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.
Akram Nadwi | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | British |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi, Ijtihad |
| Creed | Athari |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Muhaddithat |
| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama University of Lucknow |
| Occupation | Author, Professor, Islamic scholar, Former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford |
| Muslim leader | |
| Teacher | Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi |
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