Nazmul Hoque Nadwi


Nazmul Hoque Nadwi is a Bangladeshi scholar of Islamic Studies and a professor at International Islamic University Chittagong. He is the former dean of Faculty of Shariah and Islamic Studies at the university and holds several other positions. He has written more than 70 research articles of which 43 papers have been published in international journals. He has written books on topics such as Arabic Language, Warfare of the Prophet Muhammad, Bengali Translations of the Qur'an, Najib Mahfuz's literary tendencies etc.

Career

Nazmul Hoque Nadwi has two bachelor's degrees, one in Hadith and one in Arabic. The latter was from Nadwatul Ulama University, India. He completed his Masters from Aligarh Muslim University on Arabic Literature. Then completed M.Phil at University of Dhaka on Modern Arabic Literature in 1998. He was awarded a Ph.D degree from the same university in Modern Arabic Fiction in 2003. He remained as a lecturer at Gazipur College for four years, before teaching at International Islamic University Chittagong till now.

Positions

Nazmul Hoque Nadwi delivered an address of welcome at "World Peace & Security: Role of Islam" an international conference at IIUC. He explained the predominance of the Qur'an and Islamic theological texts in Arabic literary expression in a seminar at Jamal Mohamed College. He was the only Bangladeshi invited to give a speech at the fourth international symposium of rethinking the Qur'an. He gave a speech on the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the National Mourning Day of Bangladesh.