ʿAbd al-Nabī (d. 991/1583) jurist, proponent of iṣlāḥ (traditionalist reform), and Ṣadr al-ṣudūr (highest religious official) of the Mughal empire for eight years under the emperor Akbar.

He was a descendant of ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangūhī (q.v.), the well-known Indian Ḥanafī Sufi, whose family were considered descendants of Abū Ḥanīfa (Badāʾūnī, 3/81; Shāhnawāz Khān, 2/560), which is why he was known as al-Nuʿmānī (Kaukab, 262–263; Hidāyat Ḥusayn, 2/146). He was born and brought up in Gangūh and…