TY - JOUR
AU - Dietl, Gulshan
AB - In Memoriam Contemporary Review Professor M. S. Agwani of the Middle East 5(4) 289–290 1928–2018 2018 SAGE Publications India Private Limited SAGE Publications sagepub.in/home.nav DOI: 10.1177/2347798918795362 http://journals.sagepub.com/home/cme Professor Mohammed Shafi Agwani, the doyen of the Middle Eastern studies in India, was born in Udaipur in 1928. Early in his career, he was awarded the Netherlands University’s Foundation for Cooperation Fellowship for the years 1952–1954, during which he wrote his doctoral thesis on The US and the Arab World: 1945–1952 at the University of Utrecht under the supervision of Professor C. D. J. Brandt. After a brief tenure in Aligarh Muslim University, Professor Agwani joined the Indian School of International Studies in 1957 and became professor in 1965. In 1970, the Indian School of International Studies merged with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and became School of International Studies. Since then he conducted extensive research on various aspects of the modern West Asia/ Middle East. A large number of future experts and students of the region, including Professor K. R. Singh and ourself, have been his students. Through his 35-year-long career at the University, Professor Agwani served as the founder-director of the Gulf Studies Program (1978–1988), the Chairperson of the Centre 
TI - Professor M. S. Agwani 1928–2018
JF - Contemporary Review of the Middle East
DO - 10.1177/2347798918795362
DA - 2018-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/professor-m-s-agwani-1928-2018-SEstmLGsDv
SP - 289
EP - 290
VL - 5
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -