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Template:Infobox university Jamia Naeemia Moradabad (Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is an Islamic seminary in India. It is located in Moradabad in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.[1][2] The seminary is a major center of the Barelvi movement in India and has been the target of violence by the rival Deobandi movement.[3]

History

It started off as a madrasa in the town of Moradabad. It was named 'Naeemia' after the name of Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi, a Sunni Islamic scholar. It has produced several leading ulemas of Sunni Sufi movement.[4]

In 1925 (1343H), an All India Sunni Conference’s first summit was organised at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad, whose aims included the unification of "the Sunni majority" under a single political, economic, and socio-religious platform. It was attended by the more than two hundred and fifty religious scholars.[5] Sajjada-nashin of Dargah Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani, Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf taught at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad [6]

Courses

Fatwas

The Darul Ifta Jamia Naeemia Moradabad issued a fatwa against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for allegedly forcefully snatching land of cemetery grounds and other properties from the poor.[7]

Notable alumni

See also

Notes

  1. JAMIA NAIMIA. jamianaimia.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Rutgers University Press(3 September 2008). ISBN 978-0-8135-4562-2
  3. A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia. History - Dissertations({Template:Date).
  4. Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching terror?{{#if:Sanyal|, Sanyal}. Routledge(2008). ISBN 9780415442473
  5. Jackson, William Kesler (2013), page 191
  6. Obituary: Hazrat Syed Mohd. Izhar Ashraf (1934-2012), TwoCircles.net. TwoCircles.net(2012-02-27). Retrieved 2023-10-28.
  7. आजम खान के खिलाफ जारी हुआ फतवा, जानिए क्या है मामला?. Prabhat Khabar - Hindi News(18 May 2017).

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