Inauguration

Recitation from the Quran National Anthems of India and Aghanistan

Remarks of the Guest of Honour : Mr. Hamid Tahzeeb,Secretary IAF, Delhi Chapter

Welcome Address : Ms. Somaia Ramish, President Naw andishan Cultural-Social Organization

Address of the Hon’ ble Governor of Herat Janab Mohammad Asif Rahimi

Address of the Hon’ ble Deputy Minister of Information and Culture Janab Syed Fazil Sancharki

Inaugural Address : Janab Syed Salman Chishty,Chairman Chishti Foundation, Ajmer Sharif

Remarks of the Chief Guest : H.E. Shri Kumar Gaurav,Consul General, Indian Consulate, Herat

Recitation of poem by the eminent poet : Janab Nasrullah Partaw Naderi

Address of President Literary Society of Herat : Professor Daud Munir

Presidential Address : Professor Syed Akhtar Husain,President Institute of Indo Persian Studies, India

Vote of Thanks : Professor Aleem Ashraf Khan,Vice President Institute of Indo Persian Studies, India

Sufi Music and Lunch

Academic Session

15:30-17:00

Chair : Syed Salman Chishty & Aleem Ashraf Khan

Syed Akhtar Husain

Mahmood Alam
A Few Treatises of Khwaja Gesudaraz Bandah Nawaz from the collection of Oriental Manuscript Library, Hyderabad and The Asiatic Society, Kolkata

Afsar Rahbeen
Khwaja Gharib Nawaz: A Patron of Arts

Naron Rejai
Chisht: A Cradle of the Saints of Chishti Order

4 Academic Session

14:30-15:30

Chair: Aleem Ashraf Khan & Mahmood Alam

Abid Hossain
Sufistic movement and its deep impact on the life and society of Bengal with special
reference to the role of the Sufis of Chishti Order

Md Firoz Alam
The Role of NCPUL in the Development of Sufism

Nasreen Hossain
Sufism in Bengal

Nadeem Akhtar

Valedictory