Abidullah Ansari Ghazi (Hindi: अबिदुल्लाह ग़ाज़ी) (6 July 1936 – 11 April 2021) was an Indian American author, educator and poet.

"[4] Abidullah Ghazi was born in the northern Indian town of Ambehta Saharanpur district on 6 July 1936.

[6] Abidullah Ghazi founded Iqra' International Educational Foundation, in Skokie, Illinois, US in 1983 as a community project to teach American Muslim children about their faith.

He and his wife, Tasneema Ghazi, were born in India, came to the United States for further studies and to earn higher degrees.

[3][7] It was while working on a project dealing with the ulama of India that he was brought to the attention of Professor Wilfred Cantwell Smith, who was the founder and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School.