Dr. Muhammad Waseem Anjum is an accomplished academic and educator with over 20 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience. He has served in various councils and committees at the Federal Urdu University and retired as the Head of the Urdu Department. Dr. Anjum holds multiple master’s degrees in Urdu, History, and Political Science. His academic journey includes a PhD on "IQBAL,S PERSPECTIVE ON RECONSTRUCTION OF ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE," an MPhil titled "Iqbal Studies in the Journal 'Nairang-e-Khayal': A Research Analysis," and an LLM on "Modern Law in the Light of the Quran." In addition to his formal education, he has attended professional courses on Anti-Narcotics, Library Science, Arabic (Al-Lisan Al-Arabi), and Persian language training. He is a lifetime member of the Iqbal Academy Pakistan (Lahore) and has received numerous accolades including HEC approval as a PhD supervisor, the Sharif Kunjahi Award, and an award from the Literary and Academic Forum on the fifth anniversary of Syed Bashir Hussain Jafri.
Dr. Anjum has served on the review committees of several HEC-recognized research journals such as Daryaft, Khayaban, Noor-e-Tahqeeq, Tehqiqat, Muhaqqiq, and Gohar-e-Tahqeeq. He has also worked as a subject expert in the faculty boards of studies at NUML (Islamabad), the National College of Business Administration and Economics (Lahore), and the University of Gujrat. His editorial contributions include work for newspapers and magazines such as Tehqiqat, Payam-e-Urdu, Ibadat (Monthly), Hotel Times (Weekly), and special issues of Nairang-e-Khayal, Shakar Ganj, and Armaghan-e-Adab.
As a supervisor, Dr. Anjum has guided 13 PhD theses have been completed and 5 ongoing, 24 have been completed MPhil theses (3 ongoing), and 5 MA theses also have been completed. He has examined 13 PhD, 25 MPhil, and 1 MA theses. With 46 research articles published in HEC-approved journals, and 39 creative, research, critical, and editorial books to his name, his contribution to Urdu scholarship is extensive. Moreover, 10 MPhil and 4 MA/BS theses have been written on his life and work, and 10 books have been published about his scholarly achievements.
