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History

The Foundation Committee met on 29 October 1920. Its members were:

  • Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (Delhi)
  • Mufti Kifayatullah (Delhi)
  • Maulana Abdul Bari Farang Mahali (UP)
  • Maulana Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (Bihar)
  • Maulana Shabbir Usmani (UP)
  • Maulana Husain Ahmad Madni (UP)
  • Chaudhury Khaleeq-uz-zaman (UP)
  • Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan
  • Tasadduq Husain Khan (UP)
  • Dr. Mohammad Iqbal (Punjab)
  • Maulana Sanaullah Khan Amritsari (Punjab)
  • Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew (Punjab)
  • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Bengal and Bihar)
  • Dr. Syed Mehmood (Bengal and Bihar)
  • Saith Abdullah Haroon Karachiwale (Sindh, Bombay and Hyderabad)
  • Abbas Tyabiji (Sindh, Bombay and Hyderabad)
  • Sait Miyan Mohammad Haji Jaam Chhotani (Sindh, Bombay and Hyderabad)
  • Maulavi Abdul Haq (Sindh, Bombay and Hyderabad)

On 22 November 1920, Hakim Ajmal Khan was elected the first chancellor of Jamia. Mohamed Ali Jauhar became Jamia’s first Vice Chancellor, as Allama Iqbal could not accept the offer made through Mohandas K. Gandhi. It also elected a syndicate and created a syllabus subcommittee.The known freedom fighter and Muslim theologian, Maulana Mehmud Hasan, laid the foundation stone of Jamia Millia Islamia at Aligarh on Friday, 29 October 1920.

The first teachers of Jamia were:

  • Maulana Abdul Hai (Tafseer)
  • Maulana Mohammad Ali Shah (Hadith and Islamic Jurisprudence)
  • Maulana Mohammad Asalam Jairajpuri (Islamic History)
  • Pandit Jwala Prasad (Hindu Ethics)
  • Maulana Mohammad Ali Surti (Arabic)
  • Maulana Saifuddin Tonki (Urdu)
  • Maulana Abdul Aziz Ansari, MA, LLB
  • Syed Raouf Pasha (English)
  • Moazzam Ali Khan, BA (Oxon.) History and Politics
  • EJ Kellat (Cantab) History and Politics
  • Wahidullah, BA (Hons) Sociology
  • AM Khwaja, BA (Geography)
  • Khwaja Abdul Hamied (Chemistry)
  • LN Gupta, MSc. (Chemistry)
  • DN Mukherji, MA (Mathematics)
  • RN Saoom, BA (Cantab) (Physics)
  • Dr. Mohammad Azim Khan, MS (Botany)
  • DG Ibsen, FS Master, BA (Journalism)
  • Aggarwal, BA (Commerce)

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