Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is the distinguished author of over 100 books in English and Urdu, including 40 books on Sufism, 20 books on Islam and 10 books on theology. He has been the Imam of the famous Jamia Masjid Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotwi, Hyderabad since 1984. Maulana Wahiduddin has been a member of the Central Advisory Committee of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board since 1983. He is also a member of the International Islamic Society for Da'wah and Relief (semi-religious body)
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Maulana Wahiduddin was born in 1928 in Karachi, Pakistan. He received his early education from various madrasahs in Karachi and then at Darul Uloom Deoband in India between 1950 and 1953. In 1954 he was called to serve as a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband where he remained until 1963.
In 1959 he received his Masters degree in Islamic Studies from Aligarh Muslim University in Lucknow, India. He became a member of the Council of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and in 1972 he joined the All India Muslim Personal Law Board as its Vice-Chairman where he served until 1977.