Al Jamiatul Ashrafia

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| president = Abdul Hafeez Moradabadi
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| city = [[Mubarakpur]], [[Azamgarh]]
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'''Al Jamiatul Ashrafia''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|الجامعۃ اُلاشرفیہ}}}}, {{lang-hi|अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया}}) is an [[Islamic seminary]] of [[Ahle-Sunnat]] Muslims in India. It is located in [[Mubarakpur]] in the northern 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]].<ref>[[#Sanyal08|Sanyal 2008]]: 32</ref> It was named 'Ashrafia' after Syed Shah Ali Hussain Ashraf 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.<ref>[[#Sanyal08|Sanyal 2008]]: 33</ref>

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]] along with Sufi Syedul Ulema Maulana Syed Ale Mustafa Quadri Barkati <ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljamiatulashrafia.in/aljamiatul-ashrafia.php?lang=EN|title=Al Jamiatul Ashrafia: An Introduction|website=www.aljamiatulashrafia.in}}</ref> 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]].<ref>[[#Sanyal08|Sanyal 2008]]: 34</ref> Key figures such as Allama Ziyaul Mustafa, [[Allama Arshadul Qaudri]], Allama Mumtaz Ahmad Ashraful Qadri, Mufti Abdul Mannan, Maulana Shafi, Qari Yehya and [[Qamaruzzaman Azmi]] worked with Abd al-Aziz Muradabadi to raise the required funds to build the institution.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allamaazmi.com/articles-3.asp |title=Great Religious Leader of the 21st Century |publisher=Allama Azmi |access-date=2012-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322184442/http://www.allamaazmi.com/articles-3.asp |archive-date=2012-03-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==About the institution==
The institution has 3000 plus students in religious education centers with 256 faculty members and employees.
Besides them there are more than 6000 boys and girls who pursue their studies in the boy’s primary, high and intermediate school / college and the girl’s primary and high school respectively. Al-Jamiatul Ashrafia has vocational training & technical institutes, hospitals and with branches all over India. The alumni are called ‘Misbahi’ according to its old name ‘Misbahul Uloom’.<ref name="auto"/> Mohammad Shahid Raza Khan, an alumnus of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia qualified Indian civil service Exam in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/india/this-madrasa-graduate-is-in-line-to-be-ias-ips-officer-says-it-helped-him-crack-upsc-exam/225356/|title=This madrasa graduate is in line to be IAS, IPS officer, says it helped him crack UPSC exam|first=Kritika|last=Sharma|date=April 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://muslimmirror.com/eng/madrassa-educated-shahid-raza-khan-cracks-upsc-exam/|title=Madrasa educated Shahid Raza Khan cracks UPSC exam|date=April 6, 2019}}</ref>

==Affiliation==
The degrees of graduation and post graduation of Al Jamiatul Ashrafia are recognized by various universities including Maulana Azad Urdu University Hyderabad, Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University.<ref>https://www.amu.ac.in/newdata/depttmom/2424.pdf</ref><ref>http://jnu.ac.in/admission/e-prospectus-2019-20.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.jmi.ac.in/upload/advertisement/guideline_private_2014.pdf</ref><ref>https://manuucoe.in/RegularAdmission/assets/pdf/List%20of%20Madarsa%20Programs%20approved%20by%20the%20University%20for%20Admissions%202019.pdf</ref>

==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 developing in the length and breadth of Jahan-e-Riza (the world of the followers of Imam Ahmed Riza Khan).<ref>[http://readerlist.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2006/06/ [Reader-List] relay] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502164926/http://readerlist.freeflux.net/blog/archive/2006/06/ |date=May 2, 2008 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Jamia Nizamia]]
*[[Jamiatur Raza]]
*[[Islam in India]]
*[[Al-Jame-atul-Islamia]]
*[[Manzar-e-Islam]]

==References==
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* {{cite book |last=Sanyal |first=Usha |author-link=Usha Sanyal |editor-first=Malik |editor-last=Jamal |title=Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching terror? |year=2008 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=23–44 |chapter=Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: the Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur |isbn=9780415442473 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0lo_Whlz-sYC&pg=PA23 |ref=Sanyal08}}

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[[Category:1898 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Madrasas in India]]
[[Category:Barelvi Islamic universities and colleges]]

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