Tag Archives: Madarsah

Paying Back To The Madrasah

“Paying back to the madrasah” to me means keeping the divide between deen and dunyaa alive. Perpetuating the division between deeni and dunyaawee till eternity. Anyone who has followed my submissions will know that I stand against it. How could I then pay back to the madrasah without first contradicting myself? If I contradict myself it means I am not concerned about truth (which is free from self-contradiction) and that I don’t stand for anything. How can I not stand for anything knowing that our bane is that we do not know what we stand for? Continue reading

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Maulana Tariq Rashid Firangi Mahali on Madarsa Reforms

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

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Traditionalist ulema lead educational revolution in Kerala

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 … Continue reading

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Madrasa Reforms and the Deobandi Ulema’s Response

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 … Continue reading

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Interview with a Nadvi Maulana

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 … Continue reading

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Three Maulanas and Madrasas: Interviews

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 … Continue reading

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Hindu Students Studying Quran In A Madrasah

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. … Continue reading

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Young Muslim leadership from grass-roots

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 … Continue reading

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Picture Of The Day: Muslim Girls At The Mosque

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 … Continue reading

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IITs & IIMs exclusively for Muslims?

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, … Continue reading

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