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Place of Birth: Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
About Akhtarul Wasey
- Akhtarul Wasey was a professor of Islamic studies who taught at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University) in New Delhi.
- Currently he is working as President of Maulana Azad University, Jodhpur, India and as a Professor Emeritius in the Department of Islamic Studies in Jamia Millia Islamia.
- As a versatile personality he assumed many formal and informal designations.
- Formerly he worked as the director of Zakir Husain Institute of Islamic Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, Vice-chairman of the Urdu Academy Delhi and a Member of the Executive Board of National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language.
- And was also, Vice-president of Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature, India Interfaith Coalition on HIV/AIDS etc.
- Previously he was also the President of Dargah Committee of the world-famous Chishti Sufi Shrine at Ajmer, treasurer of Maulana Azad Education Foundation, General Secretary of South Asia Inter-religious Council on HIV/AIDS, a body created by the UNICEF, and head of the Department of Islamic Studies and Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia.
- Wasey has been invited to 70 academic and semi-academic tours abroad including programmes organized/sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFP, UNHRC and Organization of Islamic Conference.
- He was also the editor of four journals of Islamic Studies, Islam Aur Asr-e-Jadeed (an Urdu quarterly), Islam and the Modern Age (an English quarterly), Risala Jamia (an Urdu monthly), and Islam Aur Adhunik Yug (Hindi).
- Apart from his academic achievements he regularly appears on TV, debating on issues related to Islam and Muslims, and has delivered over 400 radio and 300 TV talks along with extensive and frequent writings in different news papers and magazines.
- He is considered to be a Muslim spokesperson among academicians.
- In 2013 Wasey received a Padma Shri award (a national honour by the President of India for outstanding achievers among Indian citizens) from President Pranab Mukherjee, honouring him as a distinguished academician, specializing in the multidisciplinary study of Islam and Indian Muslims.
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