Professor Masood Husain Khan Felicitated By Ghalib Institute

ALIGARH February 20: Ghalib Institute, New Delhi today felicitated noted Urdu scholar Professor Masood Husain Khan for his yeomen contribution to Urdu language and literature at Aligarh Muslim University.

Ninety two years old Professor Masood Husain Khan had served as Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Jamia Urdu, Aligarh.

Prof. A. R. Kidwai, former Governor of Haryana felicitated him. On this occasion, Prof. A. R. Kidwai released a book on Prof. Masood Husain Khan’s life and contribution.

Noted historian Prof. Irfan Habib said that AMU has a pride in producing such type of Urdu personality and said that Prof. Masood is a rationalist and he adopted scientific linguistic approach.

Prof. Imtiaz Hasnain, Chairman, Department of Linguistics at AMU said that prof. Masood Husain Khan is a doyen of Urdu linguistics and placed Urdu on the map of academic world of serious linguistic studies.

His magnum opus, a history of Urdu language, originally his PhD dissertation which was published in 1948, advanced a new theory of Urdu’s birth, contradicting all theories hitherto popular among scholars.

Prof. Imtiaz Hasnain mentioned that Prof. Masood Husain Khan represents the generation of phonologists, called the British phonologists, who developed the concept [t of prosodic features for describing the phonological structure of language.

He has authored several books including the rise and fall of Urdu in India.

Professor Siddiqur Rahman Kidwai, Secretary and Shahid Mahuli, Director of Ghalib Institute, New Delhi, Dr. Khalique Anjum, Secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu, Delhi also addressed the felicitation function.

International Conference On Algebra And Its Applications

Aligarh 20/02/2010: The Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University today inaugurated a three day International Conference on “Algebra and its Applications”.

Noted Mathematician Professor Surjeet Singh of Chandigarh inaugurated the Seminar. Prof. Alberto Facchini of Italy and Prof. Ulrich Dempwolf of Germany was the guests of honour.

Twenty-three foreign delegates from Germany, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Brazil, Iran, Honolulu, Japan, Poland, USA and Canada will present their papers.

Chairman, Dept. of Mathematics Prof. Afzal Beg said that the latest developments in the field of Algebra shall be discussed in a three day conference by the eminent Mathematicians from the country and abroad.

Prof. Mohammad Ashraf, Co-convener of the International Conference said that one of the important objectives of this conference is to have the algebraists from various places together under one roof to present their researches, exchange and analyze them to know their implications for a better understanding.

He said more than hundred papers presented by the participants from across the borders shall lead to sophistication of knowledge providing new perspective and shall equip one with the needed paraphernalia to handle the related issue fact fully.

Prof. M. Z. Khan coordinator, DRS also addressed the inaugural session.