diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/backrefs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/backrefs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2446f8379b04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/backrefs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  hatchling,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  regex,
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "backrefs";
+  version = "5.9";
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "facelessuser";
+    repo = "backrefs";
+    tag = version;
+    hash = "sha256-W75JLoBn990PoO3Ej3nb3BjOGm0c71o8hDDBUFWr8i4=";
+  };
+
+  build-system = [
+    hatchling
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "backrefs" ];
+
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    regex
+  ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Wrapper around re or regex that adds additional back references";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/facelessuser/backrefs";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/facelessuser/backrefs/releases/tag/${version}";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ drupol ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mkdocs-material/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mkdocs-material/default.nix
index e9c6dcaef2f0..f7ad8267ef8c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/mkdocs-material/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/mkdocs-material/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   lib,
   babel,
+  backrefs,
   buildPythonPackage,
   cairosvg,
   colorama,
@@ -20,7 +21,6 @@
   pillow,
   pygments,
   pymdown-extensions,
-  pythonOlder,
   regex,
   requests,
   trove-classifiers,
@@ -28,16 +28,14 @@
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "mkdocs-material";
-  version = "9.6.4";
+  version = "9.6.15";
   pyproject = true;
 
-  disabled = pythonOlder "3.7";
-
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "squidfunk";
     repo = "mkdocs-material";
     tag = version;
-    hash = "sha256-Di+m06LuS5mXzvmz8Cvby49HguUPbXEJf9PnR8fQ5jw=";
+    hash = "sha256-EksLvPl/VfGSufdqgWlQTd6kz07/pTIAOz7hMBdy8Ro=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -49,6 +47,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     babel
+    backrefs
     colorama
     jinja2
     markdown
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index afa1603bc669..4d46801cb4c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1635,6 +1635,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   backports-tarfile = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backports-tarfile { };
 
+  backrefs = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backrefs { };
+
   backtesting = callPackage ../development/python-modules/backtesting { };
 
   bacpypes = callPackage ../development/python-modules/bacpypes { };