Website with ‘largest digitization work’ launched at AMU

ALIGARH - A website on an Islamic reformer, claimed to be the largest digitization work dedicated to any person or institution in the country, was launched Friday by Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) vice-chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis, an official said.

“The website, www.sirsyedtoday.org, has been designed by AMU alumnus Masarrat Ali, who has claimed it is the largest digitization work on any individual or institution in India,” AMU official spokesperson Rahat Abrar told reporters here.

“The website has more than 110,000 pages of historical documents related to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of AMU, and history of the varsity,” he added.

The website was launched at the central hall of Maulana Azad Library of AMU. Aligarh is about 300 km from Lucknow.

Ali, who has designed the website, joined AMU in 1971 and received a gold medal in M.Sc. (Biochemistry) in 1977.

He is the first Indian Muslim who was nominated as an official candidate of US President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party to run for the House of Representatives elections in Texas, a statement issued by the varsity said.

According to Ali, the purpose of the website was to revive the Aligarh Movement. It is his humble tribute to the founder of his alma mater, the statement added.