Shah-i-Hamdan Institute of Islamic Studies was established in 1988. The Institute offers PG, M.Phil., Ph.D. and Integrated M.Phil-Ph.D. programmes to the aspirants of higher education. The Institute has produced maximum number of NET/SET/JRF/SRF in the School of Social Sciences in the University. The Institute publishes an annual academic and research journal Insight Islamicus, the articles of which are internationally indexed in Index Islamicus, London, UK. The Institute besides encouraging the critical, objective and analytical thinking aims to promote human values of high ethical significance and contemporary relevance like; Composite Culture, Communal Harmony, Tolerance, Impartiality, Co-existence and Pluralistic outlook of the society. The Deparmental library besides housing about 15,000 books has a repository of a good number of rare manuscripts authored by a renowned sufi, scholar, reformer and thinker Sayyid ‘Ali Hamadani ^(RA). The Department has a Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) in place. Tasawwuf (Sufism), Comparative Study of Religions, Ethics, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Religious Sciences, Study of Various Cultures and Civilizations, Thinkers, Trends and Movements are some of the important components of our curriculum. We are committed to excellence with a motto to work relentlessly to make our Institute  a real centre of academic excellence.