Established | 1908 |
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Founder | Maulana Muhammad Shafi |
Religious affiliation | Islam |
Rector | Fakhrul Islam Islahi |
Principal | Mufti Saiful Islam Islahi |
Location | , , India |
Website | madrasatulislah |
Madrasatul Islah is a traditional Islamic institution of learning and a renowned center of oriental and Islamic studies at Sarai Mir [1] in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. [2] It was started by Mawlana Muhammad Shafi in 1908 along with participation of prominent scholars and religious seminaries of the area. [3] The madrassa was established with a different syllabus and ideology than that of Darul Uloom Deoband and Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama. [4] Shibli Nomani and Hamiduddin Farahi are regarded as chief architects of this madrasa. [5]
The foundation stone of the madrassa was laid by Asghar Hussain Deobandi in 1908. [6] Hamiduddin Farahi was its first chief administrator. [7] Amin Ahsan Islahi remained teaching in the madrassa until 1943. [8]
The Madrasa adopted a teaching style of reading the Qur'an text directly with less reliance on commentaries. [9] A newspaper article in 2009 indicated the madrasa has, in common with many others, introduced "modern, progressive syllabi". [10]
The madrassa has produced a number of notable Islamic scholars:
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Zafeeruddin Miftāhi was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as a Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband and the second president of Islamic Fiqh Academy. He compiled the religious verdicts of Azizur Rahman Usmani, called the Fatāwa Darul Uloom Deoband in twelve volumes and wrote books including Islām Ka Nizām-e-Masājid, Islām Ka Nizām Iffat-o-Asmat and Tārīkh-e-Masājid.
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This bibliography of Darul Uloom Deoband is a selected list of generally available scholarly resources related to Darul Uloom Deoband, a leading Islamic seminary and Muslim theological centre in India at which the Deobandi movement began, founded in 1866. It is one of the most influential reform movements in modern Islam. It created a largest network of satellite madrasas all over the world especially India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan neighboring countries in Asia and beyond, and as far afield as the Caribbean, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States. Islamic Revival in British India by Barbara D. Metcalf was the first major monograph specifically devoted to the institutional and intellectual history of Deoband. Syed Mehboob Rizwi wrote History of Darul Uloom Deoband in 1977 in 2 volumes. This list will include Books and theses written on Darul Uloom Deoband and articles published about Deoband in various journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, seminars, websites etc. in APA style. Only bibliography related to Darul Uloom Deoband will be included here, for Deobandi movement, see Bibliography of Deobandi Movement.
The Farahi school is the Islamic modernist school of thought originated in the Indian subcontinent. It is named after Hamiduddin Farahi, the student of the modernist Indian Hanafi scholar Shibli Nomani. Unlike, the traditional schools of thoughts, which focus more on Taqlid, it is more based on the self source of reasoning (Ijtihad).
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