New Delhi

Veteran Muslim scholar Maulana Rabey Hasani Nadwi and President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board, breathed his last on Thursday. He was 93.

Maulana Nadwi who was the chancellor of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, had been ailing for some time.  He was brought from Rae Bareli to Lucknow for treatment where he died at the Nadwa Madarsa in Daliganj.

He was born on October 1, 1929 at Takia Kalan, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh in the family of Rasheed Ahmad Hasani. He was a nephew of veteran author and reformer Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi.

Nadwi received primary education from his family maktab at Raebareli and joined Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama for higher studies. He graduated in 1957. He became Assistant Professor in Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow in 1952, head of its Arabic Department in 1955, and the Dean of Faculty of Arabic in 1970.

He received the Presidential Award for his contribution to Arabic language and literature.

Nadwi became Vice Chancellor of Nadwatul Ulama in 1993, Chancellor in 2000, and Rector after the death of Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi.

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He succeeded Mujahidul Islam Qasmi as the President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board.