Saniyasnain Khan was born in 1959 in Azamgarh in India. After completing his post-graduation in Arabic from the University of Delhi, he began assisting his father, the noted Islamic scholar, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, in his research and publications.

In 1996, he founded Goodword Books, a publishing house, which has been widely acclaimed for its wide-ranging titles on Islamic subjects for both children and adults. Having felt the need to educate the young about the peaceful message of the religion of Islam, he began writing stories for children. His first book, Tell Me About Hajj (1998), was very well received throughout the Muslim world. His next publication, Tell Me About the Prophet Muhammad, has become a best-seller among the Islamic works currently available in English. Apart from the Tell Me About series, he has written several books for young minds based on stories from the Quran, which illustrate moral and ethical values.

He believes that as parents, it is our duty to instill love for the Almighty in our children. The basic theme of his books is to gradually teach moral principles through the Quran and other Islamic sources. In this way, children not only learn ethical values, but are also stimulated to study and learn more as they grow up. Thus these ideas, as a foundation, encourage them to seek out, at a later stage, a broader spectrum of resources with which to increase their knowledge.

To date Saniyasnain Khan has written over 100 books for children of which more than a million copies have been sold worldwide. Some of his books have been translated in French, German, Turkish, Dutch, Danish, Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, Malay, Bangla, etc. He now plans to bring out the books in Multimedia CD-Roms, which he hopes would be used by children and grown-ups alike.

See also,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saniyasnain_Khan
http://www.goodwordbooks.com/about_us.php