Vice Chancellor
May 14, 2024 2024-05-28 13:14Vice Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Anis Ahmad
Prof. Dr. Anis Ahmad is a social scientist of international repute and founding Vice-Chancellor of Riphah International University. He carries a Ph.D. from the Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA. He has held numerous academic leadership positions both nationally and internationally. He is former Vice President of International Islamic University, Islamabad, and founding Dean, Faculty of Revealed Knowledge & Human Sciences, International Islamic University, Malaysia. He is former President & Secretary-General of Association of Muslim Social Scientists, USA, and a Fellow of The University of Sains Malaysia. He writes on contemporary social, political, and cultural issues faced by the Muslim Ummah. He has contributed articles in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Muslims World, New York, the Encyclopedia of Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, the Encyclopedia of Islamic Economy, London, the Muslim World Book Review, UK, and other professional journals.
Vice Chancellor’s Message:
“Welcome to Riphah, the seat of higher education, learning and research. Your learning experience at Riphah shall, in-sha-Allah, help you in not only improving your level of knowledge but also assist in developing leadership qualities, the culture of research, and awareness about your social responsibility. Our mission statement tells you in the shortest possible words about our dream to excel in education while building the ethical and moral caliber of our students. This is our view is the essence of education.
Education essentially means the inculcation of values in order to civilize, initiate comprehensive development, progress, and social change. Universities all over the world act as engines of change through the production of knowledge. In our case, our faith makes seeking knowledge an obligation on every Muslim male and female. Our Book on every page invites us to search, learn, ponder, investigate, conduct research, develop critical and analytical thinking and come up with solutions for emerging problems. This great task calls for sincerity (ikhlas), conviction (iman), continuous effort (sabr), and persistence in our striving (istiqamah) with innovative strategies (ijtihad), and ongoing concentrated initiatives (jihad).
The university is committed to inculcate global Islamic ethical values of truthfulness, honesty, trusteeship, social responsibility, and courage. We want to produce leaders in knowledge with uprightness, the strength of character, and humbleness. Riphah is a movement for intellectual leadership of the Muslim ummah with a focus on the integration of Islamic ethical values in scientific research and development.”
