Curriculum Vitae Areas of specialization Professor Abdur Raheem Kidwai Academic Qualifications: Academic Positions and Experience:

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1 Curriculum Vitae Areas of specialization Many years of experience in the following areas: Translation (English/Urdu and Urdu/English) English Literature English Language Teaching Staff Development (In-Service Professional Development of University/College Teachers) Academic Writing and Journal Editing Ph.D. Supervision Syllabus Designing Name : Professor Abdur Raheem Kidwai Date of Birth : 21/10/1956 Nationality : Indian Address (Res.): 4/873, New Friends Colony, Aligarh , U.P, India Address (Work): Director, UGC Academic Staff College, and Professor, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (UP) INDIA sulaim_05@yahoo.co.in Tel. No (Res.) : Tel No. (Off) : Mobile : Academic Qualifications: MA, M.Phil, Ph.D in English Literature from Aligarh Muslim University 2 nd Ph.D in English on Lord Byron s Turkish Tales under the supervision of Professor Vincent Newey from the University of Leicester, UK in Advanced Certificate in Teaching of English as a Foreign Language from Aston University, UK Academic Positions and Experience: Honorary Visiting Professor/ Fellow, Department of English, University of Leicester (from April 2006 to 31 December 2016) Director, Academic Staff College, Aligarh Muslim University since 2001 continued. Professor, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University from 1997 continued. Reader/Lecturer Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University from 1978 to 1997.

2 Registrar, AMU (April 2000 May 2000). Publications: Books: (On English and Urdu Literature) 1. Criticism and Counter Criticism, Edited by Abdur Raheem Kidwai and Asim Siddiqui, New Delhi, Viva Books, The Holy and the Unholy: Edited by Abdur Raheem Kidwai and Asim Siddiqui Critical Essays on Qaisra Shahraz s Novels, Delhi, Sarup & Sons, Literary Orientalism: A Companion, New Delhi, Viva Books, Behind the Veil: Representation of Muslim Woman in Indian Writings in English APH, New Delhi 2007 (Edited Volume). 5. Stranger than Fiction: Image of Islam/Muslims in English Fiction, APH, New Delhi, 2000 (Edited Volume). 6. The Crescent and the Cross: Image of the Orient in English Literature, Aligarh Muslim University, Orientalism in Lord Byron s Turkish Tales, US/UK, Lewiston/Lampeter Mellen University Press, Jalwa-i Danish-i Firang: Iqbal par Angrezi Tanqidi Mazamin ka Urdu Tarjuma (Urdu translation of select English articles on Iqbal s art and craft), Aligarh, Books: (On Islam/Higher Education/Indian Muslims) 1. What is in the Quran? Message of the Quran in Simple English, New Delhi, Viva Books, National Integration Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, Empowerment of Indian Muslims: Perspectives, Planning and Road Ahead. Edited Volume. Editors: A. R. Kidwai and Asmer Beg. New Delhi, Concept Publishing Company, Translating the Untranslatable: A Critical Guide to 60 English Translations of the Quran, New Delhi, Sarup Publishers, Higher Education: Issues and Challenges, Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, Essential Teachings of the Quran Leicester, Islamic Foundation, UK Also published by Jaico, Mumbai, Sayings of Prophet Muhammad, published by Jaico, Mumbai, Bibliography of the Translations of the Meaning of the Glorious Quran into English Madina, Saudi Arabia, King Fahad Quran Printing Complex, Bibliojarafia Tarjumat Ma ani al-quran al-karim. Arabic version of the above brought out by the same publisher in Daily Wisdom: Selections from the Quran. Leicester, Islamic Foundation, UK Daily Wisdom: Selections from the Hadith. Leicester, Islamic Foundation, UK Daily Wisdom: Selections from Prayers and Supplications. Leicester, Islamic Foundation, UK From Darkness into Faith: Like and Works of Mawlana Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Springs, South Africa, Ahsan Publication, 2013, 304 pages. 2

3 Sayings of the Quran, published by Jaico, Mumbai, New Directions in Higher Education, Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, Special Issue of Jamia Millia Islamia Urdu Journal, Islam awr Asr Jadid, 45:1 (January October 2013, of 128 pages contains a collection of my articles in Urdu on the translations of the Quran. 17. Mustashreqeen Aur Angrezi Tarajim-e-Quran (Professor Abdur Raheem Qidwai ke Mazamen). Edited by Professor Akhtarul Wasey. New Delhi. Al-Balagh Publication, Blessed Names and Attributes of Allah, Leicester, UK, Kube Publication, 2016, 123 pages, ISBN: Blessed Names and Characteristics of Prophet Muhammad, Leicester, UK, Kube Publication, 2016, 109 pages, ISBN: Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of Islam and Muslims, New Delhi, Viva Books, 2016, 282 pages, ISBN: Believing and Belonging: Critical Essays on British Muslim Fiction, Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, 2016, 146 pages, ISBN: Journey of Faith: Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi. Edited by Akhtarul Wasey and Abdur Raheem Kidwai, New Delhi, Shipra Publication, Pp: 160, ISBN No: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Muslim Renaissance Man of India; A Bicentenary Commemorative Volume. Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, 2016, Pp. 338, ISBN: Articles/Notes/Book Reviews: Around 190 in English and Urdu on English and Urdu literature, Islam and the English Translations of the Quran in the Byron Journal, Notes and Queries, Muslim World Book Review, Islamic Studies, Insights, Journal of Quranic Research and studies, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Journal of English Studies and other periodicals. Article on British Romantic Women Poets in Literature and Authenticity Edited by Ashley Chantler et al. London, Ashgate, 2011, pp Member, Editorial Board: o Islamic Quarterly, London. o Islamic Studies, Islamabad o Islamic Muallim, Mumbai. o Hamdard Islamicus, Karachi. o Insights, Islamabad o Fikr wa Nazar, Aligarh o Tahzibul Akhlaq, Aligarh Academic Distinctions: Commonwealth Fellow, UK (October March 2006) 3

4 Two Major Research Projects by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India on English Literature. Delivered lectures on Literary Orientalism and Higher Education at the Universities of Mauritius, Wolverhampton, Oxford, Sunderland and Leicester. Member of the UGC Academic Advisory Committees of several Academic Staff Colleges of JNU, Osmania, MANUU, JMI, Nagpur, Muzaffarpur, Sonepat, Lucknow and Ajmer Universities. Member of the Selection Committees of Teaching positions (English) at MANNU, Hyderabad, University of Kashmir, JMI, New Delhi, University of Rohailkhand and Aligarh Muslim University. Delivered a paper Recontextualization of Muslim Society and Modernity in Qaisra Shahraz s The Holy Women (2001) at the International Post Colonialism and Islam Conference at the University of Sunderland, UK on 16 April Advisor, Union Public Service Commission, New Delhi Ph.D. Examiners of IIT, Jammu, Indore, Agra, Rohilkhand, Allahabad, Raipur and Garhwal Universities Delivered lectures as Resource Person (English) at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, MANUU, Hyderabad, BPS Women s University, Sonepat Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Gorakhpur Universities. Appointed Member expert committee by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. Of India for the restructuring of the Commission for Linguistic Minorities, New Delhi (December 2015). Ph.D./M.Phil. Supervision Until June 2016, Eighteen (18) students under my supervision have been awarded Ph.D./M.Phil. Degrees. 4

5 Academic Work 2010 Delivered Keynote Address at National Conference on English Studies at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad on 23 March Published as New Perspectives in Non-Native Literatures in English in Maulana Azad Journal of English Language and Literature MAJELL, 2:2 (September 2010), pp ISSN: Delivered Invited Lectures at the Translation Workshops organized by National Translation Mission, CIL, Mysore at JIM, Delhi and AMU Aligarh in August and October Delivered Invited Lecture on Literature and Spirituality at the National seminar on Spiritual Psychology organized by the Dept. of Psychology on 29 October Delivered Keynote Address, Representation of Muslim Woman: From the Stereotype to the New Version at the National seminar on Gender Issue at the Dept. of English, Hamidia Degree College, Allahabad (UP) on November Academic Work 2011 Paper presented at International Seminar on Sirah organized by International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan on March Delivered Invited Lecture on Post-Modernism: Dimensions and Challenges at the International Seminar on 5 March 2011 at S.V. College, Aligarh. Delivered a lecture on Literary Orientalism at the Dept. of English, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK on 7 June Delivered a lecture on Internationalization of Education at the Institute of Learning Enhancement, University of Wolverhampton, UK on 9 June Delivered a lecture on the English Translations of the Quran at St. Peters College, University of Oxford on 28 June Delivered a paper on Literary Orientalism: Main Contours and Tends in the International Conference on Islam and English in India: Cultural, Literary, Pedagogic, Historical, Political and Philosophical Encounters organized by the Department of English, under the UGC-DSA Programme, held on 6 th, 7 th and 8 th September 2011 at the University of Hyderabad. Delivered the Key Note Address at the National Seminar on Literature and the Subconscious at the Karim City College, Jharkhand, on 20 December Academic Work 2012 Delivered lectures on the English Language Teaching and Study of English Literature in Bahrain from 6 January to 10 January 2012 at the Indian Schools in Bahrain. Two of my Ph.D. students awarded Ph.D. in English in February So far more than a dozen Ph.D. students under my supervision have earned Ph.D. in English. Chaired a session of the International Seminar on Muslim Education on 18 March 2012 at Jamia Islamia, Bhatkal, Karnataka. Chaired a session of the National Seminar on Issues and Challenges in Translation, March 2012, at the Department of English, AMU, Aligarh under the UGC- DRS Programme, Phase-I. 5

