Personal Profile About Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi
Allama Dr. Syed Zameer Akhtar Naqvi was also known as Zameer Hassan Naqvi. He was a Pakistani Shia scholar, orator, poet, author, journalist, and critic. He delivered over 10k majalis and bayanat on Islamic history. He wrote more than 300 books. Notable works include a two-volume biography of Qasim ibn Hasan, the five-volume Meraj-e-Khattabat, and books on Mir Anees and the marsiya tradition.
He was Chairman of Mir Anees Academy, President of the Islamic Scholastic Institute, Director of Markaz-e-Uloom-e-Islamia, and Editor of the quarterly magazine Al-Qalam. His personal library was acquired by the Library of Congress as the Naqvi Collection.
The Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi biography states that he was born on March 24, 1944, in Lucknow, British India. He completed a postgraduate degree in Lucknow and earned a PhD from Karachi. He migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, in 1967 and died of a cardiac arrest in 2020.