Darul Uloom Haqqania or Jamia Dar al-Ulum Haqqania ( ur, ) is an Islamic
Seminary
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(
darul uloom
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or
madrasa
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) in the town of
Akora Khattak
Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...
,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
province, northwestern
Pakistan
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. The seminary propagates the
Hanafi
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Deobandi
Deobandi is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam, adhering to the Hanafi school of law,
formed in the late 19th century around the Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives,
by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, R ...
school of
Sunni Islam
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Abdul Haq ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحقّ) is an Arabic male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥaqq'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the ...
along the lines of the
Darul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...
seminary in India, where he had taught. It has been dubbed the University of Jihad due to its methods and content of instruction, along with the future occupations of its alumni. A number of leading members of the
Taliban
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, including past chief
Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1960s21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. Succeeding the founding leader, Mullah Omar, he was the supreme leader from July 2015 to May ...
Abdul Haq ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحقّ) is an Arabic male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥaqq'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the ...
(1912 – 1988) founded the institution on 23 September 1947. He was succeeded as chancellor by his son
Sami-ul-Haq
Sami ul Haq ( ur, , ''Samī'u’l-Ḥaq''; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator. He was known as the ''Father of Taliban'' for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation ...
(1937 – 2018) of the
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام, abbreviated as JUI) was founded by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as an offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) on 26 October 1945.
History
The original Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was formed in Bri ...
Pashto
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Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
: عبدالحق; 11 January 1912 – 7 September 1988) of
Akora Khattak
Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...
, Pakistan, sometimes referred to as Abdul Haq Akorwi was a
Pashtun
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Islamic scholar
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and the founder, chancellor, and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania. He has also served as vice-president of
Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan
Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan (Urdu: ) is the largest federation of Islamic seminaries in Pakistan, founded in 1959. More than 10,000 seminaries and 23,000 madaris across Pakistan are affiliated with the federation. It controls all the ...
. He was involved in politics as a member of the political party
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام, abbreviated as JUI) was founded by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as an offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) on 26 October 1945.
History
The original Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was formed in Bri ...
. He served three times in the
National Assembly of Pakistan
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and was an active proponent of the Khatme Nabuwwat movement.
Abdul Haq completed his religious education at
Darul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary (darul uloom) in India at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. It is located in Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh. The seminary was established by Muhammad Qasim ...
in
Deoband
Deoband is a town and a municipality in Saharanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, about 150 km from Delhi. Darul Uloom Deoband, an Islamic seminary and one of the largest Islamic Institution of India is located there.
Etymo ...
, India. He taught at Deoband for four years until difficulties arose due to the
independence of Pakistan
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. In 1947, he founded Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, one of the first Islamic seminaries to be established in Pakistan. He taught hadith at the madrasah for the rest of his life and was well-known by the title "Shaykh al-Hadith".
Sami-ul-Haq
Sami ul Haq ( ur, , ''Samī'u’l-Ḥaq''; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator. He was known as the ''Father of Taliban'' for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation ...
(1937 – 2018) or Maulana Sami-ul-Haq Haqqani ( ur, , ''Samī'u’l-Ḥaq''; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistanireligious scholar and
senator
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.
He was known as the ''Father of Taliban'' in Pakistan for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation of most Taliban leaders and commanders. With his party
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (S) ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام (س)) commonly known as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) is a political party in Pakistan. It was established in 1980, as a breakway faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) founded ...
, which split from
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (Fazl) also Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) or simply as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Urdu: ; ; JUI-F) is a Deobandi Sunni political party in Pakistan. Established as the ''Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam'' in 1945, it is the result o ...
because Haq supported
Zia-ul-Haq
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, ( Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial ...
and his policies, he was a member of the
Senate of Pakistan
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from 1985 to 1991 and again from 1991 to 1997.Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Senate of Pakistan /ref>
After his assassination in 2018 his son Maulana
Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani
Maulana Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani is a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who served as a member of the 12th National Assembly of Pakistan from 16 November 2002 until 10 October 2007, when he resigned in protest. He became chief of the Jamiat ...
became the chancellor of the seminary and the ameer or head of the political party.
Sami-ul-Haq
Sami ul Haq ( ur, , ''Samī'u’l-Ḥaq''; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator. He was known as the ''Father of Taliban'' for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation ...
was regarded as the "Father of the
Taliban
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" and had close ties to
Taliban
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leader
Mullah
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The title has also been used in some Miz ...
