The poetry of Hafiz Shirazi, Saadi and Omar Khayyam reverberates in the classes held by the Persian Department which comprises a faculty of meritorious scholars of this Indo-Aryan language. A few of the faculty members have been working in collaboration with the Khana-e-Farhang-e-Iran on several joint projects on Persian language and literature.
Courses: B.A. (Hons.) PERSIAN
President: Dr. Jameel Ur Rehman
Members: Dr. Malik Saleem Javed, Dr. Jamshed Khan, Dr. Farha Adeeba and Dr. Shahnaz Ara Begum
The department organized a lecture by Prof. Aleem Ashraf Khan on “the role of Sufis in maintaining social harmony in the Medieval period” on March 31, 2016.
Dr. Jamshed Khan
Associate Professor