AIOU takes steps to counter Islamophobia July 5, 2021 Islamabad : Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is going to establish four different centres of excellence with varying objectives ranging from countering the growing Islamophobia especially in the Western world, to raise the analytical level of discourse in the Muslim scholarly community; to disseminate the philosophy and thought of Allama Muhammad Iqbal; to produce oral histories and train oral historians; and to promote Sufi thought based on the principles of love, peace, and equality. Executive Council, the supreme body of the university in its 120th meeting held here the other day under the chairmanship of Prof Dr Zia Ul Qayyum, Vice Chancellor AIOU gave formal approval for the establishment of Centres of Excellence of Seerat Studies, Sufi Studies, Iqbal Chair of Muslim Thoughts, and Creating Achieves Intelligentsia of Pakistan.