Abdul Bari Nadvi

Abdul Bari Nadvi (1886 – 30 January 1976) was an Indian Muslim scholar born in the Barabanki district near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

His father Hakim Abdul Khaliq was a student of Maulana Mohammad Naeem Farangi Mahli.

His younger brother Saad-ud-Din Ansari was among the founding members of the Jamia Millia Delhi and taught there for a long time.

He was well reputed as an established academic and writer in the disciplines of philosophy and theology and taught at Gujarat College in Ahmedabad, Dakkan College in Pune, and Osmania University in Hyderabad from where he retired as professor, having earlier served as Head of the Philosophy Department.

He wrote extensively on religion and philosophy and translated the works of numerous western philosophers and sociologists such as George Berkeley, David Hume, René Descartes, Dewey, Henri Bergson, William James, G. F. Stout, and John S. Mackenzie.