By TwoCIrcles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Professor Zillur Rahman, now a retired faculty of the Aligarh Muslim University, has been awarded D.Lit Hon Causa by Hamdard University, Karachi on February 23.
It is for the time in the history of AMU that a teacher of AMU has been awarded D.Lit Hon Causa by a foreign University.
Prof. Zillur Rahman was born at Bhopal in 1940 in a highly educated family and graduated from AMU in 1960, and then joined Tibbiya College as lecturer, and retired as Professor and Dean of Unani Medicine.
He has authored 45 books. His work on Ibn Sina is considered most authentic. He started Ibn Sina Academy in year 2000. It is the largest single man collection at Aligarh. He has widely travelled all over the world to collect antiques, old and rare books.
In 2006, he was awarded Padma Shree by the government of India. Besides he is also the recipient of President of India award on Persian language in 1995 and was WHO Short Consultant Bangladesh in 1996.