Allamah Shibli Nomani was a respected scholar of Islam from Indian. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh. He is known for the founding the Shibli National College in 1883 and the Darul Mussanifin in Azamgarh. Shibli was a versatile scholar in Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Turkish and Urdu. He was also a poet. He collected much material on the life of Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Muhammad (P B U H) but could write only first two volumes of the planned work the Sirat-un-Nabi. His disciple, Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, made use of this material and added his own and wrote remaining five volumes of the work, the Sirat-un-Nabi after the death of his mentor. Allamah Shibli Nomani was died in November 18, 1914 at age of 57. Other books of Allamah Shibli Nomani are Sirat-un-Nabi, Sirat an-Nu'man, Al-Faruq, Al-Ma’mun, Al-Ghazali, Imam Ibn-e-Tamia (Edited by Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini ), Mawlana Rumi, Aurangzeb Alamgir Par Ek Nazar, Shir al-Ajam, a history of Persian poetry,"Ilm-Kalam", The best book on the history of Muslim theology, Safar Nama e Rome-o-Misr-o-Sham.