Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi

Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi (1903 – 13 December 1974) 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.

Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi
معین الدین احمد ندوی
Personal details
Born	1903 Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
Died	13 December 1974(1974-12-13) (aged 70–71)
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Senior posting
Teacher	Sulaiman Nadvi

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.^[1]

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.^[1] He died on 13 December 1974.^[2]

Works

Nadwi wrote extensively in Urdu on Islamic history, biography, and literature. His major works include Tarikh al-Islam (four volumes), 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 (“The Contemporary Arab Governments”). 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.^[1]

Sources

• Usmani, Yasmeen (2014). Shah Moinuddin Ahmad Nadvi ki ilmi wa adbi khidmat (Phd thesis) (in Urdu). India: Department of Urdu, University of Mumbai. p. 1. hdl:10603/660390.
• Azmi, Mirza Nadeem Baig (2009). Shah Moinuddin Ahmad Nadwi Hayat Aur Karname (Phd thesis) (in Urdu). India: Department of Urdu, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University. p. 1. hdl:10603/179501.
• Syed Vasiulla Bakhtiary, Umri (2023). "Dabistan-e-Shibli Ke Gule Sarsabd Shah Moinuddin Ahmed Nadwi Ki Adabi Khidmaat". Qawmi Zaban. 8 (5): 12–17. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10357644. ISSN 2321-4627.
• Nadwi, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani (2000). Shaikh, Adam (ed.). Maulana Shah Moinuddin Ahmad Nadvi (in Urdu). Mumbai: Anjuman-e-Islam Urdu Research Institute. p. 1.
• Al-Azami, Mohammad Ilyas (2007). Shah Moinuddin Ahmad Nadvi: Hayat Ea Kidmat (in Urdu). Karachi: Adabi Daira. p. 32.
• Al-Azami, Mohammad Ilyas (2002). Darul Musannefeen Ki Tarikhi Khidmat (in Urdu). Patna: Khuda Bakhsh Library. pp. 247–260.
• Roquiya, Zainab (2014). Darul Musannefin Ki Adbi Tasaneef Ka Tahqiqi Wa Tanqidi Jaiza (PhD thesis) (in Urdu). India: Department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University. pp. 83–92. Archived from the original on 14 December 2016.
• Parveen, Naghma (2016). Seerat Nigari mein Darul Mosannafeen Azamgarh ki Kidmat Ek Tehqiqi Jaiyza (in Urdu). India: Department of Sunni Theology, Aligarh Muslim University. pp. 65–71. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019.
• Nizamuddin (2015). Darulmusannyafin Shiblee Ekademy Ka Aitihasik Addhyayan 1914 Se 1947 (PhD thesis) (in Hindi). India: Department of History, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University. pp. 103–105. Archived from the original on 24 September 2025.
• Nomani, Khursheed (2003). Dar-ul-musannifin Ki Tareekh Aur Ilmi Khidmat (in Urdu). India: Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy. pp. 84–88.
• Islahi, Kalim Sifaat (2014). Dar-ul-Musannifin Ke Sau Saal (in Urdu). India: Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy. pp. 81–86. ISBN 978-93-82201-29-8.
• Rahman, Obaidur (2017). Musahamatu Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Fi Nashril Lughatil Arabiati Wal Adabil Islami Wa Dauruha Fi Majalis Sahafati Wal Elam (PhD thesis) (in Arabic). India: University of Calcutta. pp. 270–273. hdl:10603/314806. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
• Khan, Ghazanfar Ali (2001). Nadvat-al-Ulama: a centre of islamic learning (PhD thesis). India: Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University. p. 133–134. hdl:10603/49833.

See also

• List of Deobandis