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Late Hakeem Abdul Hameed (Sept. 1908-July, 1999), conceived of an institution of higher learning devoted to the Research and Development of Unani Medicine, Islamic Studies and Muslim Civilisation, by forming a Trust of Hamdard National Foundation, in the year 1962, utilising his own resources. Later on a group of institutions, popularly known as Hamdard Nagar Institutes (HNI), viz., Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, Indian Institute of  Islamic Studies, Hamdard College of Pharmacy, Hamdard Tibbi College, Majeedia Hospital and Rufaida School of Nursing came up one after another. Realising the importance and uniqueness of activities of this group of Institutions, the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, under section 3 of the UGC Act, granted the status of “Deemed to be University” to the group of the institutes in May 1989 and was named as “Jamia Hamdard”.

The University was inaugurated on August 1, 1989 by the then Prime Minister, Late Sri Rajeev Gandhi. This is presently the only Institution in the country which has the unique feature of interfacing Unani and Modern diagnostic and treatment methods and is undertaking teaching and research programmes, in novel disciplines like Federal Studies, Medical Elementology and Toxicology, and in the field of Pharmaceutical Medicine, even upto the doctoral level, apart from other allied disciplines. Recently job-oriented postgraduate programmes, in Computer Applications, Information Technology, Business Management, and Physiotherapy, have also been started.