6 Appointed Editorial Advisor of the journal Literary Perspectives, Lucknow, India (ISSN: ) The title and status of Honorary Visiting Fellow conferred upon by me by the School of English, University of Leicester, UK ( ). Appointed in Member of the UGC Academic Advisory Committee of the UGC Academic Staff Colleges of 1) BPS Women s University, Sonepat, Haryana. 2) University of Lucknow, UP and 3) MANNU, Hyderabad, AP. Chaired a session of the National Seminar on Sir Syed on 01 October 2012 organized by Idara Tahzibul Akhlaq, AMU Aligarh. Published the paper Bain al-mazhabi Ifham awr Tafhim ke Bab mein Sir Syed ki Awwaliyat in Tahzibul Akhlaq, special Number on Sir Syed, 31: 10 (October 2012), pp Delivered lectures on Higher Education as Resource Person at the UGC Academic Staff College, BPS Women s University, Sonepat in November Delivered Speech at the Gandhi Jayanti celebrations organized by the AMU on 02 October Delivered Speech on Sir Syed at the Founder s Commemoration Meeting at the AMU on 17 October Chaired a session and delivered the paper Angrezi Tarajim-i Quran Majid at the Quran Seminar organized by Idara Ulum al-quran, Aligarh on 21 October Delivered the Inaugural Address at the Workshop on the Assessment and Evaluation of SLM in open and Distance Learning Centre for Distance Education, AMU Aligarh on 11 April Delivered the Key note address at National Testing Service (NTS) organized by the Dept. of Linguistics, AMU in August 2012 as Invited Speaker. Delivered the Plenary Address on Literary Orientalism at the International Conference organized by the EFLU Hyderabad on November 19, Chaired a session on the National Seminar on Sir Syed organized by Tahzibul Akhlaq, AMU, Aligarh on 1 st October Delivered a talk on Iqbal at the Urdu Day organized by the AMU Polytechnic on 22 November Contributed a paper on Dr. Ubaidullah Fahad s Khuda Ki Basti Mein at a programme organized by the Dept of Islamic Studies, AMU on 21 November Served as Observer for assessing MESCO Personality Development Workshop November 2012 organized by the AMU. Published the article Istimari Fikr ki Rawayat Angrezi Adab mein in Urdu in the Journal Danish, special issue on Post Colonial Studies Faculty of Arts, AMU in Pp Published the article Quran Majid awr Mustashariqin in Tahzibul Akhlaq, special issue No.1 on the Quran, May 2012, pp Published the Urdu article Haliya Angrezi Tarajim-Quran: Ek Tanqidi Jaiza in the Special Issue on the Quran No. 2 on the Quran of Tahzibul Akhlaq, AMU in August 2012, pp

