Mohammad Akram Nadwi (born c. 1963)[3] is a British Islamic scholar and the Dean of Cambridge Islamic College, principal of Al-Salam Institute,[4] and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.

[5][6][7] He is the author of the 43 volume biographical dictionary called Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa (Biographical Dictionary of Women Narrators of Hadith), which chronicles the lives of 10,000 female hadith scholars and narrators.

[8][9] Nadwi was educated at the Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, India.

In 2021, his 43-volume biographical dictionary of the muhaddithat, the female scholars and narrators of hadith was published by Dar al-Minhaj (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia).

Nadwi is the subject of the 2015 book If The Oceans Were Ink by journalist Carla Power.