Mohammed Omar. Sami ul Haq was the chancellor of Darul Uloom Haqqania, a
Deobandi
Deobandi is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam, adhering to the Hanafi school of law,
formed in the late 19th century around the Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives,
by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, R ...
Islamic seminary which is the alma mater of many prominent Taliban members. Haq served as chairman of the
Difa-e-Pakistan Council
The Difa-e-Pakistan Council ( ur, دفاعِ پاکستان کونسل, lit. ''Defence of Pakistan Council'', abbreviated as DPC) is an umbrella coalition of more than 40 Pakistani Political and Religious parties that advocate conservative policies ...
and was the leader of his own faction of the
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام, abbreviated as JUI) was founded by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as an offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH) on 26 October 1945.
History
The original Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind was formed in Bri ...
political party, known as
JUI-S
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (S) ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام (س)) commonly known as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) is a political party in Pakistan. It was established in 1980, as a breakway faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) founded ...
. Sami ul-Haq was also a founding member of a six-party religious alliance
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
The Muttahida Majlis–e–Amal (MMA; Urdu: , "United Council of Action") is a political alliance consisting of conservative, Islamist, religious, and far-right parties of Pakistan. Naeem Siddiqui (the founder of Tehreek e Islami) proposed suc ...
Senate of Pakistan
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. He formed Muttahida Deeni Mahaz (United Religious Front), an alliance of relatively small religio-political parties, to participate in the 2013 general election.
Haq stated that the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Richard G. Olson,
visited him in July 2013 to discuss the situation of the region. Haq sympathized with the Taliban, stating: "Give them just one year and they will make the whole of Afghanistan happy... The whole of Afghanistan will be with them ... Once the Americans leave, all of this will happen within a year... As long as they are there, Afghans will have to fight for their freedom," Haq said. "It's a war for freedom. It will not stop until outsiders leave."
In October 2018, an Afghan delegation comprising
Ashraf Ghani
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.
Born in L ...
government representatives and diplomats stationed in Pakistan, met Samiul Haq asking him to play a role in restoring peace in
Afghanistan
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by bringing the Afghan Taliban back to the dialogue table.
Assassination of Maulana Sami-ul-Haq
On 2 November 2018, Sami-ul-Haq was
assassinated
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Bahria Town
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It established its first gated community exclusively developed for the el ...
,
Rawalpindi
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. He was stabbed multiple times. He was taken to the nearby Safari Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The cause of his death was excessive blood loss due to the multiple stabbing across his body, including his face. According to his guard, he had intended to join the protests against the acquittal of Asia Bibi in Islamabad, but he could not join it due to road blockage.
Following the assassination, the
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government
The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( ur, ; ps, د خیبر پښتونخوا حکومت), is the provincial government of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its powers and structure are set out in the provisions of the 1973 Consti ...
declared a day of mourning. Prime Minister
Imran Khan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi ( ur}; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former Cricket captain who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 2018 to until April 2022, when he was ousted through a no-confidenc ...
condemned the murder saying "the country has suffered a great loss".
On 3 November 2018, he was buried in the premises of Darul Uloom Haqqania in his hometown of
Akora Khattak
Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...
in the afternoon. The funeral prayer was offered at the Khushal Khan Degree College and led by his son
Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani
Maulana Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani is a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who served as a member of the 12th National Assembly of Pakistan from 16 November 2002 until 10 October 2007, when he resigned in protest. He became chief of the Jamiat ...
. It was attended by a large number of political leaders and his followers. As part of the investigation into his murder, the police questioned his domestic staff.
Books of Maulana Sami-ul Haq
The editor-in-chief of the monthly journal ''Al-Haq'' until his death, he has been described as "a prolific Islamist writer" who "authored more than 20 books", some of his works including :
*Islām aur ʻaṣr-i ḥāz̤ir, 1976. On Islam and the modern world, collected articles.
*Qādiyān sey Isrāʼīl tak, 1978. Critical assessment of the
Ahmadiyya movement
Ahmadiyya (, ), officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ, ar, الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmīyah al-Aḥmadīyah; ur, , translit=Jamā'at Aḥmadiyyah Musl ...
.
*Kārvān-i āk̲h̲irat, 1990. Collection of condolence letters on the death of various South Asian religious scholars.
*Ṣalibī dahshatgardī aur ʻālam-i Islām, 2004. Collection of interviews discussing Taliban movement, United States of America and West interests in Afghanistan.
