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Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Nadwi

أبو الحسن علي الحسني النَّدْوي

Notable figure 1333–1420 AH / 1914–1999 CE · Source: المعجم الجامع في تراجم المعاصرين (مجموعة من المؤلّفين)، ترجمة «علي بن عبد الحي بن فخر الدين الحسني الندوي» بإعداد محمد طارق زبير الندوي: المولد في تكية ٦ محرّم ١٣٣٣هـ، وتدريس الأدب العربيّ، و«مختارات في أدب العرب» (١٩٤٠م) و«قصص النبيّين» للأطفال و«القراءة الراشدة» (١٩٤٢–١٩٤٤م)، و«مذكّرات سائح في الشرق الأوسط»، وعضويّة مجامع اللغة العربيّة، على تراث · Second source: King Faisal Prize, Winners Book: Service to Islam (1979–2018), entry 'Shaikh Abul-Hasan Ali Al-Hasani Al-Nadawi' (used only for the death date: December 1999)

Affiliation

Arabic prose writer and author of Arabic readers

Biography

Born in the village of Takia in Rae Bareli district, India, he learned Arabic as a boy and went on to teach Arabic literature and its history at Dar al-'Ulum of Nadwat al-'Ulama'. He compiled the anthology Mukhtarat fi Adab al-'Arab for students (1940), wrote two Arabic series for children, Qisas al-Nabiyyin and al-Qira'a al-Rashida (1942–1944), and Arabic travel writing such as Mudhakkirat Sa'ih fi al-Sharq al-Awsat; he was a member of the Arabic Language Academies of Damascus, Cairo and Jordan.