Anis Ahmad (Urdu: انیس احمد; b. 23 March 1944; popularised as Professor Doctor Anis) is a Pakistani social scientist, an educationist, and professor of Islam. He is recipient of award, by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, awarded fellowship by the University Science Malaysia, also earned meritorious professorship at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. As first Vice-President of International Islamic University, Islamabad, he visualised and founded the Da’wah Academy of the I.I.U.I, he was the first Dean of the Faculty of Usul al-din and Faculty of Social Sciences of the IIU at Islamabad. He was first Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences of the International Islamic University, Malaysia. Biography Anis Ahmad was born into an educated and religiously oriented family. Anis was encouraged to study poetry and memorise couplets from Iqbal, Ghalib, Hali and other classical poets. Initially his mother tutored him in English and Urdu and his father taught him Persian. Anis studied at Sindh Madrasatul Islam, in Karachi, which was alma mater of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. He later joined Sindh Muslim College at Karachi and got his Bachelors in Philosophy and Psychology. He represented his college in inter university debates and was editor of Urdu section of college magazine. He pursued his masters in department of Islamic History at the University of Karachi and secured first class in his exams. He was elected in the student's union of the university; he also served as general secretary of Islamic History Society and organised intellectual activities. After completing his masters in 1963 he was appointed as lecturer in the department of Islamic history at University of Karachi. He contributed articles in Urdu and English journals. He taught at Karachi University till 1969, when he was offered scholarship by the Temple University Pennsylvania. He did his M.A. and PhD from Temple University in Islamic and Comparative Religion. He also taught at Appalachian State University and Temple University till 1981 when he was invited by the International Islamic University, Islamabad to establish faculty of Islamic Learning (Kulliyah Usul al-Din). He joined the university in 1981 as Directory of Department of Da'wah and Qir'at which was re-designated as Kulliyah Usul al-Din in 1983. He was appointed as the first dean of the faculty. He also initiated idea of a continuing education and training centre of the university under the name Da'wah Academy