Al Jamiatul Ashrafia

Not to be confused with Jamia Ashrafia.

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The Barelvi movement
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Founders & Central figures

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
Hamid Raza Khan
Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri

Notable Scholars

Maulana Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni
Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari
Muhammad Muslehuddin Siddiqui
Qamaruzzaman Azmi
Ameen Mian Qaudri
Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri
Akhtar Raza Khan

Institutions

Jamia Naeemia Lahore
Jamia Al-Karam, Jamia Amjadia Rizvia
Manchester Central Mosque
Jamiatur Raza, Manzar-e-Islam
Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Al-Jame-atul-Islamia

Literature & Notable Works

Kanzul Iman, Fatawa-e-Razvia
Bahar-e-Shariat, Husamul Haramain

Organizations

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, Jamaat Ahle Sunnat
Sunni Tehreek, Sunni Ittehad Council
Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat
All India Ulema and Mashaikh Board
Muslim Students Organisation of India

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia
Type Islamic university
President Hazrat Maulana Abdul Hafiz Muradabadi
Vice-president Haji Mohammad Nizamuddin Mubarakpuri
Principal Alam Mohammad Ahmad Misbhai
Location Mubarakpur, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Website http://www.aljamiatulashrafia.org/

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia (Urdu: الجامعۃ اُلاشرفیہ, Hindi: अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is the largest Islamic seminary of Sunni Muslims of India belonging to Barelvi school. It is located in Mubarakpur, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

History

It started off as a madrasa called Misbah al-Ulum in 1898 in the town of Mubarakpur of what was then British India.[1] It was named 'Ashrafia' after the most prominent Saint of not only the subcontinent but the world Ala Hadrat Shah Ali Hussain 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.[2]

Realizing that the site was becoming too small, Hafiz Abd al-Aziz organized an educational conference in May 1972 to discuss moving Ashrafiyya to a larger campus. Scholars of the Barelwi Movement like Mustafa Raza Khan son of Ahmad Raza Khan 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 Azamgarh.[3] Key figures such as Allama Ziyaul Mustafa, Allama Arshadul Qaudri, Qamaruzzaman Azmi worked hard with Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi to raise the required funds to build the institution.[4]

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. Though the body incorporated all the renowned muftis of the sect, it was not long before a number of such bodies started mushrooming in the length and breadth of Jahan-e-Riza (the world of the followers of Imam Ahmed Riza Khan).[5]

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