Professor, Maulana Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi | |
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 Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi | |
| Born | Sayed Kafeel Ahmad (1951-12-25)25 December 1951 (age 74) Jairampur, Kood,Cuttack district,India |
| Citizenship | India |
| Education | Aalim M.A MPhil PhD |
| Alma mater | Jamia Islamia Markazul Uloom Darul Uloom Deoband Jamia Millia Islamia Aligarh Muslim University |
| Occupations | Professor, Author, Translator |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Notable work | Al-Maqrizi: Hayātuhu, Bīatuhu, Aathāruh (Arabic) Aswāq e Arab Ka Mukhtasar Ta'aruf Kitaab al-Muqaffa V.3rd (research) |
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Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi (born 25 December 1951) is an IndianIslamic scholar, academician, and litterateur of Arabic and Urdu. He has also served in several positions in the Arabic Department ofAligarh Muslim University for 45 years.
Sayed Kafeel Ahmad Qasmi was born on 25 December 1951, in Jairampur,Cuttack district, Orissa (now Odisha), to Sayed Muhammad Saleh.[1][2]
He received his primary education at home, then up to Arabic IV in Madrasa Arabia Islamia (nowJamia Islamia Markazul Uloom, Sungra).[3] His teachers at Sungra includedMuhammad Ismail Katki, Abdul Quddus Katki, Abdul Ghaffar (of Dharamshala, Jajpur), Muhammad Irfan Dhamnagari, Muhammad Ishaq Katki, Muhammad Ismail Patnavi, and Muhammad Yahya Mungeri.[2]
He began his secondary and further education atDarul Uloom Deoband in 1962 and graduated in 1965.[3][2]
His teachers at Deoband included Basheer Ahmad Khan Bulandshahri,Ibrahim Balyawi,Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi,Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad, Fakhrul Hasan Moradabadi, Islamul Haq Azmi, Akhtar Hussain Deobandi, Sharif Hasan Deobandi, Merajul Haq Deobandi,Naseer Ahmed Khan, Abdul Ahad Deobandi,Anzar Shah Kashmiri, Khurshid Alam Deobandi, Qamaruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, andWahiduzzaman Kairanawi.[2]
He received his intermediate school education atJamia Millia Islamia, studying with scholars including Abdul Haleem Nadvi andIjteba Nadwi, in 1966. He completed the Higher Secondary Examination with the First Division and Second Division in 1968.[4][2][5]
He completed hisB.A. (honours) in Arabic from Aligarh Muslim University with first division and first position in 1971. His theology teacher wasSaeed Ahmad Akbarabadi, and his medieval Indian history teacher wasIrfan Habib.[4][2]
He completed hisM.A. (Arabic) in 1973, securing first division and first position in 1973, and hisMPhil in 1976. In 1986, he got hisPhD for writing a dissertation in Arabic on the third volume ofAl-Maqrizi's Arabic manuscript,Kitaab al-Muqaffa al-Kabeer, under the supervision of Mukhtaruddin Ahmad.[2][6][7][5]
He was appointed a lecturer (assistant professor) atBanaras Hindu University from December 1975 to February 1976. On 16 August 1976, he was appointed lecturer in the Arabic department of Aligarh Muslim University. On 10 April 1988, he was promoted to reader (associate professor) in the same department. Between 19 December 1997, and 30 December 2016, he served as a professor.[2][8][9][10][11][12]
He also served three times as chairman of the Arabic department: the first time from 1999 to 2000; the second time from 2003 to 2006; and the third time from 2011 to 2014. Similarly, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 10 July 2014, to 9 July 2016, and finally resigned from the post on 24 December 2016. Meanwhile, he also served as Vice Chancellor three times when the Vice Chancellor and Pro Vice Chancellor went on leave for a short period of time.[2][8][9][10][11]
On 14 January 2014,Pranab Mukherjee awarded him with the "President's Certificate of Honor, 2012" for his contributions to Arabic language and literature at a ceremony held atRashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
In 2017, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the All India Association of Arabic Teachers and Scholars.[2]
He was felicitated by the Indian Embassy at theRiyadh International Book Fair in 2011, as well as at the "Sheikh Zayed Islamic Center" in Karachi in November 2005, in recognition of his services.[2]
Ten researchers completed their M.Phil.s, and 18 completed their Ph.D.s under his guidance.[2][20]
He served as Chairman of Arabic Department in AMU, Aligarh, Dean Faculty of Arts, Coordinator of UGC Schemes, Coordinator for Foreigner Admission, Provost, Assistant, Proctor, Dean Welfare Student, and Warden in various hostels. He has also served as the President of the AMU Aligarh Swimming Club and as a member of the Education Council and Advisory Committee.[2]
Apart from these eight projects, they have been worked on under the DSA and CAS schemes of theUniversity Grants Commission of India under his supervision. Similarly, he has supervised tens of seminars as a convener, director,[2] or coordinator.[2][21]
He is a well-known prose writer in Arabic and Urdu. Fifty of his articles have been published in many influential national and international magazines and journals in Arabic and Urdu. His Urdu articles includePalestinian Resistance Poetry,Comparison ofAl-Biruni's andIbn Battuta's Views on India, and essays such asThe Impact ofArabic andPersian onOdia Language andLiterature andPostal System in Islamic State.[4]
Also, between 2003 and 2006, he edited three issues of the Arabic JournalAl-Majma' Al-'Ilami Al-Hindi from the Department of Arabic, AMU, and his many Arabic articles were published in it.[2]
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