Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi is from the Indian city of Jaunpur and a graduate of the world-renowned Nadwatul Ulama (India), where he studied and taught Shariah. Shaykh Akram is a Muhaddith of the highest calibre who has specialized in Ilm ul Rijal (the study of the narrators of Hadith).
He has Ijaza (licenses) from over 1,000 of the most renowned scholars of our time. Shaykh Akram Nadwi holds a doctorate in Arabic Language and has authored and translated over 100 titles on Language, Jurisprudence, Qur’an, and Hadith. The Shaykh completed a monumental 43-volume work on the lives of female scholars of Hadith in Islamic history.
He is the recipient of the Allama Iqbal Prize for his contribution to Islamic thought and worked as a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University, for over twenty years.