Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
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| Born | 24 November 1914 Raebareli, British Raj, now India |
| Died | 31 December 1999 (aged 85) Raebareli, Raebareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Alma mater | Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Awards | King Faisal International Prize (1980) |
| Website | abulhasanalinadwi |
| Era | 20th Century |
| Region | India |
| School | Hanafi Naqshbandi |
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Islamic democracy, Interfaith dialogue |
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Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (Urdu: ابوالحسن علی حسنی ندوی ; 24 November 1914 - 31 December 1999) also spelt Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadvi (affectionately 'Ali Miyan') was an Indian, Islamic scholar, and author of over fifty books in various languages. He was one of the most important theorists of the revivalist movement.
He was born on 24 November 1914 into a scholastic family. He received his early education at his home in Takia, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India. His mother initiated his early training in Quranic studies; he later entered formal education in Arabic, Persian and Urdu.
His father, Hakim Syed Abdul Hai, wrote an 8-volumes Arabic encyclopaedia called Nuzhat al Khawatir (biographical notices of more than 5,000 theologian and jurists of the Sub-continent).
Nadwi received most of his advanced education at the Dar al-'Ulum of the Nadwat al-'Ulama in Lucknow.
Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi primarily wrote in Arabic, although also in Urdu, and wrote more than fifty books on history, theology, and biography, and thousands of seminar papers, articles, and recorded speeches.
His 1950 book Maza Khasiral Alam be Inhitat al-Muslimeen (lit. What did the world lose with the decline of Muslims?), translated into English as Islam and the World, was largely responsible for popularizing the concept of "modern Jahiliyya", coined by his teacher Abul Ala Maududi. Expounding Mawdudi's views, Nadwi argued that Muslims were to be held accountable for their predicament, because they came to rely on alien, un-Islamic institutions borrowed from the West. The Islamist author Syed Qutb commended Nadwi's writings for his use of the word jahiliyya to describe not a particular age in history (as earlier Muslim scholars did) but a state of moral corruption and materialism.
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