Zubair Hamid

Dr. Zubair Hamid is currently engaged with teaching at Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir (On Contractual Basis) from last three years. He has graduated in Social Sciences from GDC Sopore, and completed his Masters in Islamic Studies (with a Gold Medal) from Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir (2013). He has been awarded Ph.D. on the topic “Islam and the West: A Critique of Said Nursi” from Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2019. He has published his research work in the journals published from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey and USA. He has contributed to the Edited Books and Encyclopedias as well. He has published some articles in the dailies of Kashmir. He has been a recipient of fellowships from IFSC (Turkey) 2016-2017 and IOS (New Delhi).  He has presented and participated in many national and international conferences and seminars. He has to his credit an edited book “The Poets of Kashmir: A Connection with Patrimony”. His areas of interest are Islam-West Discourse, Nursi Studies, Multiculturalism besides Sufism and Kashmir (Culture, History and Poetry).