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Tag Archives: madrasa
Photo Essay: Girls Madrasa, Hyderabad
Lakshmi Prabhala is a talented young photographer from the city of Hyderabad. She specialized in portraits and capturing the everyday life of the city. In this photo-essay she clicks some frames at a Girls Madrasa in the city of Hyderabad. Continue reading
Al Jamia Al Islamiya: A Madrasa With a Difference
Located at Santhapuram, a township in the Mallapuram district some eighty kilometers from Calicut, the Jamia al-Islamiya is one of the largest Islamic seminaries in Kerala. Established in 1955 by activists associated with the Kerala unit of the Jamaat-e Islami, and considerably expanded since then, the Jamia offers a wide range of courses and seeks to combine Islamic and modern subjects Continue reading
Madrasa Reforms And Inter-Faith Dialogue
Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani speaks to Yoginder Sikand on Madrasa reforms, incorporation of English and Science in Madrasa curriculum and role played be Madrasas in interfaith dialogue . Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Politics, Society
Tagged Deoband, Fiqh, Hindu, ijtihad, India, Indian Muslims, Islam, Islamic scholar, madrasa, muslims, ulema
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Islam, Muslims And Terrorism
Is there anything to the allegation that Islam and terrorism are related? Continue reading
Posted in Islam
Tagged Conference, Deoband, Fatwa, Islam, jihad, Journalism, madrasa, muslim, Prophet, Terrorism, Violence
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Should Clerics Dominate The Nation’s Muslim Leadership?
Why the Indian Muslim is dominated by the clerics and should it continue? Continue reading
Posted in Society
Tagged bjp, Education, hindu-muslim-unity, India, Islam, leadership-problems, madrasa, media, mosque, muslim, Terrorism
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Jamiat in Jeopardy: Uncle-Nephew Strife Splits Leading Indian Ulema Body
The power grabbing politics, contrary to the ‘Islamic’ lip-service, leading to Jamiat split Continue reading
The Problem of Caste among Indian Muslims
The book explores the tradition of un-Islamic practice of caste in the Indian Muslim society Continue reading
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
Posted in Book Review, Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Deobandi, indian-madarsa, madarsa, Madarsah, madrasa, Yoginder-Sikand
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Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview
Waris Mazhari, a leading Islamic scholar, is the editor of the New Delhi-based Tarjuman-i Dar ul-Ulum, the official organ of the Old Boys’ Association of the Deoband Madrasa. In this interview he talks about the problems that mark inter-sectarian relations … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Indian-Islam, indian-madarsa, Indian-Muslim, interview, madarsa, madrasa, sects, waris-mazhari, Yoginder-Sikand
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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
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Darul-Uloom, Deobandi, madarsa, Madarsah, madrasa, militancy, Shia, Terrorism, Yoginder-Sikand
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