Jamia Naeemia Moradabad
JNM
TypeIslamic university
Established1925
FounderNaeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi
AffiliationBarelvi movement
PrincipalMufti Ayub Khan Naeemi Bhagalpuri
Students1000+ (Approximately)
Location
Moradabad
,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
Websitejamianaimia.com

Jamia Naeemia Moradabad (Urdu: جامعہ نعیمیہ مراد آباد, Hindi: जामिया नईमिया मुरादाबाद) is an Islamic seminary in India. It is located in Moradabad in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.[1][2] The seminary is a major center of the Barelvi movement in India and has been the target of violence by the rival Deobandi movement.[3]

History

It started off as a madrasa in the town of Moradabad. It was named 'Naeemia' after the name of Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi, a Sunni Islamic scholar. It has produced several leading ulemas of Sunni Sufi movement.[4]

In 1925 (1343H), an All India Sunni Conference’s first summit was organised at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad, whose aims included the unification of "the Sunni majority" under a single political, economic, and socio-religious platform. It was attended by the more than two hundred and fifty religious scholars.[5] Sajjada-nashin of Dargah Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani, Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf taught at Jamia Naeemia Moradabad [6]

Courses

  • Maulvi
  • Alim
  • Fazil

Fatwas

The Darul Ifta Jamia Naeemia Moradabad issued a fatwa against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for allegedly forcefully snatching land of cemetery grounds and other properties from the poor.[7]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "JAMIA NAIMIA". jamianaimia.com. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ↑ Ali Riaz (3 September 2008). Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-4562-2.
  3. ↑ Jackson, William (1 August 2013). "A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia". History - Dissertations.
  4. ↑ Sanyal, Usha (2008). "Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: the Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur". In Jamal, Malik (ed.). Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching terror?. Routledge. pp. 23–44. ISBN 9780415442473.
  5. ↑ Jackson, William Kesler (2013), page 191
  6. ↑ TwoCircles.net (27 February 2012). "Obituary: Hazrat Syed Mohd. Izhar Ashraf (1934-2012)". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "आजम खान के खिलाफ जारी हुआ फतवा, जानिए क्या है मामला?". Prabhat Khabar - Hindi News.

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