Aligarh Muslim University

अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय; جامعہ علی گڑھ; Aligarh Muslim University ; Muslim University Aligarh
motto	عَلَّمَ الاِنْسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَم; ( Arabic. "Taught man what he did not know" . Koran 96: 5)
founding	1875 (Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College) ; 1920 (Aligarh Muslim University)
Sponsorship	state
place	Aligarh , Uttar Pradesh
country	India
Vice Chancellor ; ( vice chancellor )	Zameerud-din Shah (2014)
Students	approx. 28,000 (2014)
Employee	1,342 academic ; 5,610 non-academic (2014)
Annual budget	1 billion rupees (€ 12 million) (2013)
Networks	FUIW
Website	www.amu.ac.in

The Bab-e-Sayyad entrance gate

Victoria gate, a Victorian style university building

The Aligarh Muslim University ( AMU ; Hindi अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय , Urdu جامعہ علی گڑھ; Muslim University of Aligarh ) is a state-sponsored Islamic university based in Aligarh in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . It is located in the city of Aligarh in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, around 130 kilometers southeast of Delhi . Established on the model of the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge , it was one of the first institutions of higher education in British India .

history

The forerunner institution, the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College (" MAO College ") was founded as an educational institution for Indian Muslims in 1875, largely under the influence of the Muslim reformer Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan . The college was originally affiliated with the University of Calcutta , after 1885 with the University of Allahabad . At the turn of the 20th century, the college became a law academy. At the same time, efforts began to develop it into an independent university. In 1907 there was also a girls' school. However, the conversion to a full university and the renaming to Muslim University did not happen until 1920. In 1927 the university received a school for the blind, in 1928 a medical faculty and in 1930 also a mechanical engineering faculty . In 2011, two branches of the university were opened in Murshidabad (West Bengal) and Mallapurum (Kerala).

Today the university has twelve faculties:

Agronomy
Business administration
trade
Engineering and technology
art
medicine
Natural sciences
Philosophical Faculty
Jurisprudence
Social science
theology
Unani medicine

Currently the university has approximately 30,000 students and more than 2000 faculty members with over 80 branches of study. There are also students from Africa, West and Southeast Asia. Some courses have places reserved for students from Commonwealth and the Southeast Asian Economic Community ( SAARC ).

Professors

From 1930 to 1932 the mathematician André Weil was at the university. His assistant there was T. Vijayaraghavan .
In 1952, the German ophthalmologist and tropical medicine specialist Alfred Leber , previously a professor at the University of Göttingen, was appointed director of ophthalmology and dean.

Alumni

(Selection)

Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman President of the Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, Aligarh (India) looks back on a 40-year academic career. He made vital contributions to Unani medicine and is now an authority in the field. Hakim S. Zillur is one of the few doctors who made Unani medicine known worldwide. Author of over 200 publications and 25 books and organizer of international conferences. He has received various academic and national awards. Awards: such as the Urdu Academy Award, Government of UP, Lucknow, as well as various international awards such as the Certification for research work in Unani Medicine awarded by Ajmal Tibbia College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Liaquat Ali Khan , politician, first Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1947 to 1951.
Khawaja Nazimuddin , politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1951 to 1953.
Ghulam Muhammad , politician, Governor General of Pakistan from 1951 to 1955.
Muhammed Ayub Khan , officer, politician, President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969.
Mohammed Abdullah , Kashmiri politician, 1930.
Mohammad Sayeed , Kashmiri politician

Web links

Commons : Aligarh Muslim University - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Aligarh Muslim University (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Facts. amu.ac.in> Home> About> Fact, accessed April 19, 2014 .
^ Aligarh Muslim University, BHU welcome budgetary allocations. The Times of India, March 1, 2013, accessed April 19, 2014 .
^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 20 , accessed on September 1, 2019 .

[facts-1] Facts. amu.ac.in> Home> About> Fact, accessed April 19, 2014 .

[2] Aligarh Muslim University, BHU welcome budgetary allocations. The Times of India, March 1, 2013, accessed April 19, 2014 .

[FUIW-3] List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 20 , accessed on September 1, 2019 .