Maṭbaʻ-i Mujtabāʼī

Maṭbaʻ-i Mujtabāʼī (Urdu: المطبع المجتبائي) was a publishing house based in Delhi and Lucknow that flourished between the 1890s and 1930s. The press published a wide range of works in Arabic, Urdu and the Persian Language. It was among a number publishing houses that flourished at the time such as Nawal Kishore Press.



Notable publications include the sayings of Ḥaz̤rat Shāh ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq Aḥmad Ridaulvī who belonged to the Ṣābirī branch of the Chishti order. He was the third in this order after Ṣābir Kalerī and died in 1433-34 CE.

A number of the lithographs of the publishing house have been scanned and are available through several libraries, for example the Islamic Lithographs digital collection at McGill University Library. McGill has made some of the works available via the Internet Archive, for example the Laṭāʼif-i Quddūsī of ʻAbd al-Quddūs Gangūhī (1453-1537 CE). Another important source for the press is the online digital library of the Chughutai Public Library, Lahore.

One work from the press is also available from the Islamic Heritage Project at Harvard University.