Dr. Mohammad Akram Nadwi is the Principal and Co-Founder of Al-Salam Institute in the United Kingdom and serves as Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, where he continues to advance classical Islamic scholarship for contemporary audiences. A graduate of the renowned Nadwat al-’Ulama in Lucknow, India, he earned first-class honours in Hadith Studies before completing a PhD in Arabic Literature at Lucknow University. At the invitation of the late Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, he joined the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies as a Research Fellow, where he spent more than two decades conducting pioneering research on Hadith and Islamic intellectual traditions. He has authored and edited more than 30 books in Arabic, English, Persian, and Urdu, including the landmark Al-Muḥaddithāt: The Women Scholars in Islam, a monumental biographical work documenting thousands of female Hadith scholars across Islamic history. His scholarship has significantly reshaped modern understanding of women’s contributions to Islamic learning. Recipient of the Allama Iqbal Prize for his contribution to Islamic thought, Dr. Nadwi is widely recognised as one of the leading Muslim scholars of his generation.
