Dars-i Nizami

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Dars-i Nizami (Urdu: درسِ نظامی), also "Dars-e Nizami", the curriculum Nizam ud Dins , is a study curriculum that is used in traditional Islamic institutions , especially on the Indian subcontinent. It has its origins in India in the early 18th century and was standardized by Mullah Nizam ud Din Sehalvi (d. 1748) at the Farangi Mahall (and named after him), a famous seminary of a family of Islamic scholars ( ulema ) in Lucknow ( Lucknow ) , India. The dars-i nizami emphasizes the rational sciences (maʿqūlāt), i.e. above all logic and philosophy. The traditional sciences (manqūlāt) such as exegesis, hadith and law were subordinate. Neoplatonism and Sufi teachings were also not officially taught. It should be noted, however, that most of the scholars at the Farangi Mahall were Sufis, but were not allowed to practice their faith because the Sunni elite rejected any Sufi orders in the 17th and 18th centuries. Logic and philosophy were seen as instruments for gaining knowledge through which one could arrive at a rational experience of God. The dars-i nizami was a quick training in which one read only a few texts and then only in part, in order to stimulate the students' thinking skills and imagination. The graduates mostly occupied key positions in the administration of the Nawabs .

Criticism of dars-i nizami

Your center had the criticism in Delhi. Above all, traders and entrepreneurs criticized the depraved morals and the suppression of independent thinking and autonomous discourse and called for more traditional studies and a stronger emphasis on Sufism. They called for unity between the sacred and the profane and postulated a new conversion and return to faith. The criticism condensed in the person of Shāh Walīyullāh ad-Dihlawī , who called for a new educational canon that contained less logic and philosophy and more hadiths.

literature

  • Muhammad Qasim Zaman: Religious Education and the Rhetoric of Reform: The Madrasa in British India and Pakistan . In: Comparative Studies in Society and History . 41, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 294-323.
  • Sikand, Yoginder: Bastions of the Believers. Madrasas and Islamic Education in India , New Delhi: Penguin 2005
  • Saral Jhingran: Madrasa Education in Modern India: A Study. Manohar Publishers 2010
  • GMD Sufi: Al-Minhaj: Being the Evolution of Curriculum in the Muslim Educational Institutions of India . 1941 ( digitized version )
  • Jamal Malik: Islamic scholarly culture in northern India. Development history and tendencies using the example of Lucknow . Leiden: EJ Brill 1997 ( online excerpt )

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  1. ↑ It differs from that of the Nizamiyyas emanating from Baghdad .
Dars-i Nizami (alternative names of the lemma)
dars-e nizāmī; Dars-i nizami; Dar-e nizami; Dars-i Nizamiyya