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Akbar Husain is Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has obtained Ph.D. Degree in Psychology from the same University in 1981. He has successfully supervised 10 M.Phil dissertations and 18 Ph.D. theses. He is author/co-author of ten books and 125 research articles/papers. Prof. Husain has attended several National and International Conferences and Seminars. He has standardized numerous psychological tests and completed three research projects. He is Life Member and Annual Member of various National and International Associations. He served as Council Member, Regional Convenor, Regional President and Associate Secretary in the Indian Academy of Applied Psychology. At present he is an editor of the JIAAP. His current areas of research are: Stress and Health, Applied Gerontology, Spiritual Psychology and Positive Psychology.

Professor Moazziz Ali Beg was born on August 27, 1932 at Agra and after finishing his schooling in Agra, he graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1952. He took his M.S. from the University of Oregon in 1959 and his Ph.D. from the AMU in 1962. He taught in the Department of Psychology till 1989, till his retirement from there as Professor and Chairman of Department of Psychology. He joined Maharishi Dayanand University at Rohtak in 1990-91 as Visiting Professor, and latter on the joined the University of Roorkee as Visiting Scholar in 1991 and left in 1993. He is presently living in Lucknow. Dr. Beg is an Internationally known psychologist and has lectured in many Indian Universities and in Universities of Munich, California and Georgia where his work initiated considerable research on the Sufi and Vedantic thought. He is member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology, International Philosophers for Peace, University of Virginia, Chairman, Association of World Citizens (Lucknow Chapter), and academic associate of the Department of Higher Education, Lucknow University. He was MLA in UP Assembly from June 1977 to February 1980. His biography has come out from the US and UK in most prestigious books published by the International Biographical Institute, North Carolina and the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge.