By Muslim Mirror Desk
Dr. Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi, an Indian economist and the winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies has passed away in US.
Born in India in 1931, he was educated at Aligarh Muslim University as well as Rampur and Azamgarh. He served as Associate Professor of economics and Professor of Islamic studies at the Aligarh Muslim University and as Professor of economics at the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in its Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He later became a Fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and after that a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research & Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah. He was a prolific writer in Urdu and English with 63 works in 177 publications and 1301 library holdings to his credit. Several of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Thai languages. He was also the recipient of the Shah Waliullah Award in New Delhi for contributions to Islamic Economics.
Some of his notable books are Recent Theories of Profit: A Critical Examination, Economic Enterprise in Islam, Muslim Economic Thinking,
Banking Without Interest, Partnership and profit-sharing in Islamic law, Insurance in an Islamic Economy, Teaching Economics from in Islamic Perspective, Role of the State in Islamic Economy, Dialogue in Islamic Economics, and Islam’s View on Property.
He was a prominent Urdu and English writer. He has 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings, according to WorldCat. Many of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, and other languages. Banking without Interest, which was published in 27 editions in three languages between 1973 and 2000 and is held by 220 libraries worldwide, is perhaps his most widely read book.
The deceased has served in many universities around the world. He remained a professor at Aligarh Muslim University for a long time.He was given King Faisal Award for his services in the field of Islamic Economics.
He was a member of the Central Council of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He was born in Gorakhpur district in 1931 and educated at Aligarh Muslim University, as well as Rampur and Azamgarh. He was an associate professor of economics and an Islamic studies professor at Aligarh Muslim University, as well as an economics professor at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the Center for Research in Islamic Economics. He later worked as a Fellow at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as a visiting scholar at the Islamic Research and Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah.
He has supervised a number of Ph.D. theses at universities in India, Saudi Arabia, and Nigeria over the course of his long academic career. He has been and continues to be an editor or advisor for a number of academic journals. He has served on numerous committees and attended numerous conferences around the world. He was an Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at Aligarh Muslim University in India.