7 Delivered two lectures as Resource Person on 1) The Higher Education in India and the UK and 2) Study of Literature at the Orientation Programme at the BSP Women s University, Sonepat, Haryana on 24 November Published the Urdu article Bedil Bergson ki Roshni mein in Fikr wa Nazar 49:2 (June 2012), pp Delivered Presidential Address at the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Teacher Education at al-barakat Institute of Education, Aligarh on 2 February Published the Urdu article, Dr Salamatullah Khan in Tahzib al-akhlaq; Mashahir-i Aligarh Special Issue. Vol. 1 (February 2013), pp Invited Speaker at the Translators Orientation Programme organized by the National Translation Mission, and the Department of Translation, MANUU, Hyderabad, CIL, Mysore on 20 February 2013 in Hyderabad. Book Review on Frederick Quinn s The Sum of All Heresies: The Image of Islam in Western Thought published in Insights, Islamabad, Pakistan, 3:1 (Autumn 2010), pp Appointed Member, Advisory Board of the International Journal 3600 Management Rrview, BPS Women s University, Sonepat, Haryana. Chaired the Special Lecture on Islam and Budhhism at the Department of Sunni Theology, AMU on 21 March Chaired a session of the National Seminar on Literary, Cultural and Historical Paradigms: Revisiting Translation Studies in India organized by the Department of English, AMU, Aligarh on 23 March Delivered 2 Lectures on the New Areas of English Studies at the SRC in English organized by the UGC Academic Staff College, BPS Women s University, Sonepat, Haryana on 19 February Academic Work 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 Delivered a talk on Dr Tawqir Alam Falahi s book on Sir Syed on 4 April 2013 at the Department of Sunni Theology, AMU. Contributed Foreword to the volume of critical studies, Contemporary Indian Women Novelists: edited by Dr N.D. R. Chandra and Dr. K.K. Vishwakarma, Lucknow, in April Delivered the Inaugural Address at the Seminar on Tipu Sultan on 3 May 2013 organized by the SA Forum, Aligarh. Delivered lectures on Higher Education as part of the OP at BPS Women s University, Sonepat on 11 May Member UGC Expert Committee on the ASCs allocation of courses (April 2013). Member, Selection Committee for the teaching positions in the Department of English, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K on 16 April Appointed Editorial Advisor of the English literary journal Insignia, Jamshedpur, India in May

8 Delivered 2 lectures each on Teachers Professional Development at al- Barkaat Senior Secondary School, Aligarh and at Ayesha Tarin Senior Secondary School, Aligarh on 13 May 2013 and 20 May 2013 respectively. Paper on Thomas Carlyle s Orientalism accepted for the International Conference on Orientalism at the University of Catania, Ragusa Ibla, Sicily on June Paper on the noted English/Urdu literary critic, Professor Asloob Ahmad Ansari at the function organized by the Urdu Academy, Delhi State Govt. at Aligarh on 25 May Delivered the Invited Lectures on Academic Writing as part of the ICCSR Capacity Building Training Programme at the UGC Academic Staff College, University of Indore, MP on 28 May Published the article Inter Faith Dialogue: Some Strategies in Inter Faith Dialogue: An Indian Perspective edited by Asad Mirza and Waris Mazhari. Delhi, MILAP, 2013, pp Delivered the Invited Lectures on Academic Writing at the ICCSR sponsored Capacity Building Workshop on 10 June 2013 at the UGC Academic Staff College, AMU, Aligarh. Delivered the Professor M. Mujeeb Memorial Lecture on Recent Trends in the English Translations of the Quran at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on 30 October Appointed External Expert for the Selection Board of the Department of English, Mawlana Bhashani University, Santosh, Tangail, Bangladesh in September Review on Vision of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe by Andrei Pippidi, Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK, 33: 4 Summer 2013, Review on Wahiduddin Khan. The Quran: Translation and Commentary. Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK, 33: 3 Spring 2013, Review on Meaning of the Magnificent Quran by Muhammad Sharif Chaudhary. Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK, 33: 4 Summer 2013, Review on Islamic Resurgence: Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi and His Contemporaries and Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi by Abdul Kader Choughley. Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK, 33: 4 Summer 2013, Review on How to Read the Quran: A New Guide by Carl W. Ernst and The Quran: Modern Muslim Interpretations by Massimo Campanini in The Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford, UK, 24 (October 2013), pp Review Article, Undisciplined, Untutored and Unreasonable Readings of the Revealed Text: Some Recent English Translations (By Assad Nimer Busool, Tahirul Qadri and Talal Itani) in the Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK, 34:1 Autumn 2013,

