Abul Hasan Ali Hasni Nadwi also spelt Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadvi (affectionately Ali Miyan) was an Indian, Islamic scholar, and author of over fifty books in various languages.
He was born on 5 December 1913 into a scholastic family.
He received his early education at his home in Takia, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India. His mother initiated his early training in Quranic studies; he later entered formal education in arabic, Persian and Urdu.
Nadwi received most of his advanced education at the Dar al Ulum of the Nadwat-al-Ulama in Lucknow.
Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi primarily wrote in Arabic, although also in urdu, and wrote more than fifty books on history, theology, and biography, and thousands of seminar, articles, and recorded speeches.
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi died on 23 Ramdadan, 1420 AH. (December 31, 1999) in Raebareli, India at the age of 86