Educational Spirit

Chancellorship

Upon the request of Aligarh Muslim University, he accepted its chancellorship and was unanimously re-elected to consecutive terms up until his sad demise in 1965. Syedna accepted an honorary doctorate in theology on 14th Jumād al-Ūlā, 1365 (15th April, 1946) from Aligarh Muslim University.

I have been systematically endeavouring in recent years to restructure this time-honoured Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah so as to harmonise its concepts, its curricula and its general outlook and perspective with the dynamics and the demands of the new age, without, at the same time doing any damage to the essentials and fundamentals of its original objectives. It has also been my effort to improve the quality, the standard and the diversity of the knowledge imparted in this institution so as to raise it to the status of a respected academy which would attract scholars from all places and from which would radiate rays of sober wisdom and light.