Tariq Rahman
| Tariq Rahman | |
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| Born |
4 February 1949 Bareilly, India |
| Residence | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistani |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Fields | Linguistic history |
| Institutions |
Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Acting Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. |
| Alma mater |
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| Notable awards |
D.Litt University of Sheffield, 2014 (based on examination of all publications for scholarship in linguistic history of South Asian Muslims)
Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2012.
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Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Acting Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.
D.Litt University of Sheffield, 2014 (based on examination of all publications for scholarship in linguistic history of South Asian Muslims)
Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2012.
Tariq Rahman is a Pakistani academic, columnist and intellectual. Currently based in Lahore, he is author of many books and other publications, mainly in the field of linguistics. He has been awarded several national and international awards to recognise his research and scholarly work.
He was born in Bareilly (U.P.) in India on 4 February 1949. The family moved to Pakistan in 1951. His father, Sami Ullah Khan, served as the head of the mathematics department at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, near Abbottabad.
Educated at Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College), he joined the army as an armoured corps officer in 1971. However, he decided to leave the army—on the grounds of being a conscientious objector to the military action in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. He finally resigned his commission in 1978. This was recognised by the Government of Bangladesh which conferred upon him the 'Friends of Bangladesh Liberation War Honour' on 1 October 2013 in Dhaka. Meanwhile, he had obtained three master's degrees as a private candidate. In 1979, he won a British Council scholarship, enabling him to obtain master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Sheffield in England.
He joined the academia as an associate professor in the English Department of Peshawar University in 1985. In 1987, he became professor and head of the English Department in the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Muzaffarabad where he introduced linguistics. In 1989, he also got an M.Litt in linguistics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 1990, he joined the National Institute of Pakistan Studies. In 2004, he was given the title of National Distinguished Professor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. In the same year he was awarded the Pride of Performance for research.
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