9 Urdu Article Angrezi Tarijim-i Quran Majid: Istifade ka Tariqa in Ruju ila al-quran: Ahmiyat awr Taqaze. Edited by Ashhad Rafiq Nadwi. Aligarh, Idara Ulum al-quran, 2013, pp Urdu Paper Ruju ila al-quran ki Ek Nadir awr Khushgawar Mithal at the Quran Seminar on October 2013 at Idara Ulum al-quran, Aligarh. Delivered 2 lectures as Resource person at the OP at the UGC Academic Staff College, BPS Women s University, Sonepat on 22 November Delivered the Keynote Speech at the XIV Annual Conference National Seminar of the All India Association of Teacher Educators on Teaching as a Profession at B.D. Kanya Mahavidalaya, Agra on 16 December Organized and delivered talks at the National Seminar on National Integration organized by the UGC Academic Staff College, AMU Aligarh in collaboration with the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, New Delhi on 15 December 2013 at the UGC Academic Staff College, AMU Aligarh. Appointed Member, Board of Management, Sir Syed Academy, AMU for two years on 08 November Editor, Annual Report, AMU, Aligarh Publications/Seminars/Academic Distinction 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 Special Issue of Jamia Millia Islamia Urdu Journal, Islam awr Asr Jadid, 45:1 (January October 2013, of 128 pages contains a collection of my articles in Urdu on the translations of the Quran (the issue came out in May 2014). 365 Sayings of the Quran, published by Jaico, Mumbai, 2014 New Directions in Higher Education:, Edited Volume, New Delhi, Viva Books, Delivered the Invited Lecture at the School of English, University of Leicester, UK on 07 May 2014 on the topic: Representation of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in English Literature. Delivered the Seminar Lecture at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Markfield, UK on 14 May 2014 on the topic: Representation of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in English Literature. Appointed external expert for the evaluation of the published work by the faculty of Princess Nora University, Saudi Arabia. Book review on Qaisra Shahraz s Revolt published in the Asiatic, Malaysia 8:1, June 2014, pp

10 Book review on Geoffrey Nash s Postcolonialism and Islam: Theory, Literature, Society, Culture and Film in the Muslim World Book Review, UK, 344, Summer 2014, pp Urdu Article, Judge Murphey ka Qubul Islam in Tehzibul Akhlaq, Aligarh, 33:7, July 2014, pp Review on my Urdu Book, Jalwa Danish-e Firang in Mahmud Hasan Allahabadi s Maqalat-e Mahmud, Bhiwandi, Mahrashtra, 2014, pp Article on my English translation of the Quran, New English Translations of the Holy Qur an: A Brief Comparative Analysis of Peachy and Al- Johan s and Kidwai s Translation published in Hazara Islamicus, Hazara University, Pakistan, 30:1, Jan-June 2014, pp Review on the special issue of Islam awr Asr-Jadid, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi containing exclusively my articles, published in the journal, Ilm wa Adab by Sultan Ahmad Islahi (April-June 2014) pp Delivered the invited talk on Critical Theory at the National Seminar organized by the Department of English, University of Allahabad on 20 January Delivered the Keynote address on Building a Learning Organization at the Gulf region CBSE Schools Principals in Bahrain on 23 January Delivered the Keynote Address as Chief Guest at the Govt PG College, Jalesar, on 12 March 2015 Delivered lectures on Academic Writing as Resource Person at the ICCSR Workshop organized by the Department of Education, University of Lucknow on 26 March Delivered two lectures as Resource Person on Textual Travels at the UGC Academic Staff College SRC in English at the Jadavpur University, Kolkata on 31 January Academic Work 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 Delivered Seminar Lecture on the British Novelist, Qaisra Shahraz s Art and Craft at the Department of English, University of Sunderland, UK on 06 May

