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Maulana Tariq Rashid Firangi Mahali on Madarsa Reforms

by Yoginder Sikand

Interview on madarsa syllabus reforms and the institution of Firangi Mahal.

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Traditionalist ulema lead educational revolution in Kerala

by Yoginder Sikand

Kerala’s Muslims are unique among their co-religionists in India in fashioning a system of education that enables their children to attend both religious as well as regular schools at the same time. Muslims account for around a fourth of Kerala’s population, and the state’s Muslims, known as Mapillas, are among the most literate of the [...]

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Madrasa Reforms and the Deobandi Ulema’s Response

by Yoginder Sikand

Recent years have witnessed heated debates on the question of reforms in the system of madrasa education in South Asia. Spurred principally by a chain of political developments, governments, policy making institutions, think tanks, journalists, public intellectuals, social activists as well as the ulema of the madrasas themselves have been discussing the issue, often [...]

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Interview with a Nadvi Maulana

by Yoginder Sikand

Maulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi, Dean of the Faculty of Shariah at the renowned Nadwat ul-Ulama madrasa in Lucknow and member of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, is a senior Indian Muslim scholar. In this interview, he talks about various aspects related to madrasas in contemporary India.
 
YS: Today, madrasas in general suffer from a bad [...]

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Three Maulanas and Madrasas: Interviews

by Yoginder Sikand

We present here three interviews of well-known Maulanas over the issues of Madrasas and allegations against them and on inter-communal harmony. The three Maulanas are

Maulana Asrar ul-Haq Qasmi, a graduate of the Deoband madrasa, is the founder and director of the Delhi-based All-India Ta’limi-o Milli Foundation.
Maulana Saeed ur-Rahman is the principal of the renowned Nadwat [...]

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Hindu Students Studying Quran In A Madrasah

by Mohib Ahmad

In Partnership With TwoCircles.net
Patna: Madrasa Madinat-ul Islam is just like any other Madarsa in India. But a few students make this Madarsa different and very special. These students are Ashish Vidyarthi and Hemlata. They are the children of Mr. Dilip Kumar Chaudhury, an Indian Railway employee.
Ashish is 6-years-old and Hemlata is 9-years-old. They are studying [...]

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Young Muslim leadership from grass-roots

by Kashif

Syed Shahabuddin continue to impress me with his articles, he is one of the best living intellectual minds of Indian Muslims. About a year ago he restarted his publication “Muslim India.” If nothing else in that magazine, his editorial is reason enough to subscribe this journal.
The editorial of April issue of Muslim India is [...]

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Picture Of The Day: Muslim Girls At The Mosque

by Mohib Ahmad

Anyone who has gone to mosque to take Arabic lessons as a kid can identify with this pic. I love the way the girls are shying from a stranger with one of them peeping through an eye. The shot was clicked in Agra.

Picture courtesy Jeroen van Keel at Flickr. I have also added this beautiful [...]

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IITs & IIMs exclusively for Muslims?

by Sharique

Few of the Muslim MPs have demanded opening of separate IITs and IIMs for Muslims
A senior HRD official, present at the meeting, said, “The MPs said since IITs and IIMs have less than 2 per cent of Muslim students, the HRD Ministry should create IITs and IIMs exclusively for Muslim children.”
Well the big question is [...]

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Saluting Shaukat: Saved 70 Children, His Own Family Drowned

by Adnan Alavi

On this Teachers’ Day as shocked nation is yet to recover from the murder of Professor Sabharwal in Madhav College in Ujjain, we must salute the supreme sacrifice of Shaukat, the madarsa teacher, who saved 70 children of his madarsa even as his entire family 0f 24 was washed away in the flood in Barmer [...]

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