Islamabad: Dr. Sahibzada Sajid ur Rehman, Acting President of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) has said scholars should chart out guidelines for conducting research and producing various genres of meaningful literary works in the postcolonial era.
“This is because to help avoid researchers in their literary research and works beating the drums cleverly presented by the colonizers and neo-colonizers,” he said addressing to a three day international conference on “ Literary Present and Postcolonial Condition” organized by the Department of English, International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.
Renowned scholars from Pakistan, India, Nigeria, England, Canada and North America presented their research papers during the various sessions of the conference.
Dr. Sajid ur Rehman draw the attention of the participants and scholars to an important point in this regards that history is a jumble of information pitched in by the writers of various viewpoints, friends and foes alike.
He questioned that do the scholars and syllabi of the US, UK, Germany, France and other nations evaluate their heroes from view point of the others?
He went on saying “In such situation the foremost responsibility of our scholars and researchers here is to guide our young scholars by constructing through their painstaking research what was destructed and destroyed by the colonizers; the literature, the system of the education and social welfare as well as the system spiritual and civilisational reform, both for Muslims and non-Muslims.
“All this information is scattered in the annals of History, travelogues and literature of various kinds recorded in Arabic, Persian and other local languages.”
Dr. Sajid Said that it is the responsibility of our department of English literature and similarly the other departments to take advantage of the presence of scholars of various disciplines in this international seat of learning.
“They should not only commission multidisciplinary MS and PhD dissertations under the co-supervisions of the scholars of various specializations to explore the rich literary and intellectual heritage of the Muslims in the subcontinent but also turn the focus of their own research to this filed.”
Dr. Munawar Iqbal Gondal, Dean Faculty of Language and Literature, IIUI, Dr. Masood Raja, Dr. Safeer Awan, Student Advisor Male, Dr. Abid Masood, Asst. Professor and Dept. of English IIUI also addressed on the occasion. At the end Dr. Sahibzada Sajid ur Rehman awarded shields to the distinguish guests of the conference.
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