Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ
Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ ( Arabic ندوة العلماء 'Council of Religious Scholars') is the name of an Indian- Islamic educational and reform society that was founded in Kanpur in 1892 and has had its own Islamic university since 1898 with the Dār al-ʿulūm of Lucknow . In 1898 the company moved its headquarters to Lucknow.
The two original goals of the society were (1) the development of a new educational system that included elements of traditional madrasa training as well as western education, and (2) the balance between the various Indian Islamic currents ( Aligarh modernists, Deobandis , Ahl-i Hadīth and representatives of the Shia ), who were hostile to one another in India at the time. From 1894, annual conferences were held to popularize the ideas of society. However, the society did not succeed in convincing the traditionalist Muslims of their mission. Both Deobandis and Barelwis criticized society as being too modernist. Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi wrote a fatwa in 1896 against the Nadwa, which in 1900 received support from leading scholars from Mecca and Medina .
From 1904 the company published its own Urdu magazine with the title an-Nadwa , which was discontinued in 1945. From the 1930s onwards, society moved closer to the Salafīya and turned away from the original project of balancing Western and Islamic education. In the 1940s she developed close relationships with the Tablighi Jamaat and supported the project for the transnationalization of the movement decided by Muhammad Yūsuf Kāndhalwī in 1946.
The Dār al-'Ulum of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama is still further and offers primary and secondary education a four-year degree in Arab and Islamic Studies at communicating with the 'ālimīya is completed -degree. The fadīla title can be acquired after two more years of study . The school has a large library with 650 rare books and 3,000 manuscripts and its own publishing house, which now publishes three journals, al-Baʿth al-islāmī and ar-Rāʾid in Arabic and Taʿmīr-i Hayāt in Urdu.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , the Nadwa Dār al-ʿulūm, like several other Islamic schools in India, was suspected of being a hotbed of Islamic terrorism and repeatedly targeted by police raids .
Chairwoman of the Nadwa
- Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani , 1915-1923
- Ali Hasan Khan, -1931
- ʿAbd al-ʿAlī al-Hasanī , 1931–1961
- Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi , 1961-1999
literature
- Marc Gaborieau: Un autre islam. Inde, Pakistan, Bangladesh . Paris 2007, pp. 143-147.
- Jan-Peter Hartung: The Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ: Chief Patron of Madrasa Education in India and a Turntable to the Arab World . In: Jan-Peter Hartung, Helmut Reifeld (Ed.): Islamic Education, Diversity, and National Identity. Dīnī Madāris in India Post 9/11. New Delhi-London 2006, pp. 135-158.
- Zafarul Islam Khan: Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. VII, pp. 874-875.
- Jamal Malik: Islamic scholarly culture in northern India. Development history and tendencies using the example of Lucknow . Leiden 1997. pp. 265-505.
- Usha Sanyal: Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870–1920. New Delhi 2010. pp. 217-226.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 26 ° 51 '54.4 " N , 80 ° 55' 57.1" E