Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi

Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi was an Indian Islamic scholar, historian, and writer of the 20th century. He served as the president of the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy in Azamgarh and wrote in the fields of history, literature, and translation.

Biography

Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi was born in 1903 in the village of Rudawli, Barabanki district, Uttar Pradesh. His early education was under the supervision of his maternal grandfather, Shah Sharaf Uddin. He later studied at Darul Ulum Nizamiya in Farangi Mahal, Lucknow, before enrolling at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama. Among his teachers was Sulaiman Nadvi, from whom he received training in writing and historical studies.
After graduating in 1924, he joined the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy at the invitation of Sulaiman Nadvi. He worked there for the rest of his life, teaching, researching, and writing. Following Sulaiman Nadvi's move to Bhopal in 1946, Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi was entrusted with the administration of the academy and its magazine Ma'arif. When Sulaiman Nadvi migrated to Pakistan in 1950, Moinuddin assumed full leadership of the academy in 1951 and remained in office until his death. In addition to his role at the academy, he was associated with several educational and literary institutions, including the Lucknow Urdu Academy and Aligarh Muslim University. He died on 13 December 1974.

Works

Nadwi wrote extensively in Urdu on Islamic history, biography, and literature. His major works include Tarikh al-Islam, which became part of the curriculum at Nadwatul Ulama and other institutions, Hayat-e-Sulaiman, a biography of his teacher Sulaiman Nadvi, the first volume of al-Muhajirin, the sixth and seventh volumes of Sirat al-Sahaba, Tabi‘in, Din Rahmat, and Islam wa ‘Arabi Tamaddun, an abridged Urdu translation of Kurd ‘Ali’s Islam wa al-Hadarat al-‘Arabiyya. He also translated Anwar al-‘Uyun fi Asrar al-Maknun by ‘Abd al-Quddus al-Ghangohi, which discusses the life and sayings of ‘Abd al-Haqq al-Rudawlawi, as well as Arab ki Maujuda Hakumatain. In addition to books, he contributed articles to Ma‘arif, the magazine of Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy, and presented papers on various occasions, with a selection of his literary essays later published under the title Adabi Naqush.