Farhan Nizami

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Who is Farhan Nizami?

Farhan Nizami CBE, is the Prince of Wales Fellow in the study of the Islamic World, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Founder Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. He read Modern History at Wadham College. From 1983 he has been a Fellow of St Cross College: Rothman’s Fellow in Muslim History, subsequently Fellow in Islamic Studies, and currently Emeritus Fellow. He is a member of the Faculties of History and Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He is Founder Editor of the Journal of Islamic Studies; Series Editor, Makers of Islamic Civilization. He specializes in Muslim social and intellectual history.

Farhan Nizami is the youngest of five children of the late Khaliq Nizami, one time Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, and of the late Razia Nizami. Farhan Nizami himself attended the Aligarh Muslim University, and in 1977 was awarded a BA Hons degree in History, followed two years later by an MA degree. He was awarded the University Medal, and the Khursheed Nurul Hasan Gold Medal in 1977. He was a National Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study in History and the recipient of the University Medal in 1979. With the award of an Oxford Overseas Scholarship, Nizami came up to Wadham College, completing his DPhil degree in 1983. During 1982 – 83 he was elected to the Frere Exhibition.

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Religion
  • Islam
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Education
  • Wadham College, Oxford
  • Aligarh Muslim University

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on July 23, 2013

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