Chancellor of Dr. Moulvi Abdul Haq Urdu University, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh. The appointment has been notified by the Higher Education Department of Andhra Pradesh government for a period of four years, UoH said in a statement.
Vijaywada: Prof. K Muzaffer Ali Shahmiri, Professor and Head, Department of Urdu, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been appointed as the founding Vice-Chancellor of Dr. Moulvi Abdul Haq Urdu University, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
The appointment has been notified by the Higher Education Department of Andhra Pradesh government for a period of four years, UoH said in a statement.
Ali studied at Vemana zilla parishad high school, Kadiri, Anantapur and graduated in History,
Philosophy and Urdu. He completed his post-graduation in Urdu from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati and got his Ph.D in 1989.
His areas of work include poetics; classical Urdu literature; Urdu drama; modern prose & poetry; modern and postmodern criticism; genres of Urdu literature; metaphorical studies in Urdu literature & Quran, it was stated.
