Nadeem al-Wajidi

Wasif Hussain Nadeem al-Wajidi (born 23 July 1954), also spelled Maulana Nadeem-Ul-Wajidi, is an Indian Islamic scholar, columnist, critic, and writer who specializes in Urdu and Arabic language and literature.

He is the father of Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi.

Nadeem al-Wajidi was born on July 23, 1954 in Deoband.

His birth name is Wasif Hussain, suggested by Hussain Ahmad Madani.

His family was also literary, and his family settled in Deoband from Bijnor about a century and a half ago.

His grandfather Ahmad Hasan Deobandi was the Sheikh al-Hadith of Jamia Miftahul Uloom, Jalalabad, and his father Wajid Husain Deobandi was the Sheikh al-Hadith of Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Dabhel.

His maternal uncle, Sharif Hasan Deobandi was Sheikh-ul-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband.

He received his primary education in Deoband, then at Madrasa Miftahul Uloom in Jalalabad, where he got academic benefits from Masihullah Khan Sherwani also.

After that, in 1967, he was enrolled in Darul Uloom Deoband, and graduated from there in 1974 (1393 AH).

After graduation, he studied Arabic language and literature for two more years in the departments of completion of Arabic literature and specialization in Arabic literature in Darul Uloom.

He is one of the notable students of Wahiduzzaman Kairanawi.

He was appointed as the representative of Darul Uloom's Arabic student club An-Nadi al-Adabi by Kairanawi.

At that time, he used to bring out a wall magazine called Ash-Shu'oor from the same club.

After graduation, Nadeem taught for one year in a seminary in Arabia in Hyderabad, Deccan, on the orders of his teachers, Sharif Hasan Deobandi, Naseer Ahmad Khan, and Muhammad Naeem Deobandi.

Then, in 1978, the advisory council of Darul Uloom Deoband chose him as the supervisor of the writing and compilation department of the centenary celebration, where he worked for two years and published various books and magazines in Arabic and Urdu.

In 1978, he founded the Arabic Teaching Center in Deoband, from which thousands of students benefited for years.

Seven such books were published under this center and have been included in the curricula of several madrasas.

In 1980, after the centenary celebration of Darul Uloom Deoband, he established a publishing house called Darul Kitab in Deoband itself, and in the period of seven years between 1980 and 1987, he translated Al-Ghazali's renowned book, Ihyā-ul-Uloom, in installments, which was published in four volumes in Lahore and Karachi in Pakistan and Dhaka in Bangladesh.

From this publishing house, he has also published numerous books on academic and non-curricular subjects in local and foreign countries such as Beirut, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, and now this library is a well-known and famous library in the subcontinent.

In 2000, he published a monthly magazine called Tarjuman-e-Deoband, which is still being published and is popular and well-known among scholars in the country and abroad, as well as the writings of prestigious writers in the country and abroad.

He has authored nearly fifty books, including:

In 2001, he established the first residential educational institution for girls in Deoband under the name of Ma'had Ayesha As-Sadiqah in Deoband in an effort to correct the deterioration of Muslim society, especially women, in the name of women's freedom.

He appointed his wife as manager for internal affairs, who is himself an Islamic scholar.

He is the President of the All India Tanzeem-e-Ulama-e-Hind and a General Member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, among other posts.

Nadeem started writing essays in his student days, and he was encouraged in his writing by the fortnightly Urdu magazine Makarz of Deoband.

He was the editor of the wall magazine Shu'oor during his student life.

From that time until 2013, about 400 of his articles had been published in quality newspapers and magazines in the country and abroad, and thirteen collections of his articles had been published until 2013.

His articles are often published in the magazines Darul Uloom Deoband, Naya Daur Lucknow, Aaj Kal, Rashtriya Sahara, Daily Sahafat, Sada-e-Dawat, etc.

He is one of the current Indian literature in Arabic.

He is a renowned researcher with a pen-and-style personality.