Sulaiman Nadvi was an eminent Indian historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam.
Background
Nadvi was born on November 22, 1884 in the Desna, Bihar a village of Patna (then in British India). His father, Hakeem Sayyed Abul Hasan was a Sufi. Later he received his education from his elder brother, Hakeem Sayyed Abu Habeeb and his father, who was a physician at Islampur near Patna.
Education
From there he went to Darbhanga where he studied for a few months at Madrasa-e-Imdadia. He studied for seven years at Nadva. In 1906, he graduated from the Nadva.
Career
Thumbnail He co-authored and wrote. In 1899 he went to Phulwari Sharif (Bihar) where he became a disciple of Maulana Mohiuddin and Sulaiman Phulwari. In 1901, he was admitted into Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama at Lucknow.
He was also appointed sub-editor of the journal, An-Nadwa. his first article, Waqt (Time) was published in the monthly Urdu Journal Makhzan edited by Abdul Qadir.
In 1908, Nadvi was appointed an instructor of Modern Arabic and Theology at Dar-ul-Uloom Nadva. Aligarh Muslim University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctorate of Literature (Doctor of Letters ) in 1940.
In 1910, Shibli Nomani began writing in Urdu, but died before completing lieutenant After Nomani"s death in 1914, Nadvi left his position as a professor at Deccan College, Pune and traveled to Azamgarh.
There he edited and published the two first volumes of penned by Nomani, and completed the remaining four volumes himself.
The work was initially funded by Sultan Jehan Begum of Bhopal, and later by Nizam of Hyderabad. In October and November 1925, Nadvi delivered a series of eight lectures on the life Muhammad at Madras. These lectures were later published as.
In 1933, he published one of his major works.
The nucleus of this book was an article on noted Persian scholar and poet Omar. In 1940, he published, a children"s book about Muhammad.
Nadvi founded Dar-ul-Mosannefeen (Academy of Authors), also known as the Shibli Academy, at Azamgarh. The first book published there was Ard-ul-Quran (2 volumes).
In June 1950 (after the partition of India), Nadvi moved to Pakistan and settled in Karachi.
He was appointed Chairman of Taleemat-e-Islami Board to advise on the Islamic aspects of Pakistan"s constitution. He died on November 22, 1953 in Karachi at the age of 69.