Adil Mehdi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is the Imam Tirmizi scholar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford and he was the visiting professor to the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, at the University of

California, Berkeley, USA, in 1999. Adil is also the recipient of the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship. He has published widely and translates from Urdu to English.