Noted Islamic scholar and author, Professor Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui (76), former Chairman, Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University passed away today after a prolonged illness.
Professor Yasin Mazhar Siddiqui wrote more than 40 books and 300 research articles in Urdu, Arabic and Persian. His writings on the Prophet and his teachings got wide acclaim. He wrote extensively in reputed literary journal, ‘Nuqoosh’ and got international ‘Nuqoosh Award’, ‘Seerat-e-Rasool Award’ and ‘Seerat Nigari Award’.
Professor Siddiqui, an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University worked for ten years at the department of History before joining the department of Islamic Studies as a Reader, and later he became professor and chairman of the department. He also served as the Provost of Aftab Hall.
Professor Tariq Mansoor, Vice Chancellor, expressed his deep sense of sorrow at the demise of professor Siddiqui whose profound scholarship explored new dimensions of Seerah writing. His death causes irreparable loss to the academic world.
Professor Nisar Ahmad Khan, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor Muhammad Ismail, Chairman, Department of Islamic Studies and Professor Obaidullah Fahad deeply mourned his death.
source: http://www.milligazette.com / The Milli Gazette / Home> News> Community News / by The Milli Gazette Online / September 15th, 2020
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice Chancellor Prof Tariq Mansoor today released the prospectus of the Centre for Distance Education for the academic session 2018-19.
Aligarh :
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice Chancellor Prof Tariq Mansoor today released the prospectus of the Centre for Distance Education for the academic session 2018-19. According to the varsity officials, a dozen new courses have been introduced from the current session, which include BSc in Computer Science, Postgraduate Diplomas in Human Rights and Duties and Data Analytics with Statistical Packages for Social Science.
AMU Registrar Mr Abdul Hamid and Prof Nafees Ahmad Ansari, Director of the Centre were also present on the occasion.
Prof Ansari also said that new courses include B.Sc in Marketing Management, Personnel Management, Office Management, Sales and Retails, Computer Programming and Certificates courses in Information Technology, Computer Hardware and Network Technology and Goods and Service Tax (GST).
Besides the above, the Centre is already running 13 odd courses including SSSC (Arts, Social Science and Commerce), BA, B Com, MA, M Com, and several Postgraduate Diploma, Diploma and Certificate programmes.
source: http://www.ndtv.com / NDTV / Home> Education / by NDTV Education Team / August 25th, 2018
The collaboration with the Healing Little Hearts charity was initiated by AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor, Tabassum Shahab (Pro Vice-Chancellor) and Shamshul Zoha, an AMU alumnus.
File photo of Aligarh Muslim University campus.
Aligarh:
Free heart surgeries will be available for children with congenital defects at the Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) after the varsity signed a deal with a British charity.
The collaboration with the Healing Little Hearts (HLH) charity was initiated by AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor, Tabassum Shahab (Pro Vice-Chancellor) and Shamshul Zoha, an AMU alumnus.
Javaid Akhter (Registrar), Mohammad Hanif Beg (Chairperson, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery) and Azam Haseem signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HLH’s Sanjiv Nichani (Consultant Paediatric Interventionist) and Zoha.
“Since independent researches show yearly births of over 100,000 babies with congenital heart defects in India, it is high time to take necessary steps for helping these children with heart ailments,” said professor Beg.
Many children requiring corrective heart surgeries do not get treated due to financial constraints and even the affordable treatment available is sub-standard with poor expertise.
JNMC provides affordable treatment with state-of-art facilities to patients from underprivileged sections, he added.
source: http://www.news18.com / News18 / Home> India / by IANS / May 24th, 2018
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan dedicated his life for the Hindu-Muslim unity in the country and worked all his life for the educational upliftment of the community and for the strengthening of a pluralistic society of a modern India. He stressed on making education a medium to transform people into good human beings.
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) represents the secular Ganga-Jamuna culture and the AMU community is committed to preserve this identity of this great seat of learning. Sir Syed avoided too much emphasis on religious subjects in his writings, focusing instead on promoting modern education.
As we know, the AMU is an academic institution of international importance offering more than 300 courses in both traditional and modern branches of education. Academic excellence and cultural ethos of AMU needs to be projected and propagated worldwide more effectively in a positive way. In the fast changing technological world, the role of media has become very important in disseminating the information to have a maximum reach.The supreme interest of Sir Syed’s life was education in its widest sense. He wanted to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the modern knowledge of science available to them. He championed the cause of modern education at a time when all the Indians in general and Indian Muslims in particular considered it a sin to get modern education and that too through English language. He began establishing schools, at Muradabad in 1858 and Ghazipur in 1863.
A more ambitious undertaking was the foundation of the Scientific Society, which published translations of many educational texts and issued a bilingual journal in Urdu and English. It was for the use of all citizens; they were jointly operated by the Hindus and Muslims. In the late 1860s, there occurred some developments that were challenges to his activities.
In 1867, he was transferred to Varanasi, a city on the Ganga with great religious significance for Hindus. At about the same time, a movement started in the city to replace Urdu, the language spoken by the Muslims, with Hindi. This movement and the attempts to substitute Hindi for Urdu publications of the Scientific Society convinced Syed that he should do something.
