Al Jamiatul Ashrafia

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia
Other name
Ashrafia
TypeIslamic university
FounderShah Abdul Azeez Muradabadi
PresidentAbdul Hafeez Moradabadi
Vice-presidentVacant
PrincipalMufti Badr-e-Alam Misbahi
DirectorAllama Abdul Aziz Muradabadi (Hafiz-e-Millat)
Administrative staff
150+
Studentsc. 5500+
Location
Mubarakpur, Azamgarh
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
Websitewww.aljamiatulashrafia.org

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia (Urdu: الجامعۃ اُلاشرفیہ, Hindi: अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is a Sunni Madrasa in India. It is located in Mubarakpur in a Northern State of India, Uttar Pradesh.

History

It started off as a madrasa called Misbah al-Ulum in 1898 in the town of Mubarakpur of what was then British India.[1] It was named 'Ashrafia' after Syed Shah Ali Hussain Ashraf Kichauchhvi. After struggling for many years and moving locations several times, a new building was constructed using funds raised by Hafiz Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi. This was the site for the school now known as Dar al-Ulum Ahl-i Sunnat or Misbah al-Ulum.[2]

Realizing that the site was becoming too small, Hafiz Abd al-Aziz organized an educational conference in May 1972 to discuss for moving Ashrafia to a larger campus. Scholars of the Barelvi movement such as Mustafa Raza Khan son of Ahmad Raza Khan along with Maulana Syed Ale Mustafa Quadri Barkati[3] and Arshadul Qadri laid the foundation stone with the mission of making it a university for Sunni Hanafi Islam in 1972 at a site outside the city of Azamgarh.[4] Key figures such as Allama Ziyaul Mustafa, Allama Arshadul Qaudri, Allama Mumtaz Ahmad Ashraful Qadri, Mufti Abdul Mannan, Maulana Shafi, Qari Yehya and Qamaruzzaman Azmi worked with Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi to raise the required funds to build the institution.[5]

About the institution

The Jamia has 5000 plus students in religious education centers with 256 faculty members and employees. Besides them there are more than 6000 boys and girls in various educational institutions of the Jamia. The alumni are called ‘Misbahi’ according to its old name ‘Misbahul Uloom’.[3] Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian Civil Service Exam in 2019.[6][7]

Affiliation

The degrees of graduation and post graduation of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia are recognized by various universities including Maulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad,[8] Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),[9] Jamia Millia Islamia,[10] and Aligarh Muslim University.[11]

Set up of Sunni Board

In 1992, under the auspices of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Mobarakpur, the Jurisprudential Board was set up as a body of Muftis.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Sanyal 2008: 32.
  2. ^ Sanyal 2008: 33.
  3. ^ a b "Al Jamiatul Ashrafia: An Introduction". www.aljamiatulashrafia.in. Archived from the original on 16 January 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  4. ^ Sanyal 2008: 34.
  5. ^ "Great Religious Leader of the 21st Century". Allama Azmi. Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
  6. ^ Sharma, Kritika (23 April 2019). "This madrasa graduate is in line to be IAS, IPS officer, says it helped him crack UPSC exam". Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Madrasa educated Shahid Raza Khan cracks UPSC exam". 6 April 2019. Archived from the original on 8 December 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  8. ^ "List of Madarsa Programs approved by the University for Admissions 2019-20" (PDF). Maulana Azad National Urdu University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  9. ^ "e-PROSPECTUS JNUEE 2019-20" (PDF). Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Application Guidance" (PDF). Jamia Millia Islamia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  11. ^ "LIST OF THE COURSES OF MADARSAS WHICH HAVE BEEN GIVEN RECOGNITION FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADMISSION IN ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, ALIGARH FROM SINCE 2012 TILL DATE = 59" (PDF). Aligarh Muslim University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2019.

Bibliographies

  • Alam, Arshad (29 November 2020). Inside a Madrasa: Knowledge, Power and Islamic Identity in India. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-08366-8.
  • Sanyal, Usha (2008). "Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: the Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur". In Jamal, Malik (ed.). Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching terror?. Routledge. pp. 23–44. ISBN 9780415442473.

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