# Akram Nadwi

Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c. 1963) is a British 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 (Biographical Dictionary of Women Narrators of Hadith), 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 (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.

## 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 ḥayātuhu 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)