*Qādiyānī fitnah aur Millat-i Islāmiyah kā mauʼqqif, 2011. Criticism of the Ahmadiyya movement, co-authored with Maulana
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 5 October 1943) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and former judge who is the current president of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia and the vice president and Hadith professor of the Darul Uloom Karachi. An intellectual ...
.
*K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i mashāhīr, 2015. Collected sermons on religious life in Islam, Islam and conduct of life and Islam and politics, in 10 volumes.
*Afghan Taliban: War of Ideology : Struggle for Peace, 2015. His last notable book, on the peace process in Afghanistan.
Akora Khattak
Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
Pakistan
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on Sunday named Maulana Anwar-ul-Haq Haqqani as new head of Darul Uloom Haqqania Akora Khattak after the assassination of his elder brother Maulana
Sami-ul-Haq
Sami ul Haq ( ur, , ''Samī'u’l-Ḥaq''; 18 December 1937 – 2 November 2018) was a Pakistani religious scholar and senator. He was known as the ''Father of Taliban'' for the role his seminary Darul Uloom Haqqania played in the graduation ...
in
Rawalpindi
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.The appointment was made after religious scholars unanimously agreed to appoint Maulana Anwaar, brother of assassinated Maulana Samiul Haq, as mohtamim (head) of the seminary during a dastarbandi.A large number of ulema and religious scholars including Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi and Babar Awan were present on this occasion.The participants offered Fatiha after the dastarbandi ceremony and prayed for the departed soul. They also shed light on various aspects of Maulana Samiul Haq's life and paid tribute to his services he rendered for
Pakistan
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and
Religion
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.
Functioning and selection process
With a boarding school and a high school with thousands of students, as well as 12 affiliated smaller madrassas, offering an eight-year
Master of Arts
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in
Islamic studies
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followed by a PhD after two additional years, journalist
Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Pakistan) is a journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Life and career
Ahmed Rashid was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He attended Ma ...
, who calls it the most popular madrassa in northern Pakistan, also notes its strict selection process : in February 1999, out of 15,000 applicants only 400 new places were offered, while there are reserved places for 400 Afghan students as well.
Notable people
The seminary is known for producing graduates who went on to become Islamist insurgents in
Afghanistan
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, firstly
mujahideen
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who fought against the
Soviet Union
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in the
Soviet–Afghan War
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, and later members of the
Taliban
The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...
, including senior leaders.
Notable graduates include the following:
*
Mohammad Yunus Khalis
Mawlawi Mohammad Yunus Khalis (alternate spellings Yunis and Younas) ( ps, محمد يونس خالص; c. 1919 – 19 July 2006) was a mujahideen commander in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. His party was called Hezb-i-Islami ("Isla ...
( 1919–2006), important mujahideen commander
*
Jalaluddin Haqqani
Jalaluddin Haqqani ( ps, جلال الدين حقاني, Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting in guerilla warfare against US-led ...
(1939–2018), founding leader of the
Haqqani network
The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanist ...
*
Akhtar Mansoor
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( 1968–2016), former leader of the Taliban
*
Sirajuddin Haqqani
Sirajuddin Haqqani ( ps, سراج الدين حقاني, Sirāj al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī, ; aliases ''Khalifa'', and, ''Siraj Haqqani''. born December 1979) is an Afghan Islamist militant who is the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acti ...
, minister of interior of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
*
Mullah Omar
Mullah Muhammad Omar (; –April 2013) was an Afghan Islamic revolutionary who founded the Taliban and served as the supreme leader of Afghanistan from Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001), 1996 to 2001.
Born into a religious family of ...
, founding leader of the Taliban, did not study there, but was granted an
honorary doctorate
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''.
See also
*
Madrassas in Pakistan
Madrassas of Pakistan are Islamic seminaries in Pakistan, known in Urdu as ''Madaris-e-Deeniya'' (literally: religious schools).
Most madrassas teach mostly Islamic subjects such as ''tafseer'' (interpretation of the Quran), ''hadith'' (thousands ...
*
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan (S) ( ur, جمیعت علماءِ اسلام (س)) commonly known as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S) is a political party in Pakistan. It was established in 1980, as a breakway faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) founded ...
*
Soviet–Afghan War
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Ziauddin Sardar
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, ''
New Statesman
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Center for Strategic and International Studies
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