Place · Unani teaching university · India
Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
Also known as Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard University
Jamia Hamdard at Tughlaqabad, New Delhi, grown out of the Hamdard Dawakhana founded by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed in 1906 and expanded by his son Hakim Abdul Hameed into one of India's two leading Unani teaching institutions (the other is the Nizāmia Tibbi College, Hyderabad). The campus houses the School of Unani Medical Education and Research, the Majeedia Hospital, the Bait-ul-Hikmat library of Unani manuscripts, and the Ghalib Academy; conferred the status of a deemed university in 1989. Hamdard Laboratories' flagship product Rooh Afza, invented at the Dawakhana in 1907, is sold across South Asia.
- Periods
- Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.516, 77.250
Connections (2)
- Founder ofHakim Ajmal Khan
Hakim Ajmal Khan founded the Hindustāni Dawākhāna (1906) and the Tibbia College (1916) that grew into Jamia Hamdard.
- Peer institutionUnani institutions, Hyderabad
Jamia Hamdard (Delhi) and the Nizāmia Tibbi College and hospital complex (Hyderabad) are India's two leading Unani teaching institutions.
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