Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Professor of English, with two Ph.D.s in English, including one from the University of Leicester, UK, has a special interest in the following areas of study: Literary Orientalism/English Translations of the Quran/Urdu-English-Urdu Translation/Inter Faith Dialogue! Islam in the West. Have 40 books to his credit, including some edited ones.

Overseen the organization of 100s of Faculty Development programmes as Director/Project Coordinator of the UGCHRDC/Union Ministry of Education CALEM.