A world-renowned scholar, principal of Al-Salam Institute and co-founder who received advanced in-depth training in the traditional Islamic disciplines at Nadwat al-‘Ulamā’, a PhD in Arabic Literature from Lucknow University and has extensive expertise in Ahadith. He is the author of Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam, a monumental 43-volume biographical dictionary which charts some of the significant contributions made by female Hadith scholars over the past 1400 years.