Publications

Books, research and translations from Shaykh Akram Nadwi’s scholarly work.

70+ books and major works
43 volumes in Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa

Shaykh Akram Nadwi has authored, edited and translated more than seventy books across hadith, fiqh, biography, Arabic language and Islamic intellectual history, alongside many articles and academic papers in Arabic, English and Urdu.

Key works

Al-Fiqh al-Islāmī

A structured treatment of purification, prayer, funerals, zakah, fasting and hajj according to the Ḥanafī madhhab.

Mabādiʾ series

Foundational works covering Arabic grammar, morphology, uṣūl al-fiqh, uṣūl al-ḥadīth, uṣūl al-tafsīr, logic and rhetoric.

Bibliography

English

  1. Madrasah Life: A Student's Day at Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ
    Turath Publishing, London — 2007
  2. Al-Fiqh al-Islāmī According to the Ḥanafī Madhhab: Rites of Purification, Prayers and Funerals — Vol 1
    Angelwing Media, London — 2007
  3. Al-Muḥaddithāt: The Women Scholars in Islam
    Interface Publications, Oxford — 2007
  4. The Garden of the Ḥadīth Scholars — Bustān al-Muḥaddithīn
    Turath Publishing, London — 2007
  5. Abū Ḥanīfah: His Life, Legal Method & Legacy
    Kube Publishing Ltd + Interface Publications Ltd, Leicester + Oxford — 2010
  6. Al-Fiqh al-Islāmī According to the Ḥanafī Madhhab: Rites of Zakāh, Fasting and Ḥajj — Vol 2
    Angelwing Media, London — 2012
  7. Shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī Nadwī: His Life & Works
    Nadwi Foundation, West Yorkshire — 2013
  8. Ibn Ḥazm on the Lawfulness of Women Attending Prayers in the Mosque
    Interface Publications Ltd + Cambridge Islamic College, Oxford + Cambridge — 2015
  9. Al-Muḥaddithāt: Women Scholars of Hadith
    Ibn Haldun University Press, Istanbul — 2019
  10. Journey to Andalus
    Angelwing Media, London — 2019
  11. Lessons Learned: Treasures from Nadwah's Sages
    Quran Literacy Press, Somerset — 2019
  12. Remembering Beautiful Days in Jerusalem
    Al Buruj Press, London — 2020
  13. Foundation to Ḥadīth Science: A Primer on Understanding & Studying Hadith
    Quran Literacy Press + Al-Salam Institute Press, New Jersey + London — 2021

Urdu

  1. ʿIrāq wa Saʿūdī ʿArab
    Muslim Intellectual Forum, Lucknow — 1990
  2. ʿIrāq wa Īrān
    Muslim Intellectual Forum, Lucknow — 1990
  3. ʿIrāq kī Jāriḍiyyat aur Tawsīʿ Pasandī
    Muslim Intellectual Forum, Lucknow — 1990
  4. Armughāne Farang Paghām — Brithaniyya ke Musalmāno ke Nām
    Allamah Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi Academy, London — 2004
  5. Armughāne Ḥajj — Ḥadīth ke Ek Tālibe ʿIlm ka Safarnāmah
    Anjuman Khuddam al-Islam, Lahore — 2004
  6. Nadwe ka Ek Din
    Majlis Nashriyyat Islam, Karachi — 2006
  7. Safarnāmah Hind
    Dar al-Rashid, Lucknow — 2018
  8. Maghribī UP ka Ek Yādgār Safar
    Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr, Saharanpur — 2018
  9. Armughāne Ḥajj — Ḥadīth ke Ek Tālibe Ilm ka Safarnāmah (2nd ed.)
    Maktaba Ahsan, Lucknow — 2018
  10. Fikr Yunus
    Dar al-Buhuth wa al-Nashr, Saharanpur — 2019
  11. Ek Haftah Hindustān mein
    Maktabah Ihsan, Lucknow — 2019
  12. Maqāme Ṣaḥāba: Ishkālāt wa Jawābāt
    Dar al-Rashid, Lucknow — 2021
  13. Dhikr Nadwah
    Mahad Imam Hasan ul Banna, Bhatkal — 2022
  14. Muḥaddithāt — ʿIlm Ḥadīth ke Irtiqāʾ me Khawātīn kī Khidmat
    Hidayat Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi — 2022
  15. Umm al-Muʾminīn Ḥaḍrat ʿĀʾishah Ṣiddīqa Raḍiya Allāh ʿanhā kī ʿUmr Biwaqt Rukhsatī
    Majlis Tahqiqat wa Nashriyat Islam, Lucknow — 2022

