Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqui

Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi (1931 – November 2022) was an Indian economist and the winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies.

Born in India in 1931, he was educated at Aligarh Muslim University as well as Rampur and Azamgarh. He served as associate professor of economics and professor of Islamic studies at the Aligarh Muslim University and as professor of economics at the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in its Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He later became a Fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and after that a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research & Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah.

Siddiqi was a prolific writer in Urdu and English. According to WorldCat, he has 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings. Several of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, etc. Perhaps his most widely read book is Banking without interest which was published in 27 editions between 1973 and 2000 in 3 languages and is held by 220 libraries worldwide.

Siddiqi died in California, USA in November 2022, at the age of 91.

Works

In Urdu Siddiqi wrote at least eleven books in Urdu, Including: G̲h̲air sūdī bank kārī. (1969) Islāmī adab : cand naẓaryātī maqālāt (1960?) Muslim Personal Law (1971), Taḥrīk-i Islāmī ʻaṣr-i ḥāz̤ir men̲, (Islamic Movement in Modern Times) (1995) Maqasid Al Shariah

Translation to Urdu Kitab al Kharaj by Abu Yusuf (1966).

In English He wrote at least ten books in English. His work in English has been published in over 100 editions. Among them are : Recent Theories of Profit: A Critical Examination (1971); Economic Enterprise in Islam (1972); Muslim Economic Thinking (1981); Banking Without Interest (1983); Issues in Islamic banking : selected papers (1983) was widely reviewed; Partnership and profit-sharing in Islamic law (1985) Insurance in an Islamic Economy (1985); Teaching Economics in Islamic Perspective (1996); Role of State in Islamic Economy (1996) Dialogue in Islamic Economics (2002). Shah Waliullah Award in New Delhi for contributions to Islamic Economics (2003)