Jamia Millia Islamia is a premier 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. Jamia Millia Islamia became a central university in the year 1988 by an act of the Indian Parliament which was passed on December 26,1988.
Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader,and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement. He was one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia University. He remained it's chancellor from 1928 to 1936.
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.
Najeeb Jung is a retired Indian Administrative Service officer who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Delhi from July 2013 to December 2016. He previously served as the 13th Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia from 2009 to 2013.
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.
Riyaz Punjabi was a professor and vice chancellor at the University of Kashmir. He was granted the Padma Shri,one of India's highest civilian awards,in 2011. In 2008 he was granted an honorary professorship at the International University Vienna for his contribution in "Strengthening International Relations in the Sphere of Education". He also won the Amity Academic Excellence Award from Amity International Business School,in 2009,the Fazil Memorial Award in 2009,and the Adbi Markaz Kamraz award in 2010. He died on April 8,2021.
Syed I Ahson is a computer science professor,education management professional,researcher,and author. He specialises in multiple areas,including bioinformatics,computational biology,and Web 2.0. Ahson graduated from University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a National Merit Scholarship Award,India (1959–1965). He also won a British Council Overseas Scholarship Award for Ph.D. (1973–1975). He later taught in Saudi Arabia and India. His recent posting was at Patna University,Bihar as pro-Vice chancellor. While there he enacted educational reforms amide political chaos and bureaucracy.
Akhtarul Wasey is an Indian scholar and academician,who serves as the president of Maulana Azad University,in Jodhpur,India. He formerly served as professor of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi,where he remains professor emeritus in the Department of Islamic Studies.
Science and Engineering Research Board is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology,Government of India,established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009. The Board was chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology. The Board was set up for promoting basic research in science and engineering and to provide financial assistance to scientists,academic institutions,R&D laboratories,industrial concerns and other agencies for such research.Thereafter,it was succeeded by an act called Anusandhan National Research Foundation Act 2023 which formed Anusandhan National Research Foundation in the year 2024.
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.
Mohammad Amin was an Indian historian. He was the vice chancellor of Jamia Hamdard;taught History at St. Stephen's College,Delhi University for four decades;and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
Furqan Qamar is a former vice-chancellor of University of Rajasthan and first vice-chancellor of Central University of Himachal Pradesh. Earlier he was associated with Association of Indian Universities. Professor Furqan Qamar,was the Secretary General of the Association of Indian Universities,i.e. the principal executive officer of the largest and one of the oldest network of universities. He has also served as Advisor (Education) in the Planning Commission of India.
Mohammad Mujeeb (1902-1985) was an Indian writer of English and Urdu literature,educationist,scholar and the vice chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia,Delhi.
Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow,Green Templeton College,University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health,Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences since its inception in the year 2020 at Ashoka University. He was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) established in December 2020,and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance. Known for his research in hepatitis E virus,Jameel is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian Academy of Sciences,and Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Medical Sciences in 2000.
Mohammad Zahid Ashraf is an Indian biotechnologist and a professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. Known for his studies on thrombosis experienced at high altitudes. Ashraf is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian National Sciences Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences,and an elected member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development,one of the highest Indian science awards,for his contributions to biosciences,in 2017–18.
Najma Akhtar is an Indian academic and academic administrator. Since 12 April 2019,she has been the Vice Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia,an Indian university and served their till 12 November 2023. She is also the first woman to hold the post in JMI.
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.
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.
