Professor Zafarul Islam Islahi, is Professor and Chairman of Department of Islamic Studies at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India and a member of Management Committee of Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh India.
Education
He obtained the degree of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Fazilat from Madrasatul Islah (Sarai Mir, Azamgarh), and completed Fazil-i-Adab and Bachelor of Arts from Lucknow University (Lucknow). He did his Master of Arts, Master of Philisophy & Doctor of Philosophy in History from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
Foreign Master of Philisophy and Doctor of Philosophy, he worked on Agrarian Law of the Mughal Empire and Concept of State and Law in the Mughal Empire respectively.
Career
He is also Secretary of Idarah Ulumul Quran, Aligarh India and a Historian, Islamic, Quarnic scholar. Islahi, born in 1950, belonged to Chitteypur (Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh). Foreign about five years (1980–1984), he worked as Research Associate in the Department of History (AMU, Aligarh).
He joined the Department of Islamic Studies (AMU, Aligarh) as Lecturer on 31 October 1984.
Presently, he is Professor & Chairman in the same department.
