Hazrat Maulana Yahya Nomani is an Islamic scholar, a spiritual leader, and author of various books on Islam. He is the grandson of the well-known scholar Hazrat Maulana Manzoor Nomani saheb and son of Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Zakariya sb Shiekh ul Hadith at Nadwat-ul-Ulema Lucknow. Maulana completed his Fazil course at Nadwa in 1993, and went abroad for bachelor’s course in Islamic History from Madinah University, after which he joined the monthly Al-Furqan, an Urdu religious magazine founded by his grandfather which is published from Lucknow. Besides working as an Associate Editor of this magazine, he holds regular Quranic classes in mosques and dawah camps for youth. He is founder of Al-Mahad Al-Ali Lil Dirasat Al-Islamiya (Institute for Higher Islamic Studies) in Lucknow, which provides a two-year course to madrasa graduates to, as he puts it, “make them aware of modern issues, concerns and challenges”. He is also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.