Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi

Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi (1921–94) was a modern historian of medieval India, mainly focused on history of Islam in South Asia.[1]

Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi
Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi
CitizenshipIndian
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsHistory

Education

Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi obtained his education in Agra and got a PhD and D. Litt. from Agra University.

Academic career

He started his career from Aligarh Muslim University. Rizvi was one of the favorite students of Professor Mohammad Habib, and like him, started his academic career by writing on Sufism.[2] He was later appointed as head of the history department, Jammu and Kashmir University, and was also appointed as Secretary of the History of the Freedom Movement by the government of 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.[3]

He joined the department of Asian Civilizations at the Australian National University, Canberra in 1967, where he served for the rest of his academic life. He was elected a fellow member of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 1969. In 1972, he also joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as a visiting faculty.[3]

Selected Works
Books Authored[1]
  • Fatḥpur-Sīkrī (20 editions published between 1972 and 2002 in English and Hindi).
  • A history of Sufism in India (14 editions published between 1978 and 2012 in English and Persian).
  • Muslim revivalist movements in northern India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (14 editions published between 1965 and 1995 in English).
  • Religious and intellectual history of the Muslims in Akbar's reign, with special reference to Abuʼl Fazl, 1556-1605 (8 editions published since 1975 in English).
  • The wonder that was India (15 editions published between 1987 and 2005 in English).
  • Shāh Walī-Allāh and his times: a study of eighteenth century Islām, politics, and society in India (14 editions published between 1980 and 2004 in English).
  • Shah Abd al-Aziz: puritanism, sectarian polemics and Jihad (first published in 1982 in English).
  • A socio-intellectual history of the Isnā ʼAsharī Shīʼīs in India (25 editions published since1986 in English and Persian).
  • Iran: royalty, religion and revolution (7 editions published since 1980 in English).
  • Landmarks of South Asian civilizations: from prehistory to the independence of the subcontinent (4 editions published since 1983 in English).
  • Freedom struggle in Uttar Pradesh; source-material by Uttar Pradesh (15 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in English).

References
  1. Worldcat (19 November 2020). "Saiyid Athar Abbas Rizvi".
  2. nadeemrezavi (2020-10-25). "Professor Saiyid Athar Abbās Rizvi: The Historian Par Excellence (1921-94)". ASHA: Blast From The Past. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  3. Rizvi, Saiyid Athar Abbas (1978). A History of Sufism in India, Vol. 1. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. cover page.
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