11 Delivered a talk on the AMU: Road to Progress at the UK Alumni Association, London on 30 May Delivered the Keynote Address as Chief Guest at the National Seminar at Gagan Group of Colleges, Aligarh on 4 April Conducted Ph.D viva voce at the Department of English, Govt. PG. College, and University of Indore on 19 June Article on my Urdu book on the Quran and the Orientalists published in Tehzibul Akhlaq, 34:5 May 2015, by Dr. Ziauddin Falahi entitled Quran Kareem ke Engrezi Trajim per ek haliya mutala: Professor Abdur Raheem Kidwai ki khidmat ka taaruf pp My autobiographical piece published in Shaista Khan s Azadi Ke Bad Aligarh Ke Danishwar Ki Soch, Aligarh, Maulana Azad Library, 2013 pp Delivered lectures at the Workshop on Humanities at the UGC HRDC, University of Kashmir on 07 and 08 September Appointed Member expert committee by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, Govt. Of India for the restructuring of the Commission for Linguistic Minorities, New Delhi (December 2015). Review Article, (Mis) Representation of the Other: Islam/Muslims in a New Subfields of English Literary Studies, Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK in Vol. 36:2, 2016, pp Review on Historic Engagement with Occidental Cultures, Religions Powers, Muslim World Book Review, Leicester, UK in Vol. 36:2, 2016, pp Urdu article Angrezi Mutalah Quran-e Majid Ke Jadid Rujahanat in Uloomul Quran, Aligarh 29:2 (July December 2014), pp Urdu article on my book Mustashariquin awr Angrezi Trajime Quran by Professor Tawqeer Alam Falahi published in Uloomul Quran, Aligarh 29:2 (July December 2014), pp Urdu article Sayahat Nigari: Sir Syed awr Qurratul Ayn Hyder ke Hawaley sey Published in Fikro Nazar, Aligarh 52:4, (December 2015), pp

12 My book review on Dr. Ziauddin Falahi s book on Hakim Abdul Hameed published in Tehzibul Akhlaq, Aligarh 35:3 March 2016, pp My article on the British Novelist, Qaisra Shahraz s Revolt to be published in Believing and Belonging: A Critical Study of British Muslim Fiction, to be out in October 2016 My article on the English translation of M. M. Pickthall to be published in the Commemorative Volume on Pickthall to be published by Brill, Leiden, Netherlands in My article on Sir Syed travelogue to be published in the Sir Syed Bicentenary Commemorative Volume to be published by Viva Books, New Delhi in Dr. Tauseef Ahmad Parray s article A Brief Comparison of Kidwai s and Peachy and Al-Johani s English translations of the Quran published in the Muslim World League Journal, Makkah, 44:6 (March 2016) pp Delivered a lecture on Inter-Faith at the Department of Theology, Symposium chaired by Professor Allen Loyd, Mercer University, USA on 15 March 2016 at the AMU, Aligarh. Delivered Extension lecture on the Image of Muslim Women in Indian English Writing on 17 March 2016., Department of Urdu, at the AMU, Aligarh Delivered the Keynote Address on the Abbreviated Letters of the Quran at the National Seminar on 18 March 2016 at the Department of Linguistics, the AMU, Aligarh Delivered the Keynote Address on Higher Education and Muslim Women at the ICSSR sponsored National Seminar at Al-Barkaat Institute of Education, Aligarh on 19 March Appointed Member of the LPPM Committee of the UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad from My review on Dr. Falahi s book on Hakim Abdul Hamid published in Tehzibul Akhlaq, 35:3 (March 2016) pp

13 Delivered the Graduation Address at the Graduation Ceremony at the New College, Chennai on 30 March Appointed Subject Expert for the selection of Director/Deputy Director, UGC HRDC, at the University of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh on 04 April Academic Work 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 Book Review on After Orientlaism: Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-appropriations by Francious Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin published in the Muslim World Book Review, 36:3, (Spring) 2016, pp Book Review on Islam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson by Jeffrey Einboden published in the Muslim World Book Review, 36:3, (Spring) 2016, pp Appointed External Member of the Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Delivered the keynote address on Minorities Education at Al-Barkaat Institute of Education, on 15 May Delivered the keynote address on Minorities Education at Al-Falah University, Haryan, on 23 May Delivered the keynote address on Quality Education at M E S KEVEEYAM COLLEGE, Valanchery, Kerala on 01 June 2016 Delivered the Invited Talk on Higher Education at CPDHE, University of Delhi on 07 June Delivered the Invited Talk on the Role of Teacher at SH Senior Secondary School, AMU on 08 June Urdu article, Asloob Ahmad Ansari in Tehzibul Akhlaq, Aligarh 35:6 (June 2016). Pp Review on The Glorious Quran by Ahmad Zaki Hammad, published in the Muslim World Book Review, 36:4, Summar, 2016, pp Review on Meanings of the Noble Quran by Aftab Alam Khan, published in the Muslim World Book Review, 36:4, Summar, 2016, pp

14 Delivered the invited lecture on Islam and Muslims in English Literary Orientalism at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicester, UK on 04 August Review on The Quran: A Clear English Translation by Daud S. Peachy and Maneh Al-Johani in Hamdard Islamicus 39:1 (2016), pp

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