Bastawi is the founder and president of Ma'had-ush-Shariah in Lucknow and has authored and translated several notable works in Urdu on Islamic jurisprudence and theology.
Ateeque Ahmad Bastawi was born on January 25, 1954, in Basti, a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
[10][11] Since February 2020, he has also been serving as the Secretary of the Fiqh Institute, Majlis-e-Tahqiqat-e-Shariah, at Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow.
[13] He has translated several Arabic and Persian books, including the Urdu translation of Jamaluddin Atiyyah's Al-Tanzir Al-Fiqhi as Fiqh-e-Islami Ki Nazariyah Sazi, Atiyya's Al-Nazariyah Al-Ammah Lil-Shariah Al-Islamiyyah as Islami Shariat Ka Amoodi Nazariyah, and Syed Muhammad Zahir Hasani's Persian book Khair-ul-Masālik into Urdu.
Similarly, he has published various books with his research and annotations, including Şihabetdin Märcani's Nāzūratul Haqq fi Fardiyyatil Isha Wa In Lam Yaghb Al-Shafaq,[14][9] Rahmatullah Kairanawi's Izālat Al-Shukūk (in four volumes),[15] and Ashraf Ali Thanwi's Al-Hīlah An-Nājizah.