Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi

Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an Indian Islamic scholar and an Urdu-language author who co-founded the Nadwatul Musannifeen. He served as the dean of the Faculty of Theology in Aligarh Muslim University.

Akbarabadi was an alumnus of Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi, Darul Uloom Deoband, St. Stephen's College, Delhi and the Oriental College, Lahore. He taught at Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri, Aligarh Muslim University, University of Calicut and the McGill University. He authored books including Fehm-e-Quran, Ghulaman-e-Islam, Siddiq-e-Akbar and Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal. His students include Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and Mushir-ul-Haq.

Birth and education Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi was born in the colonial Indian city of Agra in 1908. He studied his primary classes at home, then he studied in Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi, and later graduated from the Darul Uloom Deoband. There he studied under Anwar Shah Kashmiri, Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Ibrahim Balyawi. He was offered principalship of the Madrasa Alia, in Calcutta, of which he took the charge on 2 February 1949.

In 1958, Akbarabadi became the dean of the Faculty of Theology in the Aligarh Muslim University. He transformed a weak faculty and introduced graduate teaching and a doctoral programme. His works include: Al-riq fi al-Islam Fehm-e-Quran Ghulaman-e-Islam Hindustan ki shar'i haisiyat Hind Pak̄istān kī taḥrīk-i āzādī aur ʻulamāʼe ḥaqq kā siyāsī muʼaqqaf K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i Iqbāl par ek naẓar Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal Siddiq-e-Akbar Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi aur unke Naaqid Uthman Zinnurayn Wahi Ilahi

Legacy Studies of Akbarabadi include: Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ahwaal-Aasaar by Dr Masood Alam Qasmi Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Hayat-o-Khidmat by Dr Qaiser Habeeb Hashmi Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi aur unki Adbi Khidmat by Miss Jahan Ara (Thesis submitted in Punjab University, Lahore).