JAMIA HAMDARD

JAMIA HAMDARD

The history of Jamia Hamdard begins with the establishment of a small unani clinic in the year 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, a well known practitioners of the unani system of medicine. He had a vision of making the practice of unani medicine into a scientific discipline so that it could be dispensed in a more efficacious manner to patients. He gave the name Hamdard to his venture which means ‘sympathy for all and sharing of pain’. His son, Hakeem Abdul Hameed, carried forward his father's philosophy. Its emblem is circular and green in colour with an open book in the middle of a pair of laurels crested by a star and crescent and supported by its name in Persian. The open book has the motto of the university in Persian ‘الكتاب والحكمة’ meaning ‘The Book and Wisdom’. The star and the crescent its affiliation to Islam and the open book symbolises knowledge and wisdom. The laurels symbolise victory, achievement and success.