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Anis Ahmad (Urdu: انیس احمد; b. 23 March 1944; popularised as Professor Doctor Anis) is a Pakistani social scientist, an educationist, and professor of Islam. He is a firm opponent of Western influence, secularism, and any ''Bid‘ah'' or innovation in Islam, including the Ahmadiyya. He is recipient of award, by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, awarded fellowship by the University Science Malaysia, also earned meritorious professorship at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. As first Vice-President of International Islamic University, Islamabad, he visualised and founded the Da’wah Academy of the I.I.U.I,〔http://dawah.iiu.edu.pk/〕 he was the first Dean of the Faculty of Usul al-din and Faculty of Social Sciences of the IIU at Islamabad. He was first Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences of the International Islamic University, Malaysia.〔http://www.iium.edu.my/irkhs〕 ==Biography== Anis Ahmad was born into an educated and religiously oriented family. Anis was encouraged to study poetry and memorise couplets from Iqbal, Ghalib, Hali and other classical poets. Initially his mother tutored him in English and Urdu and his father taught him Persian. Anis studied at Sindh Madrasatul Islam, in Karachi, which was alma mater of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. He later joined Sindh Muslim College at Karachi and got his Bachelors in Philosophy and Psychology. He represented his college in inter university debates and was editor of Urdu section of college magazine. He pursued his masters in department of Islamic History at the University of Karachi and secured first class in his exams. He was elected in the student's union of the university; he also served as general secretary of Islamic History Society and organised intellectual activities. After completing his masters in 1963 he was appointed as lecturer in the department of Islamic history at University of Karachi. He contributed articles in Urdu and English journals. He taught at Karachi University till 1969, when he was offered scholarship by the Temple University Pennsylvania. He did his M.A. and PhD from Temple University in Islamic and Comparative Religion. He also taught at Appalachian State University and Temple University till 1981 when he was invited by the International Islamic University, Islamabad to establish faculty of Islamic Learning (''Kulliyah Usul al-Din''). He joined the university in 1981 as Directory of Department of Da'wah and Qir'at which was re-designated as ''Kulliyah Usul al-Din'' in 1983. He was appointed as the first dean of the faculty. He also initiated idea of a continuing education and training centre of the university under the name Da'wah Academy and was appointed its founding Director General in 1984. He also served as first Vice-President of the International Islamic University Islamabad. Anis introduced comparative religious studies in the faculty of ''Usul al-Din'' and taught and supervised research throughout his career as a meritorious professor of comparative religions. He left Pakistan to assist the International Islamic University Malaysia, at Kuala Lampur in development of a new faculty, i.e. Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage. As Dean of thus faculty he lead his faculty members in realisation of the concept of Islamization of knowledge. His involvement in the movement started in 1972 when the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was founded in Illinois Institute of Technology and he was elected as its secretary general and later became its president. During his involvement with AMSS, the concept of islamisation of knowledge was developed by Prof. Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, the founding president of AMSS. Anis organised yearly seminars, conferences, workshops for economists, politicians, sociologists, psychologists, historians, religionists, anthropologists and linguists during his stay of over a decade in the US With a rich background in Islamization of Social Sciences he tried to translate this concept into the curriculum of Human Sciences at International Islamic University Malaysia. With the graduation of first batch of fifteen hundred students in the Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, he returned to International Islamic University in 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anis Ahmad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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