Arabic

  1. Al-Tarbiyatu wa al-Mujtamaʿ
    Al-Dar al-Shamiyyah + Dar al-Qalam, Beirut + Damascus — 1991
  2. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah wa Taʾthīruhī fī Āsiyā al-Janūbiyyah
    Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford — 1992
  3. Nafahāt al-Hind wa al-Yaman bi-Asānīd al-Shaykh Abī al-Ḥasan
    Maktabat al-Imam al-Shāfiʿī, Riyadh — 1998
  4. Uṣūl al-Shāshī: Mukhtaṣar fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh al-Islāmī
    Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ + Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Lucknow + Beirut — 1998
  5. Al-Sayyid Sulaymān al-Nadwī — Amīr ʿUlamā al-Hind fī ʿAṣrihī wa Shaykh al-Nadwiyyīn
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2001
  6. Shiblī al-Nuʿmānī — ʿAllāmat al-Hind al-Adīb wa al-Muʾarrikh al-Nāqid al-Arīb
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2001
  7. Kifāyat al-Rāwī ʿan al-ʿAllāmat al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-Qardāwī
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2001
  8. Bughyat al-Matābiʿ li-Asānīd al-ʿAllāmat al-Sharīf Muḥammad al-Rabiʿ
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2001
  9. Bustān al-Muḥaddithīn
    Dar al-Gharb al-Islami + Dar al-Kutub, Beirut + Peshawar — 2002
  10. Al-ʿIqd al-Lujaynī fī Asānīd al-Shaykh Salmān al-Ḥusaynī
    Dar al-Gharb al-Islami + Dar al-Sunnah al-Hind, Beirut + nd — 2004
  11. Mabādiʾ al-Naḥw
    Dar al-Tarbiyah + Maktabat Ihsan + Al-Salam Institute Press, Damascus + Lucknow + London — 2006
  12. Mabādiʾ al-Taṣrīf
    Dar al-Tarbiyah + Maktabat Ihsan + Al-Salam Institute Press, Damascus + Lucknow + London — 2006
  13. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nadwī — al-ʿĀlim al-Murabbi wa al-Dāʿiyat al-Ḥakīm
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2006
  14. Ayyām fī Bilād al-Shām
    Dar al-Tarbiyah, Damascus — 2007
  15. Mabādiʾ fī ʿIlm Uṣūl al-Fiqh
    Dar al-Tarbiyah + Al-Maktabat al-Nadwiyyah + Al-Salam Institute Press, Damascus + Lucknow + London — 2007
  16. Mabādiʾ fī Uṣūl al-Ḥadīth wa al-Isnād
    Dar al-Tarbiyah + Al-Salam Institute Press + Maktabat Ihsan, Damascus + London + Lucknow — 2007
  17. Mabādiʾ fī ʿIlm Uṣūl al-Tafsīr
    Dar al-Tarbiyah + Al-Salam Institute Press, Damascus + London — 2007
  18. Riḥlat Shiblī al-Nuʿmānī ilā al-Qusṭanṭīniyyah wa Bayrūt wa al-Quds wa al-Qāhirah
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2011
  19. Ayyām Zāhiratun fī Miṣr wa al-Qāhirah
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2011
  20. Al-Shaykh al-Muḥaddith ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dahlawiyyu — Ḥayātuhu wa Āthāruh
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2013
  21. Al-Farāʾid fī ʿAwālī al-Asānīd wa Ghawālī al-Fawāʾid
    Dar al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah, Beirut — 2015
  22. Tārīkh Arḍ al-Qurʾān
    Dar al-Qalam, Damascus — 2016
  23. Al-Dhikr al-Jamīl li-Ayyāmin fī al-Quds wa al-Khalīl
    Dar al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah + Markaz al-Warraq, Beirut + Kuwait — 2018
  24. Man ʿAllamanī?
    Dar al-Rashid, Lucknow — 2018
  25. Man ʿAllamanī (2nd ed.)
    Maktabat al-Manhal al-Safi, nd — 2019
  26. Juzʾ fīh al-Aḥādīth al-ʿAwālī al-Thumāniyyāt wa al-Tusāʿiyyāt
    Dar al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah, Beirut — 2018
  27. Riḥlat al-Andalus
    Dar al-Muqtabas, Damascus — 2018
  28. Riḥlat Amrīkā
    Wizarat al-Awqāf wa al-Shuʾūn al-Islāmiyyah, nd — 2019
  29. Mabādiʾ al-Manṭiq
    Al-Salam Institute Press, London — 2019
  30. Mabādiʾ al-Balāghah
    Al-Salam Institute Press, London — 2019
  31. Al-ʿAllāmat al-Sharīf Muḥammad Wāḍiḥ Rashīd al-Ḥasanī al-Nadwī — Ḥayātuhu wa Fikruhu wa Aʿmāluh
    Maktabat Salma al-Thaqafiyyah, Tetouan — 2019
  32. Al-Imām Ibn Taymiyyah al-Ḥarrānī Mujaddidan li-Qarnih
    Dar al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah, Beirut — 2019
  33. Al-Iḥkām lil-Mujmaʿ ʿalayhi min Aḥādīth al-Iḥkām
    Dar al-Sammān, Istanbul — 2019
  34. Al-Kanz al-Farīd fī Tarjamat al-ʿAllāmat Muḥammad Mutīʿ al-Ḥāfiẓ wa Aʿmālihī wa mā Lahu min al-Ittiṣālāt wa al-Asānīd
    Dar al-Bashāʾir al-Islāmiyyah, Beirut — 2019
  35. Al-Taḥrīr al-Sadīd limā li-al-Shaykh Muḥammad Maʿṣūd al-ʿAzīzī al-Nadwī min Ittiṣālāt wa Asānīd
    Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Fikr al-Islāmī, Saharanpur — 2020
  36. Al-Durr al-Farīd fī Ikhtiṣār ʿAwālī al-Asānīd
    Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Fikr al-Islāmī, Saharanpur — 2020
  37. Qurrat al-ʿAyn fī Ḥajj al-Bayt wa Ziyārat al-Ḥaramayn
    Al-Firdaws, Alexandria — 2021
  38. Tamhīd fī ʿIlm al-Ḥadīth
    Dar al-Sammān, Istanbul — 2021
  39. Al-Wafāʾu bi-Asmā al-Nisāʾ — Mawsuʿat Tarājim Aʿlām al-Nisāʾ fī al-Ḥadīth al-Nabawiyy al-Sharīf (43 vols)
    Dar al-Minhaj, Jeddah — 2021
  40. Ḥikmat al-Ṣalāt — Majmūʿat al-Ifādāt ʿan al-Ṣalāt li-al-Imām ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Farāhī
    Dar Ammar, Amman — 2021
  41. Madkhal Rāʾiʿ ilā Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī wa mā fīhi min Asrār wa Ṣanāʾiʿ
    Dar Ammar + Al-Salam Institute Press, Amman + London — 2021
  42. Riḥlat Turkiyā
    Dar al-Asālah, Istanbul — 2021
  43. Naẓarāt Īmāniyya — Majmūʿat Maqālāt Tataʿallaq bi-Uṣūl al-Dīn Mustanidat ilā al-Fiṭra wa al-ʿAql wa al-Waḥy
    Dar al-Muqtabas, Beirut — 2022
  44. Imlāʾ al-Khāṭir — Majmūʿat Maqālāt Mutafarriqa Nushirat fī Mawāqiʿ al-Tawāṣul al-Ijtimāʿī
    Dar al-Muqtabas, Beirut — 2022
  45. Riḥlat al-ʿUmrah — Riḥlat Sanat 1441H wa Riḥlat Sanat 1443H
    Dar al-Muqtabas, Beirut — 2022
  46. Tārīkh Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ (2 vols)
    Dar al-Bashāʾir, Beirut — 2022

