The Vice-Chancellor
Professor Dr. Anis Ahmad
Professor Dr. Anis Ahmad is a social scientist of international repute and founding Vice-Chancellor of Riphah International University. He has a PhD from 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 and 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 Encyclopaedia of the Modern Muslims World, New York, the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Istanbul, Turkey, the Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economy, London, the Muslim World Book Review, UK, and other professional journals.
Message From The Vice-Chancellor
Welcome to Riphah, the seat of higher education, learning and research. Your learning experience at Riphah shall, Insha Allah, help you not only in improving your level of knowledge but also assist you in developing leadership qualities, the culture of research, and awareness about your social responsibility. Our mission statement tells, in the shortest possible words, about our dream to excel in education while building the ethical and moral behaviour of our students.
This, in our view, is the essence of education. Education essentially means the inculcation of values to civilization, 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 producing beneficial (nafi’) 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.
The university is committed to inculcate global Islamic ethical values of truthfulness, honesty, integrity, 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 focus on the integration of Islamic ethical values in scientific research and development.