Tariq Rahman | |
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| Born | (1949-02-04)4 February 1949 (age 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Sheffield University of Strathclyde |
| Awards | Humboldt Research Award, 2012 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Distinction), 2014[1] Pride of Performance, 2004[2] HEC Distinguished National Professor, 2004 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Linguistic history |
| Institutions | Quaid-i-Azam University Beaconhouse National University Peshawar University University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir |
Tariq Rahman (born 4 February 1949) is aPakistani academicscholar,newspaper columnist, researcher, and awriter.[3]
Currently based inLahore, he is the author of many books and other publications, mainly in the field oflinguistics. He has been awarded several national and international awards to recognise his research and scholarly work.[2]
He was born inBareilly (U.P.) inIndia on 4 February 1949. The family moved toPakistan in 1951. His father, Sami Ullah Khan, served as the head of the mathematics department at thePakistan Military Academy inKakul, nearAbbottabad. Educated at Burn Hall School (nowArmy Burn Hall College), he joined the army as an armoured corps officer in 1971. However, he decided to leave the army—on the grounds of being a conscientious objector to the military action inEast Pakistan, nowBangladesh. He finally resigned his commission in 1978. This was recognised by the Government of Bangladesh which conferred upon him a civil award on 1 October 2013 inDhaka.[4] Meanwhile, he had obtained three master's degrees as a private candidate. In 1979, he won aBritish Council scholarship, which later enabled him to obtain master's and doctoral degrees from theUniversity of Sheffield in England in 1985. His first PhD was in literature. Later he left the path of literature as his main interest was in the social sciences.[2]
Tariq Rahman joined academia as an associate professor in the English Department ofPeshawar University in 1985. In 1987, he became a professor and head of the English Department at theUniversity of Azad Jammu and Kashmir inMuzaffarabad where he introduced the subject of linguistics. In 1989, he also got an M.Litt. in linguistics from theUniversity of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 1990, he joined the National Institute of Pakistan Studies. Dr. Rahman was made a distinguished national professor for life in 2004 and a tenured professor in 2007. He joined the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2011 as Dean of the School of Education.[5] In September 2014 he was appointed as the Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the same university. He retired as Dean (School of Education) on 1 September 2024. He has been an Academic Visitor at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and is an Ordinary Member of the Common Room (subject to rules) at the same college. He has also been a visiting research fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford.[5]
To write his bookFrom Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History,[6] Dr. Rahman travelled to some of the major cities inPakistan and to four other countries: England, France, Germany andIndia. He studied sources inUrdu,Persian, andHindi. He also got works in ChaghtaiTurkish, French and German translated for himself. He learned theDevanagari script on his own and Persian at the Khana-e-Farhang inRawalpindi at the age of 58.
He has also published three collections of short stories and has edited two books. His research-based published work is mostly on sociolinguistic history, language and politics and educational linguistics with focus on the Muslims of northIndia andPakistan but he has also published on onomastics (Names OUP, 2015) and intellectual history. He has also written more than 107 articles in scholarly journals, 24 entries in reference books, 10 encyclopaedia articles, 45 chapters in books and many book reviews. In addition toOxford University Press,Karachi, his books have been published byOrient Blackswan in India. His last bookInterpretations of Jihad in South Asia: an Intellectual History was published by Walter de Gruyter from Berlin and Boston in 2018 and a paperback edition was published by Oxford University Press in Pakistan in 2019. In 2022 his bookPakistan's Wars: an Alternative History was published by Routledge, Francis and Taylor from London and New York. The South Asia edition was published by Routledge India (New Delhi). His latest book isHandbook of Mirza Ghalib's Poetry and Poetics: Commentaries and Contemporary Concerns (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2024). Also downloadable from ResearchGate and Academia.edu areThe Complete Short Stories of Tariq Rahman (2024) andNot the Whole Truth: the Life and Times of Tariq Rahman
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