Jamia Naeemia Moradabad
Jamia Naeemia Moradabad (Urdu: جامعہ نعیمیہ مراد آباد, Hindi: जामिया नईमिया मुरादाबाद) is an Islamic seminary of Ahle-Sunnat Muslims of India. It is located in Moradabad in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. [1][2] It was established with an express purpose: to combat the pernicious spread of “Wahhabism in India. [3]
Type | Islamic university |
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President | Syed Mehmood Ashraf Ashrafi |
Students | 1000+ (Approximately) |
Location | , , |
Website | jamianaimia |
History
It started off as a madrasa in the town of Moradabad. It was named 'Naeemia' after the name of Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi, a Sunni Islamic scholar. It has produced several leading ulemas of Sunni Sufi movement.[4]
In 1925 (1343H), an All India Sunni Conference’s first summit was organised at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad, whose aims included the unification of “the Sunni majority” under a single political, economic, and socio-religious platform. It was attended by the more than two hundred and fifty religious scholars. [5]
Courses
- Alim
- Fazil
- Maulvi
Fatwas
A Fatwa was issued against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for allegedly forcefully snatching land of cemetery grounds and other properties from the poor. Mufti Muhibbey Ali Naeemi, issued Fatwa.[6]
Notes
- "JAMIA NAIMIA". jamianaimia.com.
- Ali Riaz (3 September 2008). Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4562-2.
- Jackson, William Kesler, "A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia" (2013). History - Dissertations.page 152. https://surface.syr.edu/hst_etd/102
- 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.
- Jackson, William Kesler (2013), page 191
- "आजम खान के खिलाफ जारी हुआ फतवा, जानिए क्या है मामला?". Prabhat Khabar - Hindi News.