diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/adal/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/adal/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..982e63882ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/adal/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi
+, requests, pyjwt }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "adal";
+  version = "0.1.0";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1f32k18ck54adqlgvh6fjhy4yavcyrwy813prjyqppqqq4bn1a09";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs =  [ requests pyjwt ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Library to make it easy for python application to authenticate to Azure Active Directory (AAD) in order to access AAD protected web resources";
+    homepage = https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ phreedom ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index af1ab819b12..6d81ec98a18 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -274,24 +274,7 @@ in {
 
   actdiag = callPackage ../development/python-modules/actdiag { };
 
-  adal = buildPythonPackage rec {
-    version = "0.1.0";
-    name = "adal-${version}";
-
-    src = pkgs.fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://pypi/a/adal/adal-0.1.0.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "1f32k18ck54adqlgvh6fjhy4yavcyrwy813prjyqppqqq4bn1a09";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ requests pyjwt ];
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Library to make it easy for python application to authenticate to Azure Active Directory (AAD) in order to access AAD protected web resources";
-      homepage = https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-python;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ phreedom ];
-    };
-  };
+  adal = callPackage ../development/python-modules/adal { };
 
   afew = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "afew-git-2017-02-08";