Tag Archives: madrasa

Photo Essay: Girls Madrasa, Hyderabad

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Guest Post

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 →

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Al Jamia Al Islamiya: A Madrasa With a Difference

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Yoginder Sikand

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 →

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Madrasa Reforms And Inter-Faith Dialogue

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Yoginder Sikand

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 →

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Islam, Muslims And Terrorism

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Asghar Ali Engineer

Is there anything to the allegation that Islam and terrorism are related? Continue reading →

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Should Clerics Dominate The Nation’s Muslim Leadership?

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Kaleem Kawaja

Why the Indian Muslim is dominated by the clerics and should it continue? Continue reading →

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Jamiat in Jeopardy: Uncle-Nephew Strife Splits Leading Indian Ulema Body

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Yoginder Sikand

The power grabbing politics, contrary to the ‘Islamic’ lip-service, leading to Jamiat split Continue reading →

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The Problem of Caste among Indian Muslims

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Ayub Khan

The book explores the tradition of un-Islamic practice of caste in the Indian Muslim society Continue reading →

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Madrasa Reforms and the Deobandi Ulema’s Response

Posted on December 3, 2007 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 … Continue reading →

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Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Yoginder Sikand

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 →

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Three Maulanas and Madrasas: Interviews

Posted on September 11, 2007 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 … Continue reading →

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