Dr Moin Nizami is the Tun Abdul Razak Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, where he also serves as the Fellow Librarian. He is a member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. Dr Nizami specialises in the study of social and intellectual history of Muslims in South Asia. His recent monograph titled Haji Imdadullah published by the Oxford University Press (2025) studies the role of migrant scholars in the transmission of religious learning between British India and the Ottoman Hijaz in the nineteenth century. It explores how Islamic learning, expressed through personal piety and broader collective reform efforts, shaped Imdadullah’s role as a religious and intellectual figure of his time.  He is also the author of Reform and Renewal in South Asian Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017) which examined the role of religious scholars and their networks in the revivalist upsurge of 18th-19th century and explained how their efforts defined religious and intellectual trends among South Asian Muslims. 

At the Centre, Dr Nizami is currently working on a collaborative research project, ‘Atlas of Social and Intellectual History of the Muslim World’ The Atlas Project | Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (oxcis.ac.uk), to be published by the Oxford University Press (New York). The Project has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Kuwait Foundation. He also co-edits the Journal of Islamic Studies (published by OUP).

Dr Nizami received his PhD degree in History from the University of Cambridge, where he was the Nehru Trust Scholar at Trinity College. He obtained his MA and BA (Honours) degrees from the Centre of Advanced Study in History at Aligarh Muslim University (India). 

Select Publications:

Haji Imadadullah (Oxford University Press, 2025) Haji Imdadullah - Moin Nizami - Oxford University Press

‘The Chishtis and cross-cultural Interactions in South Asia’, in N. Arif and A. Panakkal (eds.), South Asian Islam: A Spectrum of Integration and Indigenization (Routledge, 2023). South Asian Islam: A Spectrum of Integration and Indigenization - 1st (routledge.com)

‘Sufi order in 18th-19th century South Asia’, in David Ludden (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Asian History (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.364

Reform and Renewal in South Asian Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017) https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199469345.001.0001