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Photo Essay: Girls Madrasa, Hyderabad

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.

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Al Jamia Al Islamiya: A Madrasa With a Difference

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

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Madrasa Reforms And Inter-Faith Dialogue

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 .

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Islam, Muslims And Terrorism

by Asghar Ali Engineer

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

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Should Clerics Dominate The Nation’s Muslim Leadership?

by Kaleem Kawaja

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

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

by Yoginder Sikand

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

The Problem of Caste among Indian Muslims

by Ayub Khan

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

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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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Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview

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 among the Indian Muslim ulema.  
YS: The Quran and Hadith places much stress on the [...]

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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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