Al Jamiatul Ashrafia ( ur, , hi, अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is a Barelvi

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school in India. It is located in

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in a northern state of India,

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History

It started off as a

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called ''Misbah al-Ulum'' in 1898 in the town of

of what was then

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. It was named 'Ashrafia' after Syed Shah Ali Hussain Ashraf of Kichaucha. After struggling for many years and moving locations several times, a new building was constructed using funds raised by Hafiz Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi. This was the site for the school now known as Dar al-Ulum Ahl-i Sunnat or Misbah al-Ulum. Realizing that the site was becoming too small, Hafiz Abd al-Aziz organized an educational conference in May 1972 to discuss for moving Ashrafia to a larger campus. Scholars of the Barelvi movement such as

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son of Ahmad Raza Khan along with Sufi Syedul Ulema Maulana Syed Ale Mustafa Quadri Barkati and Allama Arshadul Qaudri laid the foundation stone with the mission of making it a university for Sunni Hanafi Islamic Ideology in 1972 at a site outside the city of

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. Key figures such as Allama Ziyaul Mustafa, Allama Arshadul Qaudri, Allama Mumtaz Ahmad Ashraful Qadri, Mufti Abdul Mannan, Maulana Shafi, Qari Yehya and

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worked with Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi to raise the required funds to build the institution.

About the institution

The Jamia has 5000 plus students in religious education centers with 256 faculty members and employees. Besides them there are more than 6000 boys and girls in various educational institutions of the Jamia. The alumni are called ‘Misbahi’ according to its old name ‘Misbahul Uloom’. Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian Civil Service Exam in 2019.

Affiliation

The degrees of graduation and post graduation of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia are recognized by various universities including Maulana Azad National Urdu University Hyderabad,

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(JNU),

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, and

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Set up of Sunni Board

In 1992, under the auspices of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Mobarakpur, the Jurisprudential Board was set up as a body of Muftis.

References

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History

About the institution

Affiliation

Set up of Sunni Board

See also

References