Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi aka “Ali Miyan” (1914-1999) was an illustrious member of the family of Rae Bareli which is credited for producing intellectuals and writers for generations. Moulana Ali Miya was a great thinker, writer, educationist, social reformer, and an international traveller. He was very humble, modest, soft-spoken, tolerant, moderate and generous. He stood for mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, human values, establishing a social atmosphere based on tolerance and harmony in India and in the world at large. He earned our country good name for his services that were also internationally recognized. He served as the chairman of the board for the center of Islamic studies of the Oxford university and as a visiting professor in a number of international universities. In 1980, he received the Faisal International Award, followed by the Brunei Award and the UAE Award in 1999. He also received an honorary doctorate from Kashmir University on 29 October 1981.He will always be remembered for his efforts in fostering and promoting love and amity between different communities and sections of the society. He travelled around India to rebuild relations between communities on the terms of common moral values. He established a movement named “Payam-e- Insaniyat” (Message of Humanity) forum and toured along with his friends, comprising of people from different communities, to certain places where communal riots had erupted, to instill confidence among the victims and to bring the aggressors and wrongdoers to the right path.