Abdul Salam Nadwi

Abdul Salam Nadwi
عبد السلام ندوی
Personal details
Born	(1883-02-16)16 February 1883 Azamgarh
Died	4 October 1955(1955-10-04) (aged 72)
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Senior posting
Teacher	Shibli Nomani

Abdul Salam Nadwi (16 February 1883 – 4 October 1955) was an Indian Islamic scholar, historian, and writer of the 20th century. He was among the early students of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama and a close disciple of Shibli Nomani. For much of his career, he was associated with the Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy in Azamgarh, where he worked for several decades.

Biography

Abdul Salam Nadwi was born on 16 February 1883 in Alauddin Patti, a village in Azamgarh, India. He received his early education at local institutions before joining Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in 1906. There, he studied under Shibli Nomani and began his training in research and writing. In the same year, he wrote an essay on the Hindu doctrine of transmigration, which was published in the magazine Al-Nadwa.

In 1909, Nadwi was appointed as a teacher at Nadwa. In 1912, he traveled to Calcutta with Abul Kalam Azad and worked with him on the newspaper Al-Hilal. Following the closure of al-Hilal and the death of Shibli Nomani, Nadwi joined the newly established Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy in 1914, where he remained active until his death in 1955.

Works

Nadwi’s writings fall into three main categories: history, literature, and translation. His historical works include Uswa-e-Sahaba (2 vols.), Uswa-e-Sahabiyat, Hukama-e-Islam (2 vols.), Tarikh Akhlaq-e-Islam, Imam Razi, and Sirat Umar ibn Abdul Aziz. His literary works include Sher al-Hind (2 vols.) and Iqbal Kamil, an early study of Muhammad Iqbal. In translation, he produced Urdu versions of several texts, such as Tarikh Fiqh Islami, works of Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Yamin, and Inqilab al-Umam.

Sources

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• 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. 93–95. Archived from the original on 24 September 2025.
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• 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. 258–259. 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. 127–128. hdl:10603/49833.

See also

• List of Deobandis