Tariq Rahman

Tariq Rahman was born on February 4, 1949 in Bareilly (U.P.) in India. The family migrated to Pakistan in 1951 where his father, Sami Ullah Khan, became instructor of mathematics, later rising to the head of the department, at the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, near Abbottabad. Tariq was educated at Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College) and joined the army as an armoured corps officer in 1971. However, he decided to leave the army being a conscientious objecter to the military action in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and the war which followed. He finally resigned his commission in 1978 meanwhile obtaining three M.A degrees as a private candidate. In 1979 he got a British Council scholarship which enabled him to obtain M.A and Ph.D degrees from the University of Sheffield in England. He joined the academic profession 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 AJ & K 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.^[1] In the same year he was awarded the Pride of Performance for research. He was also the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004-5. In 2007 he was appointed the Director of the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad, and in 2010 he was made professor emeritus there. In September 2011, after the end of his tenure as director of NIPS at QAU, he accepted the deanship of the School of Education at the Beaconhouse National University in Lahore.

His published work is mostly on sociolinguistic history, language and politics and educational linguistics with focus on the Muslims of north India and Pakistan. He has over 94 articles in scholarly journals; 11 books; 06 encyclopedia articles; 28 contributions to books and several book reviews. His books, including language and Politics in Pakistan, language, Ideology and Power and An Introduction to Linguistics, have been published, in addition to Oxford (Karachi) also by Orient Blackswan in India. In addition to his academic career he is also an important literary critic who has commented extensively on Pakistani literature in English.

References

1. ^ "Language of the learned". Dawn. 25 October 2009. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/in-paper-magazine/education/language-of-the-learned-509. Retrieved 1 July 2010. 

External links

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• QAU page

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Name	Rahman, Tariq
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Short description	Professor in sociolinguistic history and language
Date of birth	February 4, 1949
Place of birth	Bareilly, India
Date of death
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