Dr. Tariq Rahman
Tariq Rahman got his first doctorate in English literature from the University of Sheffield in 1985. In 2014 he was given a higher doctorate, a D.Litt, by the same university on examination of his published work: Language and Politics in Pakistan (1996); Language, Ideology and Power: language-learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India (2002) and From Hindi to Urdu: a Social and Political History (2011) as well as articles in scholarly journals and contributions to encyclopedias and edited books. He was the first Pakistani to be honoured by one of Germany’s highest awards for academic research called the Humboldt Research Award. He is a Distinguished National Professor in Pakistan and is noted for his academic interest in a number of subjects: linguistic history, sociolinguistics and recently, intellectual history and Islamic studies.