Islamic Research Center Bangladesh, popularly known as ''Bashundhara Islamic Research Center'', is a higher Islamic research institution situated at Bashundhara,

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...

Faqihul Millat Mufti Abdur Rahman Abdur Rahman (; 1920–2015), also known as Faqihul Millat, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school. He was born in Imam Nagar, Fatikchhari, Chittagong, in 1920. He was the founder director of the Islamic Research Center Banglade ...

was the principal founder of the institution.

Departments

At present, Islamic Research Center Bangladesh offers

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education in the following fields of

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. * Department of

Fatwa A fatwa (; ; ; ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist ('' faqih'') in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a ''mufti'', ...

(Darul

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) * Department of Higher

Islamic Law Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, or Shariah () is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Qur'an and hadith. In Islamic terminology ''sharīʿah'' refers to immutable, intan ...

and

Fiqh ''Fiqh'' (; ) is the term for Islamic jurisprudence.Fiqh
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* Department of Dawra-e-Hadeeth

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