Bosnian

  1. Muhaddise Učenjakinje u Islamu
    Centar za napredne studije, nd (Bosnia) — 2018

Malayalam

  1. Muhaddithāt (Malayalam)
    Book Plus Publishers, Malappuram — 2021

Indonesian

  1. Al-Muhadditsat: Ulama Perempuan dalam Bidang Hadits
    Gema Insani, Jakarta — 2022

Translation Work

  1. Risalah-i Danishmandi (“Basic Principles of Learning and Teaching”): an Arabic translation of a brief treatise in Persian by Shah Waliullah, published in Al-Bath al-Islami, Nadwat al-Ulama, Lucknow, November 1981.
  2. Significance of Al-Muwatta among other collections of Hadith: an Arabic translation of the preface of Musaffa written by Shah Waliullah in Persian, published in Al-Bath al-Islami, Nadwat al-Ulama, Lucknow, April–June 1982.
  3. A Survey of Books on the Various Disciplines of Hadith Studies, and Biographies of their Authors: an Arabic translation from the Persian work Bustan al-Muhaddithin written by Shah Abd al-Aziz, published in Al-Bath al-Islami, Lucknow, January 1985–August 1986.
  4. Al-Tarbiyat wa-l-Mujtama: an Arabic translation of the Urdu book Samaj ki Talim-u Tarbiyat written by Professor M. Rabi Hasani Nadwi, published by Dar al-Qalam, Damascus and Al-Dar al-Shamiyya, Beirut, 1991.
  5. Impact of Ibn Taymiyya on South Asia: an Arabic translation of an English article by Professor Khaliq Ahmad Nizami, published by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford, 1992.
  6. Journey to Turkey, Egypt and Greater Syria: an Arabic translation of Allama Shibli’s Urdu work Safarnama-i Misr-u Rim-u Sham, published in Thaqafat al-Hind, New Delhi, May–July 1992.
  7. Hayat-i Shaykh Abd al-Haqq Muhaddith Dihlawi: an Arabic translation of a work by Professor Khaliq Ahmad Nizami on the life and works of Shaykh Abd al-Haqq Muhaddith Dihlawi.
  8. Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Nadwi: a detailed biography of Shaykh Abu al-Hasan, translated into Arabic.
  9. Ard al-Qur’an: an Arabic translation of S. Sulayman Nadwi’s book on the geography of the Qur’an, published by Dar al-Qalam, Damascus, in 2005.

In addition, Dr Nadwi translated about one hundred brief articles, reviews, smaller works and pamphlets for journals and newspapers between 1981 and 2002.