aḥādīth al-iḥkām
  32. Al-kanz al-farīd fi tarjamat al-‘allāmat muḥammad mutī‘al-ḥāfiẓ wa a‘malihi wa mā lahu min al-ittiṣālāti wa al-asānīd 
  33. Al-Tahrīr al-sadīd limā  li al-shaykh muḥammad ma‘sūd al-‘azīzī al-nadwī min ittiṣālāt wa asānīd
  34. Al-durr al-farīd fī ikhtiṣār ‘awālī  al-asānīd
  35. Qurrat al-‘ayn fī ḥajj al-bayti wa ziyārat al-ḥaramayn
  36. Tamhīd ‘ilm al-ḥadīth
  37. Al-wafā’u bi asmā al-nisāi mawsu‘atu tarājimi a‘lām al-nisāi fī al-ḥadīth al-nabawiyy al-sharīf ''43 vols
  38. Ḥikmat al-ṣalāt majmū‘at al-ifādāt ‘an al-ṣalāt li al-imām ‘abd al-ḥamīd al-farāhī Compiled and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi
  39. Madkhal rāi‘ ila ṣaḥīḥ al-bukhārī wa mā fīhi min asrāri wa ṣanāi‘
  40. Riḥlat turkiyā
  41. Naẓarāt īmāniyya majmū‘at maqālāt tata‘allaq bi uṣūl al-dīn mustanidat ila al-fiṭrat wa al-‘aql wa al-waḥyi
  42. Imlāu al-khāṭir majmū‘at maqālāt mutafarriqa nushirat fī mawāqi‘ al-tawāsul al-ijtimā‘I
  43. Riḥlat al-‘umrah riḥlat sanat 1441h, wa riḥlat sanat 1443h,
  44. Tārīkh nadwat al-‘ulamā' 2 vols.
  45. Al-jāmi‘ al-mu‘īn fī ṭabaqāt al-shuyukh al-mutqinīn wa al-mujīzīn al-musnidīn 7 vols
  46. Ittiḥāf al-kibār bi asānīd al-shaykh al-muḥaddith abī ‘ammār thabat al-rāshidī
  47. Fatāwā wa abḥāth fiqhiyyah mu‘āṣirah
  48. Al-mufaṣṣal fī al-sīrah al-nabawiyyah
  49. Riḥlat al-hind
  50. Al-mu‘tamad fī uṣūl al-fatwā
  51. Riḥlat uzbikistān
  52. Ṡafwat al-‘aqāid
  53. Iskāt al-mu‘tadī ‘alā inṣāt al-muqtadī - edited and annotated by Mohammad Akram Nadwi

Bosnian

  1. Muhaddise učenjakinje u islamu - Translated by Naida Hota-Muminović and Nermina Baljević

Malayalam

  1. Muhaddithat, Malayalam- Translated by Muhammad Anees

Indonesian

  1. Al-Muhadditsat Ulama perempuan dalam bidang hadits - Translated by Fahmy Yamani

Bangla

Two different translations:
  1. Muhaddithat, Bangla
  2. Muhaddithat, Bangla

Malay

  1. Muhaddisat Wanita Periwayat Hadis - Translated by Faiq Sharin and Syazani Satri