Mohammad Najatuallah Siddiqi


Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi is a world-renowned Islamic economist and is the winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies.
Born in Gorakhpur in 1931, he earned PhD in economics at Aligarh Muslim University and got rigorous training in Shariah Studies from Dars-e-Ghah Islami and Jamiatul Islah. He served as associate professor of economics and professor of Islamic studies at the Aligarh Muslim University and as professor of economics at the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in its Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He later became a Fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and after that a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research & Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah.
He is a prolific writer in Urdu and English. According to WorldCat, he has 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings. Several of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, etc. Perhaps his most widely read book is Banking without interest which was published in 27 editions between 1973 and 2000 in 3 languages and is held by 220 libraries worldwide.
During his long academic career, he has supervised a number of Ph.D. theses in the universities in India, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
He has been and continues to be associated with a number of academic journals as editor or advisor. He has served on numerous committees and participated in many conferences in various parts of the world. He is a very helpful for all and shares his valuable knowledge in the society. Presently he lives in Aligarh, India. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Works

In Urdu

Siddiqi has written at least eleven books in Urdu, Including:
He has written at least 10 books in English. His work in English has been published in over 100 editions.
His major works on Islamic banking have been written in English. Among them are :