Jamia Millia Islamia is a central university located in New Delhi,India. Originally established at Aligarh,United Provinces during the British Empire in 1920,it moved to its current location in Okhla in 1935. It was given the deemed status by University Grants Commission in 1962. On 26 December 1988,it became a central university.
Syed Sulaiman Nadvi was a South Asian historian,writer and scholar of Islam who moved to Pakistan in 1950,just three years before his death. He co-authored Sirat-un-Nabi and wrote Khutbat-e-Madras. He was a member of the founding committee of Jamia Millia Islamia.
Mushirul Hasan was a historian of modern India. He wrote on the partition of India,communalism,and on the history of Islam in South Asia.
Al Jamiatul Ashrafia is a Sunni Madrasa in India. It is located in Mubarakpur in a Northern State of India,Uttar Pradesh.
Abdul Majeed Khwaja was an Indian lawyer,educationist,social reformer and freedom fighter from Aligarh. In 1920,he along with others founded Jamia Millia Islamia and later served its vice chancellor and chancellor.
Jamiatul Qasim Darul Uloom -il-Islamia is an Islamic seminary in India. The Jamia was established by Mufti Mahfoozur Rahman Usmani,an Islamic scholar of India. in 1989,Indo-Nepal border,in Supaul,Bihar. The Jamia also serves as a center for National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language and National Institute of Electronics &Information Technology.
Masud Husain Khan was an Indian linguist,the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia,a Central University in New Delhi.
Mushir-ul-Haq was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Kashmir from 1987 until his murder in Srinagar in 1990. He was kidnapped,alongside his personal secretary Abdul Gani Zargar,on 6 April 1990;their bodies were found on 10 April 1990. The Jammu Kashmir Students Liberation Front claimed responsibility for his kidnapping and murder. He obtained his PhD from McGill University and later taught at Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia. Mushir-ul-Haq wrote several books,namely Religion and Politics in Muslim India (1857-1947):A Study,Muslim politics in modern India 1857-1947 (1970),Indian Muslims' Attitude to the British in the Early Nineteenth Century,and Islam in Secular India (1972). He also established the Shah-i-Hamadan Institute of Islamic Studies in 1988.
Rehana Khatoon is an Indian scholar,teacher of Persian language,former Head of the Department of Persian,University of Delhi and the author of Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature. She was honoured by the Government of India,in 2014,by bestowing on her the Padma Shri,the fourth highest civilian award,for her contributions to the propagation of Persian language and literature. Rehana Khatoon is the first woman alumni of the Aligarh Muslim University to be awarded the Padma Shri.
Mansoor Hasan Khan,is an Indian cardiologist,known for his contributions towards the setting up of Lari Cardiology Centre at King George's Medical University,Lucknow. The Government of India honored Hasan in 2011,with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri.
Mohammad Mujeeb (1902-1985) was an Indian writer of English and Urdu literature,educationist,scholar and the vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia,Delhi.
Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi Sambhali is an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar who established Al-Noor Public School,Sambhal. He is an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband,Delhi University and the Jamia Millia Islamia. He has authored Dars-e-Hadith,Dars-e-Quran,Islahi Mazameen,Journey to Madina,Qur'an and Hadith - Main Sources of Islamic Ideology and Umrah Ka Tariqah
Shamim Hanafi was an Indian Urdu critic,dramatist and a proponent of modernist movement in Urdu literature. His books on modernism include The Philosophical Foundation of Modernism and New Poetic Tradition. He was associated with the Jamia Millia Islamia to the extent of becoming a professor emeritus.
Mohammad Sami,FASc &FNASc... is an Indian theoretical physicist and cosmologist,known for his work on dark energy. A research paper known as "Dynamics of Dark Energy",co-authored by him,has found place in the elite document titled as "Scientific Background on the Nobel Prize in Physics" (2011),compiled by the Class for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on the accelerating universe. He is currently a professor at Center for Cosmology and Science Popularization at the SGT University,Gurgaon.
Zafar Ahmad Nizami was an Indian author,poet and writer. He served the Jamia Millia Islamia as Professor of Political Science for about 30 years and authored books like Memarān-e-Jamia,Hindustān ke chand Siyasi Rahnuma,Maulana Azad Ki Kahani and Tarīkh-e-Hind:Ahd-e-Jadeed.
Muhammad Salim Qasmi Siddiqi was an Indian Muslim scholar who co-founded the Darul Uloom Waqf in Deoband and served as its first rector. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. He received the fourth Shah Waliullah Award and was honoured with the Mark of Distinction from Egypt.
Khwaja Mohammed Shahid is an Indian career civil servant,academic and administrator who formerly served as Vice Chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University and Registrar of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He was also an eminent visitor to the University Grants Commission.
Abdul Lateef Azmi was an Urdu litterateur and among the close associates of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia. He joined Jamia Millia as a student of B.A. in 1936 and served the university over 50 years in various capacities. He was one of the longest serving editors of Jamia Millia's official magazine,Jamia. He died in Delhi on May 11,2002. In 1985,Maktaba Jamia,New Delhi,published a book Abdul Lateef Azmi Hayat-o-Khidmat. Several scholars contributed chapters in the book on various facets of Abdul Lateef Azmi and his life.
