Jabir Raza

Jabir Raza (born 1 August 1955)^[1] is an Indian historian, and a researcher in the history stream. Presently, he is retired, used to work as a professor at the department of history and prior to that was working as a lecturer at Department of History in Women's College^[2] of Aligarh Muslim University.^[1] He is from Nalanda, Bihar.^[1]

Academic qualification

S. Jabir Raza has pursued Masters in Arts,^[2] and a M.Phil^[1] degree. He has also done Ph.D. with a specialization in Medieval India.^[2] He has also received the Charles Wallace fellowship from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1996.^[1]

Books and research papers published

• The Jats of Punjab and Sind: Their Settlements and Migrations (c. 5th-12th AD)^[3][4]
• The Martial Jats: Their conflict with the Ghaznavid Sultans^[5]
• Ghaznavid Origins of the Administrative Institutions of the Delhi Sultanat^[6]
• Epigraphic Evidence for Officials and Administrative Offices in the Delhi Sultanate^[7]
• Nomenclature and Titulature of the Early Turkish Sultans of Delhi Found in Numismatic Legends^[8]
• Iqta' system in the pre-Ghurid kingdoms and its antecedents^[9]
• The Afghans and their relations with the Ghaznavids and the Ghurids^[10]
• Sultan Mahmud's Military Route to Kannauj^[11]
• S. Jabir Raza has published 20 papers.^[1]

Notability

• One of the paper published by S. Jabir Raza was selected by the University Grants Commission (India) for its model curriculum: History and Archaeology, 2002.^[1]
• Two of the papers by him has been included in the syllabus of Jamia Hamdard University (New Delhi) and Centre Of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University.^[1]