Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi serves as an advisor to Islamic Dispute Resolution Service.

Dr. Nadwi is a world-renowned scholar of Indian origin, who has now resided in England for many years. He is recipient of the Allama Iqbal prize for contribution to Islamic thought and is the Principal and co-founder of Al-Salam Institute.

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Dr. Nadwi started his Islamic education in Madrasah al-Islah, a madrasah that was started by the great Indian scholar and thinker, Moulana Hamiduddin Al-Farahi. After completing his initial studies there, he went on to join the prestigious seminary, Nadwatul Ulama. He completed his BA Alimiyyah Degree and MA in Hadith Studies with first class honors and top of his class. He was directly appointed to teach at the Institute by the then director, Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi. While teaching at Nadwatul Ulama, Dr. Nadwi pursued further studies at Lucknow University in the field of economics (BA) and he then completed a PhD program in Arabic Literature.

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Dr. Nadwi, at the request of Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, joined the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, as a research fellow in 1989. In addition to numerous research papers, he has authored and translated over 30 titles on Language, Jurisprudence, Qur’an and Hadith. In 2013, he relinquished his post at University of Oxford to focus on his own writings which include a comprehensive explanation on the classical hadith masterpiece Sahih Muslim.

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Dr. Nadwi’s authoring and teaching experience spans over 30 years. His introductory books on Arabic Grammar (Al-Nahw), Morphology (Al-Sarf) and Principles (Usul) of Tafsir, Hadith and Fiqh are used all over the world in madrasahs, Islamic institutes and colleges teaching Alimiyyah (Islamic scholarship degree) students. He has also assisted many of the Islamic colleges with curriculum development. He continues to teach in the UK through Al-Salam Institute, Cambridge Islamic College, and other forums.   

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He is also author of Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam, a monumental 57-volume biographical dictionary which charts some of the significant contributions made by female hadith scholars over the centuries. This research spanned a period of 15 years and resulted in the 57-volume work detailing and analyzing the biographies of over 9000 female scholars. This work is hailed as a unique masterpiece in the history of Islam.

 

Dr. Nadwi’s passion for learning and teaching made him travel around the world to visit and study under many of the renowned scholars of our time. He is widely recognized as one of Western Europe’s leading Islamic scholars and thinkers.