Syed Huzaifah Ali Nadwi
Research assistant, Understanding British Imams Project, Cardiff University
- Subject
- Hadith Studies
- Course
- 1 course at Al Balagh
Biography
Shaykh Syed Huzaifah Ali Nadwi is a scholar, translator, and educator specialising in Qurʾānic studies and Arabic codicology. He is a PhD scholar at SOAS, University of London, researching Qurʾānic interpretations and Muslim intellectual dynamics in Colonial South Asia, with a focus on Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (d. 1823) and the Madrasah Raḥīmiyyah. He holds degrees from Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ, Lucknow (Arabic and Ḥadīth Studies), studied at Cambridge Muslim College, earned an MA at SOAS on the school of Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (1863–1930), and completed a second master’s at Cardiff University on online religious learning.
A prolific writer in Urdu, English, and Arabic, his articles are available at hnadwi.com. He is an experienced translator, including Imām al-Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn. In manuscript studies, he brings specialist, hands-on expertise in Arabic codicology, covering paper and watermark analysis, scripts, bindings, marginalia, and colophons, with work on the Arabic holdings at El Escorial (Spain).
He regularly teaches tafsīr, delivers khuṭbahs and workshops across the UK, and contributes to curriculum design and community education. His interests include Qurʾānic hermeneutics, South Asian Muslim intellectual history, pedagogy and ethical formation, and manuscript culture. Known for a sources-first, student-centred approach, he connects classical scholarship to contemporary questions with clarity, balance, and accessibility. He is available for teaching, public speaking, manuscript consultancy, and translation projects.
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