Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi FAHA (1921–1994) was a modern historian of medieval India, mainly focused on history of Islam in South Asia.
[1] Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi obtained his education from Agra University, where he earned his BA (1942), PhD (1949) and D.Litt.
Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi was born in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1921 to a family of Shia Muslim Zamindars.
He married his wife Nasim Zahra Rizvi, similarly from a Shi'ite family of Zamindars from Tajpur, Ambedkar Nagar District, Uttar Pradesh.
He worked as a research associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London between 1962-62 and was fellow in the same institution in the year 1969.