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{{short description|Indian Islamic scholar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox religious biography
|religion= [[Islam]]
|honorific_prefix = {{small|[[Maulana]]}}
|name = Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
|title =
|birth_date = 1908
|birth_place = [[Agra]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]], [[British Raj|British India]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1985|05|24|1908}}
|death_place = [[Karachi]], [[Sindh]], [[Pakistan]]
|father =
|region = [[India]]
|denomination = [[Sunni]]
|jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]]
|movement = [[Deobandi]]
|main_interests = [[Urdu literature]], [[History]], [[Seerah]]
|notable_works = ''Fehm-e-Quran'', ''Ghulaman-e-Islam'', ''Siddiq-e-Akbar'', ''Wahi Ilahi''
|alma_mater = [[Madrasa Shahi, Moradabad]], [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[Oriental College|Oriental College, Lahore]], [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]]
|influences = [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]]
|founder = [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]]
}}
'''Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi''' (1908 – 24 May 1985) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] Sunni Islamic scholar, [[Urdu]]-language author who co-founded [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]]. He was the dean professor of the [[Faculty of Theology, Aligarh Muslim University]].

Born in 1908 in [[Agra]], Akbarabadi was an alumnus of [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi]], [[Darul Uloom Deoband]], [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] and the [[Oriental College]], Lahore. He taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin]], Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri, [[Aligarh Muslim University]], [[University of Calicut]] and [[McGill University]]. Akbarabadi retired as the dean professor of Theology faculty at Aligarh. He authored books including ''Fehm-e-Quran'', ''Ghulaman-e-Islam'', ''Siddiq-e-Akbar'' and ''Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal''. He died on 24 May 1985 in [[Karachi]].

==Birth and education==
Saeed Akbarabadi was born in the [[colonial India]]n city of [[Agra]] in 1908.<ref name="history">{{cite book |author1=[[Syed Mehboob Rizwi]] |translator=Prof. Murtaz Husain F. Quraishi |title=History of The Dar al-Ulum Deoband (Volume 2) |publisher=Idara-e-Ehtemam, [[Darul Uloom Deoband|Dar al-Ulum Deoband]] |page=112|edition=1981 |url=https://archive.org/download/2VolumeBookOnTheHistoryOfDarAlUlumDeoband/HistoryOfTheDarulUloomDeoband-VolumeTwo1981.pdf |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref><ref name="nida0">{{cite book |author1=Mufti Ubaid Anwar Shah Qaiser |title=Nida'e Darul Uloom Waqf |publisher=[[Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband]] |pages=49–53 |edition=Rabi-ut-Thaani, 1438|chapter=Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ek Sahib-e-Qalam Shakhsiyat |language=ur}}</ref> He studied his primary classes at home, then he studied in [[Jamia Qasmia Madrasa Shahi]], and later graduated from the [[Darul Uloom Deoband]]. There he studied under [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], [[Shabbir Ahmad Usmani]] and Ibrahim Balyawi.<ref name="nida0"/> He then undertook specialist courses at [[Oriental College|Oriental College, Lahore]]. During the period, Akbarabadi was appointed as a teacher of oriental languages in Madrasa-e-Aaliya, Fatehpuri. He gained a [[Master of Arts]] degree in Arabic from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]].<ref name="history" />

==Career==
After completing studies at [[Oriental College|Oriental College, Lahore]], Akbarabadi taught at [[Jamia Islamia Talimuddin, Dabhel]]. He then taught oriental languages in Madrassa-e-Aalia, Fatehpuri. After completing his [[Master of Arts|M.A]] from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]], he became a lecturer in the same college. In the meantime [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] (Former President of Pakistan) became his student.<ref name="nida0"/> In 1938, Akbarabadi established [[Nadwatul Musannifeen]] along with [[Atiqur Rahman Usmani]], [[Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi]] and [[Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Nayab Hasan Qasmi |title=[[Darul Uloom Deoband]] Ka Sahafati ManzarNama |publisher=Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, [[Deoband]] |pages=176, 198}}</ref> In 1949, he became Principal of the Madrassa-e-Aliya, Calcutta.

In 1958, Akbarabadi became the Dean of the Faculty of Theology in the [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. He transformed a weak faculty and introduced graduate teaching and a doctoral programme.<ref name="history" /> He supervised his (and the Faculty’s) first doctoral thesis, on [[Anwar Shah Kashmiri]], which was later published by [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1974.<ref name="nida0" />

During 1962 and 1963, Akbarabadi was a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Islamic Studies at [[McGill University]] in [[Canada]]. After his retirement from [[Aligarh Muslim University|AMU]] in 1972, he joined an Islamic institute of Hamdard in Tughlaqabad for four years.

After that, he was a Visiting Professor at the [[University of Calicut]] and then at [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. [[Darul Uloom Deoband]] then made him Director of its new research department, Shaikhul Hind Academy, a post he held from 25 December 1982 until his death on 24 May 1985.<ref name="nida0"/>

==Literary works==
Akbarabadi wrote books including:<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile of Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi on WorldCat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84031364/ |publisher=[[WorldCat]] |access-date=2 January 2021}}</ref>
*''Al-riq fi al-Islam''
*''Fehm-e-Quran''
*''Ghulaman-e-Islam''
* ''Hindustan ki shar'i haisiyat''
* ''Hind Pak̄istān kī taḥrīk-i āzādī aur ʻulamāʼe ḥaqq kā siyāsī muʼaqqaf''
* ''K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i Iqbāl par ek naẓar''
*''Musalmano Ka Urooj-o-Zawal''
*''Siddiq-e-Akbar''
*''Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi aur unke Naaqid''
*''Uthman Zinnurayn''
*''Wahi Ilahi''

==Legacy==
Studies of Akbarabadi include:<ref name="nida0"/>
*''Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Ahwaal-Aasaar'' by Dr Masood Alam Qasmi
*''Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi: Hayat-o-Khidmat'' by Dr Qaiser Habeeb Hashmi
*''Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi aur unki Adbi Khidmat'' by Miss Jahan Ara (Thesis submitted in [[Punjab University, Lahore]]).

==See also==
* [[Syed Mehboob Rizwi]]
* [[Muhammad Taqi Amini]]

==References==
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