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Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh is an institution for higher Islamic studies in Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

, Bangladesh. It has seven education sections from kindergarten to post-graduate levels.

History

This institute was founded by a group of Islamic scholars led by Allama Shaykh Jofar Ahmad Usmani, Shaykh Mozahide Azam Shamsul Haq Faridpuri, Shaykah Grand Mufti

Mufti

A mufti is a Sunni Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law . In religious administrative terms, a mufti is roughly equivalent to a deacon to a Sunni population...

Din Muhammad Khan and Maulana

Maulana

Mawlānā is an Arabic word literally meaning "our lord" or "our master" ....

Muhammadullah Hafezzi Huzur

Hafezzi Huzur

Moulana Mohammadullah, popularly known as Hafezzi Huzur, is a Bangladeshi politician and founder of the Islamic Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan party. He was a candidate for president of Bangladesh in 1981 and 1986...

. They planned for the establishment of this Jamiah around the historic mosque named Lalbagh Shahi Masjid in Shawwal 1370 H (1950 CE). Shaykh Muhammadullah Hafezzi Huzur

Hafezzi Huzur

was the first person who started the class of memorizing the Quran (Hifzul Quran) amid a lot of difficulties and problems. However, due to the effort of those personalities, the Jamiah now has become well known at home and abroad. Jamiah Lalbagh looks after around 70 madrasah

Madrasah

Madrasah is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, whether secular or religious...

s of this area so that they can improve their curricular activities.

Divisions

The Jamiah has these education sections:

Kindergarten Section: Here the students are taught basic knowledge of language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

s along with elementary Islamic knowledge.
Hifzul-Qur'an (Memorization of the Qur'an): Students are taught how to memorize the Qur'an
Qur'an
The Quran , also transliterated Qur'an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran, Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God . It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language...

with Tajweed (pronunciation).
Primary Section: This course is four years long.
Secondary Section: This course is two years long.
Higher Secondary Section: This is a two-year course.
Graduate Section: The graduation
Graduation
Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become Graduates. Before the graduation, candidates are referred to as Graduands. The date of graduation is often called degree day. The graduation itself is also...

course is two years long.
Post Graduate Section: Two-year Fiqh
Fiqh
Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence. Fiqh is an expansion of the code of conduct expounded in the Quran, often supplemented by tradition and implemented by the rulings and interpretations of Islamic jurists....

course under the Department of Islamic Jurisprudence, two-year Hadith course under the Department of Hadith, two-year Tafsir
Tafsir
Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

course under of Department of Quranic Research, two-year Adab (Arabic language) course under the Department of Language.

The Jamiah also teaches the students arithmetic, geography, Urdu, and Persian besides Ilm-e-Wahi. Furthermore, the madrasah has the Section of Scientific Research, Section of Printing and Publishing, and Section of the Library.

Library and publications

The University Library has a large stock of the valuable books of Islamic history, Islamic Philosophy
Islamic philosophy
Islamic philosophy is a branch of Islamic studies. It is the continuous search for Hekma in the light of Islamic view of life, universe, ethics, society, and so on...

, text books of different levels, Journal
Journal
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s, Magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

s etc. in Arabic, Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

, Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

, Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

and English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

s. The approximate number of books in this library is about 22,000.
Fatwa-E-Jamia: The Madrasah has responsibilities for issues of society. It gives accurate advice and legal opinions for those issues the aggregate of which are published as a book called Fatwa-e-Jamiah.
The Jamiah publishes monthly wallpapers on Arabic and national language.

Extracurricular activities

The Jamiah organizes weekly debates on different languages, symposia on Islamic activities on contemporary topics, internal competitions during study periods and a big contest at the end of each academic year, translation of Islamic thoughts and literary articles and computer training.

Facilities

All the students are residents of the madrasah. The Jamiah gives free education to all students. It also lends them textbooks. Those students who attain an excellent result in the examination are rewarded. Moreover, the Jamiah provides 1,500 orphans and poor and distressed students with food and accommodation.

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