and was appointed its founding Director General in 1984. He also served as first Vice-President of the International Islamic University Islamabad. Anis introduced comparative religious studies in the faculty of Usul al-Din and taught and supervised research throughout his career as a meritorious professor of comparative religions. He left Pakistan to assist the International Islamic University Malaysia, at Kuala Lampur in development of a new faculty, i.e. Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage. As dean of this faculty he led his faculty members in realisating the concept of Islamization of knowledge. His involvement in the movement started in 1972 when the Association of Muslim Social Scientists was founded in Illinois Institute of Technology and he was elected as its secretary general and later became its president. During his involvement with AMSS, the concept of islamisation of knowledge was developed by Prof. Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi, the founding president of AMSS. Anis organised yearly seminars, conferences, workshops for economists, politicians, sociologists, psychologists, historians, religionists, anthropologists and linguists during his stay of over a decade in the US With a rich background in Islamization of Social Sciences he tried to translate this concept into the curriculum of Human Sciences at International Islamic University Malaysia. With the graduation of first batch of fifteen hundred students in the Kulliyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, he returned to International Islamic University in 1994. Academic contributions Anis introduced a course in integration of Islamic ethical values in social and applied sciences as university requirement in all programs offered by Riphah International University Islamabad (as founding Vice-Chancellor 2003-till date). This caters for ethics in practice, personality development, and identity development of studies. A similar initiative was taken by him to introduce a mandatory Post Graduate Diploma for all teachers of the University in Professional Ethics and Training Methodology. This provides two semester training in curriculum planning, evaluation methods, communication skills and ethical practices. At the International Islamic University Islamabad he introduced the scientific study of religion. He established department of comparative religion for interdisciplinary study of religion and to avoid polemical and theological controversies. He was able to attract students from China, Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bosnia Herzegovina and Mauritius to study comparative religion. He has made monthly contributions in the scholarly journal Tarjuman al-Qur'an offering legal views, based on the Qur'an and hadith in a non-sectarian, educative