Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama

Nadwat al - ʿ ulama ʾ (Arabic ندوة العلماء ) is the name of an Indian- Islamic education and reform society, which was established in 1892 in Kanpur and since 1898 with the Dār al - ʿ ulūm of Lucknow has its own Islamic University. The company moved its headquarters in 1898 even after Lucknow.

The two initial objectives of the society were (1) the development of a new educational system that contained both elements of the traditional madrasa education as well as the western education, and (2) the balance between the various Indo- Islamic currents ( Aligarh modernists, Deobandis, Ahl -i Hadith and representative of the Shia ), who faced at that time hostile to each other in India. From 1894 annual conferences were held to popularize the ideas of society. However, it is not the company succeeded to convince the traditionalist Muslims from their mission. Both Deobandis and Barelwis criticized the society as to modernist. Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi wrote in 1896 a fatwa against the Nadwa, by leading scholars of Mecca and Medina received support in 1900.

In 1904, the Company issued its own magazine in Urdu entitled to - Nadwa, which was, however, set 1945. From the 1930s, the Society of Salafiya approached and turned away from the original project the balance between Western and Islamic education. In the 1940s she developed close relations with the Tablighi Jamaat and supported the 1946 adopted by Muhammad Yūsuf Kāndhalwī project for the transnationalization of the movement.

The Dār al - ʿ al - ʿ Nadwat ulūm the ulama ʾ persists to this day and in addition to primary and secondary education is a four- year degree in Arabic and Islamic studies in which is completed with the ʿ ālimīya degree. After two more years of study of the Fadila title can be purchased. The school has a large library of 650 rare books and 3,000 manuscripts and his own publishing house, which today publishes three magazines, al -Ba ʿ th al -Islami and ar -Ra ʾ id in Arabic and Ta ʿ Mir- i Hayat in Urdu.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Dār al - ʿ got ulūm the Nadwa as some other Islamic schools in India under the suspicion of being a hotbed of Islamic terrorism, and has been repeatedly the target of police raids.