Darul uloom

For other uses, see Darul uloom (disambiguation).

Darul uloom (Arabic: دار العلوم, romanized: dār al-ʿulūm), also spelled dar-ul-ulum, is an Arabic term that literally means "house of knowledge". The term generally means an Islamic seminary or educational institution – similar to or often the same as a madrassa or Islamic school – although a darul uloom often indicates a more advanced level of study. In a darul uloom, Islamic subjects are studied by students, who are known as talaba or ṭālib.

Description

The conventional darul ulooms of today have their roots in the Indian subcontinent, where the first darul ulooms were founded by the Indian Islamic scholars (ulema) of the past. Darul ulooms followed in the past, and today continue to follow, the age-old Islamic curriculum known as the Dars-e-Nizami syllabus, which has its origins in the Farangi Mahal Islamic seminary of the Mughal Empire, developed by prominent Islamic thinker Nizamuddin Sihalivi thus the name Dars-e-Nizami, later on was merged with the dawra-e-hadith curriculum of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703 – 1762). The Dars-e-Nizami syllabus comprises studies in tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), hifz (Qur'anic memorisation), sarf and nahw (Arabic syntax and grammar), Persian, Urdu, tarikh (Islamic history), fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and sharia (Islamic law).

List of major darul ulooms

• Darul Uloom Deoband, Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India (where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started in 1868)
• Dar-ul-Uloom, Karachi, Islamic education university (Madrasa) in Karachi, Pakistan (established in 1951)
• Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Karachi, Pakistan'
• Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Al-Faridia, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Dar Al Uloom University, university in Saudi Arabia
• Faculty of Dar Al Uloom Cairo University
• Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, Hathazari, Bangladesh
• Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom, Karachi, Pakistan
• Jamia Madania Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama (established 1894), Lucknow, India
• Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Zahedan, Iran
• Darul Uloom Bagbari, Assam, India
• Darul Uloom Zakariyya, Lenasia, South Africa
• Darul Uloom CTIEC, Cape Town, South Africa
• Darul Uloom Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
• Darul Uloom Birmingham, Birmingham, England
• Darul Uloom Bury, Greater Manchester, England
• Darul Uloom London, London, England
• Darul Uloom Bolton, Bolton, England
• Darul Uloom Al-Madania, Buffalo, New York
• Darul Quran WasSunnah,(est.2006 by Mufti Ruhul Amin Qasimi) New York City, New York
• Masjid Darussalam, Lombard, United States
• Darul Uloom New Jersey, Paterson, New Jersey, United States
• Darul Uloom New York, Queens, New York, United States

See also

• List of Islamic seminaries