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{{short description|Indian Muslim historian}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|religion = [[Islam]] (birth — 1906) <br> [[Ahmadiyyah]] (1906 — 1915) <br> [[Islam]] (1916 — death)
|denomination = [[Sunni Islam]]
|occupation = Historian
|image = Akbar Shah Najibabadi calligraphy.jpg
|caption = Calligraphic name of Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi
|name = Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi
|birth_date = 1875
|birth_place = [[Najibabad]], Bijnor, [[United Provinces of British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1938|05|10|1875}}
|notable_works = ''Tarikh-e-Islam''
}}
'''Akbar Shah Khan Najibabadi''' (1875 – 10 May 1938) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Sunni Muslim historian who wrote ''Tarikh-e-Islam'' in three volumes.<ref name="aaina">{{cite book |author1=Masood Alam Falahi |title=Hindustan mai Zat-Pat awr Musalman |trans-title=Indian Muslims and Casteism |publisher=Al-Qazi Publishers |location=[[New Delhi]] |page=162 |edition=May 2007 |language=Urdu}}</ref>

==Biography==
Najibabadi was born in 1875 in [[Najibabad]], Bijnor, [[United Provinces of British India]]. He began teaching in Najibabad Middle School in 1897 and later taught Persian in High School, Najibabad.<ref name="qawl">{{cite book |author1=Akbar Shah Najibabadi |title=Qawl-e-Haq |publisher=Areeb Publications |location=[[New Delhi]] |pages=15–20 |edition=2016 |language=Urdu |chapter=Biographical sketch by Javed al-Hasan Siddiqi}}</ref>

During 1906 and 1914, he stayed in [[Qadian]] and embraced [[Ahmadi Islam|Ahmadism]]. He drew close to [[Hakeem Noor-ud-Din]], [[Mirza Ghulam Ahmad]]’s successor, and wrote his biography entitled ''Mirqat al-Yaqin fi Hayati Nur al-Din'' in two volumes, the second of which remained unpublished because of his reversion back to [[Sunni Islam]].<ref name="ahrar"/> In Qadian, Najibabadi was superintendent of the Madrasa Nur al-Islam of Ahmadis for five years.<ref name="ahrar"/>

After Noor-ud-Din's death, Najibabadi turned to [[Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad]] but could not agree with him more. Until the middle of 1915, Najibabadi associated with the [[Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam|Lahori group of Ahmadis]].<ref name="ahrar">{{cite web |author1=Dr Umar Farooq |title=مولانا اکبر شاہ نجیب آبادی کا قادیانیت سے تعلق واِنقطاع |trans-title= Akbar Shah Najibabadi's journey of Faith|url=https://ahrar.org.pk/ur/naqeeb-rasala/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7-%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1-%D8%B4%D8%A7%DB%81-%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%A8-%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AA/ |website=ahrar.org.pk |publisher=[[Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam]] |access-date=24 July 2020 |language=Urdu}}</ref> After being associated with the Lahori group for sometime, he reverted to [[Sunni Islam]].<ref name="qawl" /><ref name="ahrar"/>

In 1916, Najibabadi started a monthly journal entitled ''Ibrat'', contributors to which included [[Abdul Halim Sharar]] and [[Aslam Jairajpuri]]. [[Muhammad Iqbal]] also published poems in it.<ref name="qawl" /> He managed [[Zamindar (newspaper)|Zamindar]] for one year during the imprisonment of [[Zafar Ali Khan]] and also wrote for ''Mansoor, [[Lahore]]''.<ref name="qawl" />

Najibabadi developed a stomach Illness in June 1937, which lead to his death on 10 May 1938.<ref name="qawl" />

==Literary works==
Najibabadi's works include:<ref name="qawl" />
* ''Tarikh-e-Islam'' (3-volumes)
* ''Tarikh-e-Najibabad''
* ''Jang-e-Angura''
* ''Nawab Ameer Khan''
* ''Gaay awr Uski Tarikhi Azmat''
* ''Ved awr Uski Qudamat''
* ''Hindu awr MusalmanoN ka ittefaq''
* ''Aaina Haqeeqat Numa''.<ref name="aaina" />

==References==
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[[Category:1875 births]]
[[Category:1938 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian Muslim historians of Islam]]

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