Dr. Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi, an Indian economist who won the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1982, has passed away.
He was a prominent Urdu and English writer. He has 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings, according to WorldCat. Many of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, and other languages. Banking without Interest, which was published in 27 editions in three languages between 1973 and 2000 and is held by 220 libraries worldwide, is perhaps his most widely read book.
The deceased has served in many universities around the world.
He remained a professor at Aligarh Muslim University for a long time.
He was given King Faisal Award for his services in the field of Islamic Economics.
Formerly he was a member of the Central Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.
He was born in India in 1931 and educated at Aligarh Muslim University, as well as Rampur and Azamgarh. He was an associate professor of economics and an Islamic studies professor at Aligarh Muslim University, as well as an economics professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He later worked as a Fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research and Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah
He has supervised a number of Ph.D. theses at universities in India, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria over the course of his long academic career. He has been and continues to be an editor or advisor for a number of academic journals. He has served on numerous committees and attended numerous conferences around the world. He is very helpful to everyone and shares his valuable knowledge with the community. He was an Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at Aligarh Muslim University in India.
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