History

The Department of Arabic is one of the oldest departments in the University dating back to 1922, the year of the inception of Delhi University. However, the department was not an independent until the late sixties when it got an independent entity. At first, the classes used to be held at St. Stephen College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi. To begin with, the renowned erudite personalities such as Shamsul Ulama Maulana Abdur Rahman and Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akberabadi rendered their services for the department. In the late fifties the department of Arabic with its sister departments- the Department of Persian and Urdu- was shifted to the well-known Arts Faculty Building.