Department of Persian,Arabic and Urdu:

Department of Persian, Arabic and Urdu was established in 1881. It is one of the oldest Departments of the University offer courses in Persian at undergraduate, post-graduate and Ph.D. levels. It also offers Certificate and Diploma courses in Modern Persian. So far, five Ph.D. degrees have been awarded in Persian.  Its thrust areas are Classical and Modern Persian Language and Literature as well as Persian literature produced in India, especially in Gujarat.

 Arabic is taught at Certificate, Diploma, FYBA, SYBA, and Ph.D. Levels. Till date, two Ph.D. Degrees have been awarded in Arabic. The thrust areas of Arabic are Modern Arabic Language and Literature.

Department also offer Urdu, which is one of the richest language of our country, is taught at FYBA, SYBA and Ph.D. levels. Till now, Seven Ph.D. Degrees have been awarded in Urdu. Its thrust areas are Urdu Language, Literature and Criticism. Its thrust areas are Modern Urdu Language and Literature, Criticism and Urdu Literature produced in Gujarat.

This is the only Department in the state of Gujarat where Ph.D. facilities in all the three languages i.e. Persian, Arabic and Urdu is available.

Foreign students from Sudan, Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and U.S.A. etc. also join the courses run by the Department.

14 Ph.D. Degrees have been awarded (Five in Persian, Two in Arabic and Seven in Urdu)

Four President Awards have been received by our former staff members and one alumnus:
 
(a) Dr. M. G. Qureshi one of the alumni of the Department was awarded the Certificate of Honour (commonly known as President Award) in Persian for the year 2002.

(b) Prof. Waheed Ashraf an ex-member of the Department was awarded the Certificate of Honour (Commonly known as President Award) in Persian. He was also awarded the Gujarat Gaurav Puraskar in 2005.

(c) Prof. M.H. Siddiqui one of our ex-member of the Department was awarded the Certificate of Honour known as President Award in Persian in 2013-14.

(d) Prof Maqsood Alam one of our ex-member of the Department was awarded the Certificate of Honour known as President Award in Arabic in 2018-19

MOU:  Department of Persian Arabic & Urdu, Signed MOU with Iran Culture House Mumbai on 03- 01- 2021.

Number of Teaching Posts: 06
Number of Vacant Posts: 06
Assistant Professors – 04 Persian (01- Professor + 04 Assistant Professor) 01 in Arabic and 01 in Urdu.