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Waheed-uz-Zaman (January 2, 1927-October 1, 1988) was among the first generation of Pakistani social scientists. Educated at the Punjab and Toronto universities, the academic and historian taught at Gordon College, Rawalpindi, University of Peshawar, and Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad. He served as the first chairperson of the QAU’s Department of History (1973), dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (1977), and acting vice-chancellor (1978). He was posted in Tehran as executive director of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) Cultural Institute from 1979 to 1982. During his stay in Iran, he initiated research for this book and witnessed many of the events of that tumultuous period. He then served as director of the National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, QAU, from 1982 till his death on October 1, 1988. The major works that he authored include Towards Pakistan (1964), Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: Myth and Reality (1976), Quaid-i-Azam: The Founder of the Islamic State of Pakistan (Persian, 1981), and Iranian Revolution: A Profile (1985). His major edited works include The Quest for Identity (1975) and Islam in South Asia (published posthumously, 1993). A seminar hall was named after Dr. Waheed-uz-Zaman on the 50th anniversary of the QAU’s Department of History to commemorate his life and work.
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