Farhan Nizami

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Dr Farhan Nizami, CBE is the founding Director of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, which is a world-recognized academic centre of excellence in Oxford, England, attracting visiting scholars from all parts of the Muslim world. It is an academic institution renowned for its excellence in teaching, research publication and international outreach.

Dr Nizami is a Prince of Wales Fellow in the Study of the Islamic World at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim University (MA History) and at Wadham College, Oxford. He became a fellow of St Cross College in 1983 and subsequently a Fellow in Islamic Studies. Upon his move to Magdalen, he was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship at St Cross. His doctoral research topic was Madrasahs, Scholars and Saints: Muslim Response to the British Presence in Delhi and the Upper Doab, 1803–1857 (PhD, 1983).

Dr Nizami’s father was the historian Khaliq Ahmad Nizami, a Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. One of Dr Nizami’s brothers, Ehtisham Ahmad Nizami, teaches at Aligarh.