Zafarul Islam Islahi

Zafarul Islam Islahi (born 1950) is Professor and Chairman of Department of Islamic Studies at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh India and a member of Management Committee of Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh India. He is also Secretary of Idarah Ulumul Quran, Aligarh India and a Historian, Islamic, Quarnic scholar.

Islahi, born in 1950, belonged to Chitteypur (Azamgarh, U.P.). He obtained the degree of Al-Fazilat from Madrasatul Islah (Sarai Mir, Azamgarh), and completed Fazil-i-Adab and B.A. from Lucknow University (Lucknow). He did his M.A., M.Phil. & PhD in history from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. For M.Phil. and PhD, he worked on Agrarian Law of the Mughal Empire and Concept of State and Law in the Mughal Empire respectively. For about five years (1980–1984), he worked as Research Associate in the Department of History (A.M.U., Aligarh). He joined the Department of Islamic Studies (A.M.U., Aligarh) as lecturer on 31 October 1984. Presently, he is Professor & Chairman in the same department.