Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi is a Professor at Aligarh Muslim University. He was Charles Wallace Fellow 2007, SOAS, London and Visiting Fellow, Maison Des  Sciences De L’Homme, Paris in 2008.

For three years (2017-20) he was the Chairman and Coordinator of the Centre for Advanced Studies in History and Coordinator, Musa Dakri Museum, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

He holds a PhD on the urban middle class in Mughal India from Aligarh Muslim University and his research interests focus on the history and archaeology of mediaeval India, and on the Mughal dynasty in particular. He is the author of Fathpur Sikri Revisited (Oxford, 2013), and History Through Archaeology (2019). He has edited a volume on the Deccan, and is in the process of editing volumes on Punjab and Kerala respectively. He is also editing volume VIII on the History of Seventeenth Century India as part of Comprehensive History of India Project. He has contributed chapters to books including Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval India (Oxford, 2009) and Religion in Indian History (Chennai, 2007) and authored almost 50 papers published in reputed journals. He has been the Secretary IHC (2023-26) and President of the Medieval India Section of the Indian History Congress during its 2013–2014 session, General President UP History Congress, 2018. He was also chosen Sectional President Bengal Itihas Sansad (2019) and Punjab Historical Conference (2017). Professor Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi is also a Fellow of the Shīʿah Institute since September 2013