Name of Faculty:        DR MOHAMMAD RASHID AZEEZ

Designation:              Senior Assistant Professor (Level 12)

Brief Introduction/ Research Interests:

I was born at Sambhal, Moradabad U.P. I have completed my Matric from Zia ul Uloom Higher Secondary School and Intermediate from Hind Inter College and B.A. from Dharam Samaj College Aligarh and M.A. Urdu from Dr. B.R.A. University Agra and I have qualified the NET exam of UGC as well.

I have many courses like Adeeb-e-Mahir and Adeeb-e-Kamil from Jamia Urdu Aligarh and Dabir-e-fazil from Urdu Board Aligarh to my credit. I have also completed basic Computer Course from S.I.E.T. Chandigarh.

I have been awarded Ph.D. Degree by MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly. I took PG Diploma in Paleography from University of Delhi. I also visited Saudi Arabia as a delegate on behalf of Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India under youth exchange programme in 2007, Representing Sahitya Akademi Delhi as an Urdu writer.

At present I am working as Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Urdu, Central University of Kashmir. Five research scholars have been awarded   4 M.Phil. & 5 Ph.D. degrees under my supervision. I have achieved 12 Awards for my literary and academic contributions.

CV hyperlink:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbaMj7IEEYFJo6AKsMn3Vf66tGcokO5p/view?usp=sharing

Area of specialization/ Research Interests:

Research and Editing, Urdu Criticism, Urdu folk Literature, Urdu Rhetoric and Prosody, Urdu Rubai, Origin and Development of L/L etc.

I started my teaching career as Urdu Teacher/ Lecturer in several colleges as SBH Azad Girl’s Degree College, Urdu Academy Delhi, Satyawati College Delhi and I was associated with the Department of Urdu, University of Delhi and at the same time served as an editor of the prestigious Urdu journal quarterly “Naya Safar”Allahabad and Delhi(07 Issues) and one of the most popular Urdu literary magazines of Urdu Academy Delhi Monthly Aiwan-e-Urdu Delhi (42 Issues), a children’s magazine “Bachchon ka Mahnama Umang” (42 Issues). I also contributed to Aiwan-e-Urdu, my 42 “dialogues” with the stalwarts of Urdu literature, 75 introductory reviews of Urdu books and substantial contribution to Aiwan-e-Urdu’s special issues etc. Qurrat-ul-Ain Haider Number and Qamar Rais Number. I have anchored 13 episodes of Asri Awaz interviews.

MY literary journey began as a journalist. My first published work was titled “Jalal Afsar ke Rat Jagon ki Roshnai”, I assisted one of the top notch Urdu poet, writer, critics and research scholar Professor Qamar Rais in the preparation and compilation of a stupendous literary work “Taraqqi Pasand Adab Ke M’emar-Encyclopaedia” in which I contributed 13 write ups on various writers in addition to biographical sketches of 64 writers. I also translated an Urdu monograph “Sajjad Zaheer” into Hindi for Sahitya Academy, Delhi and Mulayam Singh-Ek Siyasi Zindagi” from Hindi to Urdu for Konark publications. I have compiled two books, “Pas-e Ashk” poetry of Shahbaz Nadeem Ziaee in Urdu and “Bol Bol Anmol” poetry of Allah Noon in Hindi.

Other memorial research achievements are “Pas-e-Tasveer” is a collection of my original analytical essays, my poetic collection “Taabeer-e-Junoon”, “Rohilkhand mein Lok Geet” is an outstanding work in the field of research and criticism, “Mukalma Mashaheer-e-Adab Se” vol. I & II, two reference books, “Urdu Lok Geeton mein Samaji Zindagi” is a remarkable work in the tradition of our society, “Tabeer e Janoon Shair aur Shairi” is reflect creative poetic writing, “Hindustani Tehzeeb mein Haqooq e Insani aur Nazriya e MahatmaGandhi” is a unique research on human rights in our Indian Societies, “Tareekh e Kana e Ka’ba”(compilation) is a research presentation, I have written more than 100 research papers and participated in 80 seminars and workshops also.

Official email ID: drmohammadrashidazeez@cukashmir.ac.in

Mobile Number: 8803766036, 9149959324

Administrative Positions: Nodal Officer IQAC CUKashmir.