Allama Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi (Urdu

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: سید سلیمان ندوی) (November 22, 1884 - November 22, 1953) was an eminent Indian

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 and Pakistan

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i historian

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, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam

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. He is the author of monumental works, Sirat-un-Nabi

Sirat-un-Nabi

Sirat-un-Nabi is arguably one of the greatest and most authentic Sirah Rasul Allah of the Prophet Muhammad, written in Urdu by Shibli Nomani and his student, Syed Sulaiman Nadvi in 6 volumes....

(Life of Holy Prophet

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) and Khutbat-e-Madras.
Sulaiman Nadvi was born on November 22, 1884 in Desna village of Patna

Patna

Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

, British India. His father, Hakeem Sayyed Abul Hasan was a pious Sufi.

His first teachers were Khalifa Anwar Ali of Desna and Maulvi Maqsood Ali of Ookhdi.