Al Jamiatul Ashrafia

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia (Urdu: الجامعۃ اُلاشرفیہ‎, Hindi: अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is an Islamic seminary of Ahle-Sunnat Muslims in India. It is located in Mubarakpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Not to be confused with Jamia Ashrafia.
Al Jamiatul Ashrafia
TypeIslamic university
PresidentMaulana Abdul Hafeez Moradabadi
Vice-presidentHaji Mohammad Nizamuddin Mubarakpuri
PrincipalMufti Nizamuddin Razvi
Students5500+ (Approximately)
Location
Mubarakpur, Azamgarh
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
Websitewww.aljamiatulashrafia.org

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 of Kichaucha. 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 moving Ashrafiyya to a larger campus. Scholars of the Barelwi Movement like Mustafa Raza Khan son of Ahmad Raza Khan along with Sufi Syedul Ulema Maulana Syed Ale Mustafa Quadri Barkati [3] and Allama Arshadul Qaudri laid the foundation stone with the mission of making it a University for Sunni Hanafi Islamic Ideology 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 institution has 3000 plus students in religious education centers with 256 faculty members and employees. Besides them there are more than 6000 boys and girls who pursue their studies in the boy’s primary, high and intermediate school / college and the girl’s primary and high school respectively. Al-Jamiatul Ashrafia has vocational training & technical institutes, hospitals and with branches all over India. The alumni are called ‘Misbahi’ according to its old name ‘Misbahul Uloom’.[6] Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian civil service Exam in 2019.[7][8]

Affiliation

The degrees of graduation and post graduation of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia are recognized by various universities including Maulana Azad Urdu University Hyderabad, Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. [9][10][11][12]

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. Though the body incorporated all the renowned muftis of the sect, it was not long before a number of such bodies started developing in the length and breadth of Jahan-e-Riza (the world of the followers of Imam Ahmed Riza Khan).[13]

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See also

Notes
  1. Sanyal 2008: 32
  2. Sanyal 2008: 33
  3. http://www.aljamiatulashrafia.in/aljamiatul-ashrafia.php?lang=EN
  4. Sanyal 2008: 34
  5. "Great Religious Leader of the 21st Century". Allama Azmi. Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
  6. http://www.aljamiatulashrafia.in/aljamiatul-ashrafia.php?lang=EN
  7. https://theprint.in/india/this-madrasa-graduate-is-in-line-to-be-ias-ips-officer-says-it-helped-him-crack-upsc-exam/225356/
  8. http://muslimmirror.com/eng/madrassa-educated-shahid-raza-khan-cracks-upsc-exam/
  9. https://www.amu.ac.in/newdata/depttmom/2424.pdf
  10. http://jnu.ac.in/admission/e-prospectus-2019-20.pdf
  11. https://www.jmi.ac.in/upload/advertisement/guideline_private_2014.pdf
  12. https://manuucoe.in/RegularAdmission/assets/pdf/List%20of%20Madarsa%20Programs%20approved%20by%20the%20University%20for%20Admissions%202019.pdf
  13. [Reader-List] relay Archived May 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

References

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