Universidad de al-Azhar
Unlike many of his colleagues who have only received degrees from madrassas, Pirzada is a "refined product" of Al-Azhar University, studied and researched in World Comparative religions there, under reputed religious and divinity research scholars of Al-Azhar University. After four years, Syed Abdul Khaliq Pirzada completed and published his master's thesis on Dawat-El-Islam with thesis and was awarded M.A in Religious Studies from the Al-Azhar University Cairo Egypt. After five years of M.Phil. in 1992 he completed his Ph.D. and published his thesis on World Comparative Religions.