Tariq Rahman was born on 4 February 1949 and is a Pakistani academic scholar, newspaper columnist, researcher, and a writer.
13 Facts About Tariq Rahman
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Tariq Rahman has been awarded several national and international awards to recognise his research and scholarly work.
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Tariq Rahman joined the academia as an associate professor in the English Department of Peshawar University in 1985.
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Dr Rahman was made distinguished national professor for life in 2004 and a tenured professor in 2007.
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Tariq Rahman joined the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2011 as Dean of the School of Education.
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Tariq Rahman has retired as Dean on 1 September 2024.
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Tariq Rahman has been Academic Visitor at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and is Ordinary Member of Common Room at the same college.
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Tariq Rahman has been visiting research fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford.
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Tariq Rahman got works in Chaghtai Turkish, French and German translated for himself.
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Tariq Rahman learned the Devanagari script on his own and Persian at the Khana-e-Farhang in Rawalpindi at the age of 58.
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Tariq Rahman has published three collections of short stories and has edited two books.
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Tariq Rahman's research-based published work is mostly on sociolinguistic history, language and politics and educational linguistics with focus on the Muslims of north India and Pakistan but he has published on onomastics and intellectual history.
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Tariq Rahman has written more than 107 articles in scholarly journals, 24 entries in reference books, 10 encyclopaedia articles, 45 chapters in books and many book reviews.