Syed Mehboob Rizwi

Syed Mehboob Rizwi (1911–1979) was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar, author and historian, best known for Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband, his two volume Urdu work on the history of Darul Uloom Deoband.

Biography Syed Mehboob Rizwi was born in 1911 in a Rizwi Sayyid family in Deoband. He studied Islamic sciences at the Madrasa Manba-ul-Ulum Gulaothi and Darul Uloom Deoband.

Rizwi wrote for different journals and newspapers including, Weekly Al-Jamiat, Monthly Al-Burhan, Monthly Molvi and Monthly Deen-o-Dunya of Delhi, Monthly Ma'arif, Azamgarh, Monthly Haadi, Deoband, Monthly Shams al-Mashayikh, Bhopal, Monthly Shams-ul-Islam, Amritsar, and Bi-monthly Asia, Lahore. He also wrote for the Darul Uloom, the monthly journal of Darul Uloom Deoband.

Rizwi died in 1979. Maktoobat-e-Nabvi Tarikh Darul Uloom Deoband (The History of Darul Uloom Deoband, translated to English by Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi). Aab-e-ZamZam Makateeb-e-Hijaz Tazkirah Saadat-e-Rizwiyyah Tarikh-e-Deoband