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Not the Whole Truth: My Life and Times
[Hardback - 2024]
tariq rahman
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Publisher: Ilqa Publications | ISBN: 9789696403074 | Pages: 604
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Tariq Rahman's autobiography can be enjoyed for its accessible and humorous style of writing. It reads like a story of a certain sub-culture of Pakistani society which touches upon lived life in the armed forces and universities of the country. It also touches upon life in other countries and some of the world's top universities: University of California, Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford and Heidelberg. It is also of interest for both social and academic historians since they can cross check certain accounts of trends, fashions and attitudes in different walks of life in Pakistan and abroad. It provides valuable insights into the way universities functioned and how research was done in Pakistan between the 1980s till 2024. The author's way of functioning may not be the typical way in which most academics functioned but still it provides some understanding of the processes of conducting research, publishing and teaching. It is relevant to mention that there is paucity of biographical accounts of academics in Pakistan. This autobiography, therefore, is an attempt to fill in this gap in biographical literature.

About the Author

Tariq Rahman has two doctoral degrees: PhD (1985) and DLitt (2014) from the University of Sheffield. Both have been awarded by examination. He was the first Pakistani to be honoured by one of Germany's highest awards for academic research called the Humboldt Research Award. The president of Pakistan conferred upon him the Pride of Performance in 2004 and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2013. The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan made him a distinguished national professor in 2004 and also gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. The National Institute of Pakistan Studies where he served as a professor and director made him a professor emeritus. He is a Salzburg seminar fellow (2017); a member of the Common Room at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has been the first incumbent of the Pakistan Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a senior Fulbright scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (1995-96), the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2010) and the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is presently a professor in the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore.

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