Dr. Saeedur Rahman Azmi Nadvi was adjudged the winner of the fifth IOS Lifetime Achievement Award last month, by the governing Council of the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS). The 78-year old Azmi is a known Arabic scholar and edits the Al-Baas Al-Islami, the Arabic journal from Nadwatul Uloom, Lucknow. He studied at Nadwa and later went to Iraq and Jamia Azhar in Cairo for higher studies. He has authored more than a dozen books in Urdu and Arabic.