Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi

Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi (1931 – November 2022) was an Indian economist and the winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies.

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.

Siddiqi was a prolific writer in Urdu and English. According to WorldCat, he has 63 works in 177 publications in 5 languages and 1,301 library holdings. Several of his works have been translated into Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, etc. Perhaps his most widely read book is ''Banking without interest'' which was published in 27 editions between 1973 and 2000 in 3 languages and is held by 220 libraries worldwide.

During his long academic career, he supervised a number of Ph.D. theses in the universities in India, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.

He was associated with a number of academic journals as editor or advisor. He served on numerous committees and participated in many conferences in various parts of the world. He was very helpful for all and shared his valuable knowledge in the society. He lived in Aligarh, India. He was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India. He served as the Chief Patron of the Indian Centre for Islamic Finance (ICIF), New Delhi.

Siddiqi died in California, USA in November 2022, at the age of 91. Provided by Wikipedia