Ahmad Hasan Dani - Visiting, Research and Honorary Positions

Visiting, Research and Honorary Positions

During his Associate Professorship at Dhaka University, Dani worked as a Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1958–59). Later, in 1969 he became Asian Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 1974, he went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as a visiting scholar. In 1977, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Over the span of his career, Dani was awarded honorary fellowships of Royal Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (1969), German Archaeological Institute (1981), Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsMEO) (1986) and Royal Asiatic Society (1991).

In 1991, Dani was made Honorary Citizen of Bukhara and Honorary Member of Paivand Society in Tajikistan. He was made Honorary Life Patron of Al-Shifa Trust, Rawalpindi in 1993.

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