Thus during a visit to England (1869-70), he prepared plans for a great educational institution — a “Muslim Cambridge.” On his return, he set up a committee for the purpose and also started an influential journal, Tahzib al-Akhlaq (Social Reform), for the uplift and reforms of the Muslims. A Muslim school was established at Aligarh in May 1875, and after his retirement in 1876, Sir Syed dedicated himself to make it a college.
To carry the legacy of the great reformer, the AMU has got a dynamic and intellectual person as vice chancellor in the form of Prof Tariq Mansoor, who had been associated with the university for more than three decades. Mansoor has been the principal of the J N Medical College since 2013. He had been the secretary of the University Games Committee for about seven years.
Besides being the president of the Association of Surgeons, he has been a member of the Medical Council of India (MCI) since 2015 and that of the AMU Executive Council for 12 years. Mansoor is a recipient of the senior surgical award from the Association of Surgeons of India. He is also given credit for the overall development of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. He served as an advisor in the Union Public Service Commission and as an assessor for the MCI.
Mansoor, in his vision, posted on the University’s website clearly stated that he will implement “Sir Syed’s vision of imparting modern education and will be focusing on “preparing students to qualify in competitive exams for central services, armed forces, IITs, IIMs and leading industries. We will also aim to produce top professionals in medicine, engineering, law, management, sciences and humanities”.
Appeal to alumniIt is unique and very positive to have a team of highly intellectual and academicians of repute to run the University. It is important for the progress of an academic institution that it should run by the academicians of high repute.
In an open letter to the AMU alumni who are holding important positions in different organisations worldwide, the vice chancellor has made an appeal to them to contribute both academically and financially.
To me, this is a very good move and initiative that will certainly help the students in getting employment in national and international market. Alumni support will also help in developing the infrastructural facilities of high standard as we have seen the contribution by Frank Islam, an AMU alumnus based in the US.The way newly appointed vice chancellor has taken the initiatives so far clearly shows his vision and plan for the betterment of the university. However, it would be more interesting to see his efforts in days to come. His biggest challenge would be maintaining the law and order situation in the campus. His long association with AMU would certainly be helpful in understanding the dynamics of the campus and in maintaining the law and order situation.
However, I would suggest that the VC should have an IPS officer on deputation basis as proctor of the University with power to handle the law and order situation independently. Another issue he may face would be regionalism and groupism in the campus but I am happy to mention that he already stated clearly in his vision that he will eliminate factionalism and groupism from the campus. It is high time for the AMU community to support the vice chancellor in making the University as one of the best in the country.
(The writer, a linguist, teaches at Washington University in St Louis, USA)
source: http://www.deccanherald.com / Deccan Herald / Home> Panorama / by M.J. Warsi / July 03rd, 2017
Prof Tariq Mansoor, newly appointed vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University.
Aligarh :
The newly appointed vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Prof Tariq Mansoor, has said that his priority would be to maintain discipline in the university and get rid of all the criminal elements who are giving a bad name to the institution.
Talking to TOI, soon after the notification of his appointment, Mansoor said the responsibility to head the institute is “huge” and he would ensure that students get a secure environment for their studies. Maintaining that there are only a handful of students who create problems on the campus, Mansoor, who would take charge after the end of the term of the present VC, Lt Gen (retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, on May 17 said his priority would be to get rid of such elements.
Responding to a question on the impeding audit of the AMU regarding academic, research, financial, and infrastructural ordered by the UGC, the newly appointed VC said he would ensure that all help is extended to the probe team and everything is done in a transparent manner. Mansoor said such audit can prove beneficial to the university also.
“Whatever deficiencies the audit points out would be taken care of”, he said. In response to a question on resistance by students organization against allowing leaders of right wing Hindu organizations for organizing debates in the university, Mansoor said, “Ideologies can differ but exchange of ideas should be welcomed in any academic institution”.
Maintaining that he was as it looking after 1/3 of the university in his present capacity as the principal of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, he said he would ensure total transparency in AMUs working.
Incidentally Mansoor is the first “local” vice chancellor of the university in the past five decades. Mansoor secured the highest number of votes (94) in AMU court. Out of three candidates, Prof Mansoor was the only candidate who was a professor in the university and having academic and administrative experience in a university system.
Rahat Abrar, director of Urdu Academy and former public relation officer of AMU said that the last local VC, Prof Abdul Aleem, was appointed 49 years back in 1968.
Three candidates including Mansoor were in the fray for the post of VC of the AMU. The other two candidates were: Abusaleh Shariff, executive director and chief scholar, US-India Policy Institute, Washington and Shahid Jameel, CEO, Welcome Trust and DBT India Alliance. The three names were sent to the Union human resource development ministry two months ago by the AMU Court.
Mansoor, born on September 20, 1956, completed his MBBS from the JN Medical College in 1978 and MS (Surgery) in 1982. In 1994, Mansoor completed FICS from the International College of Surgeons. Mansoor became the principal and chief medical officer of AMU’s JN Medical College in September 2013. He had first started working at the college’s department of general surgery as a clinical registrar in 1983 and taught MBBS classes.
Mansoor’s father late Prof Hafeezul Rahman was founder dean, Faculty of Law at AMU and his elder brother late Prof Rasheeduz Zafar was professor of Civil Engineering at IIT, Delhi, and professor and head of the department of Civil Engineering in AMU and vice-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi from 1992-1994. He has published 90 research papers and works in national and international journals.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Agra News / by Anuja Jaiswal / TNN / May 04th, 2017
