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Academic or institutional research on religions in Bangladesh is
relatively a new adventure by some recent academics. Prof Joseph
T O'Connell, Prof Emeritus of the University of Toronto, Canada,
has initiated such a research work with his colleagues at Dhaka
University as a Visiting Professor of the Dept of World
Religions, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Azam Khan, Assistant Professor of Bogra Govt College is pursuing
PhD on Khwaja Enayetpuri's Life and Philosophy. He has done some
works on Enayetpuri in this MPhil thesis.
Khwaja Enayetpuri is the only Sufi Saint in Bangladesh, a short
article of whose life is found in
Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophers,
edited by Oliver Leaman, Continuum, London, 2006
International Association of
Sufism, a well-reputed Sufi Center in California, USA
publishes a Sufi Journal called Sufism: An Inquiry. The
journal has published some articles on Khwaja Enayetpuri.
The Dept of Philosophy, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka,
Bangladesh annually brings out a research journal entitled
Copula. The volume 19 of this journal published an article
on Khwaja Enayetpuri's some aspects of Sufism.
Prof Dr Golam Dastagir,
former Chairman of the Dept of Philosophy, Jahangirnagar
University, Dhaka, Bangladesh is currently on leave and doing
research on Khwaja Enayetpuri's Sufism at the Centre for South
Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada under the guidance
of Prof Joseph T O'Connell.
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