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Other name | Ashrafia |
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| Type | Islamic university |
| Founder | Shah Abdul Azeez Muradabadi |
| President | Abdul Hafeez Moradabadi |
| Vice-president | Vacant |
| Principal | Mufti Badr-e-Alam Misbahi |
| Director | Allama Abdul Aziz Muradabadi (Hafiz-e-Millat) |
Administrative staff | 150+ |
| Students | c. 5500+ |
| Location | ,, India |
| Website | www |
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Al Jamiatul Ashrafia (Urdu:الجامعۃ اُلاشرفیہ,Hindi:अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is aSunniMadrasa in India. It is located inMubarakpur in a Northern State of India,Uttar Pradesh.
It started off as a madrasa calledMisbah al-Ulum in 1898 in the town ofMubarakpur of what was thenBritish India.[1] It was named 'Ashrafia' afterSyed Shah Ali Hussain Ashraf Kichauchhvi. 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 for moving Ashrafia to a larger campus. Scholars of the Barelvi movement such asMustafa Raza Khan son ofAhmad Raza Khan along with Maulana Syed Ale Mustafa Quadri Barkati[3] andArshadul Qadri laid the foundation stone with the mission of making it a university for Sunni Hanafi Islam in 1972 at a site outside the city ofAzamgarh.[4] Key figures such as AllamaZiaul Mustafa Razvi Qadri,Allama Arshadul Qaudri, Allama Mumtaz Ahmad Ashraful Qadri, Mufti Abdul Mannan, Maulana Shafi, Qari Yehya andQamaruzzaman Azmi worked withAbd al-Aziz Muradabadi to raise the required funds to build the institution.[5]
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’.[3] Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian Civil Service Exam in 2019.[6][7]
The degrees of graduation and post graduation of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia are recognized by various universities includingMaulana Azad National Urdu University in Hyderabad,[8]Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),[9]Jamia Millia Islamia,[10] andAligarh Muslim University.[11]
In 1992, under the auspices of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Mobarakpur, the Jurisprudential Board was set up as a body of Muftis.[citation needed]
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