Government Madrasah-e-Alia (, ) is a government

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located in Bakshibazar,

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, Bangladesh. Since its founding, the madrasah has been playing a significant role in imparting and spreading Islamic education.

History

Alia Madrasah was established in 1780 by British government and formed Madrasah Education Board of Bengal. Madrasah Education was then started formally. Consequently, Madrasah Education was reformed. To materialize this declaration of share-E-Bangla a committee named Moula Box was formed. This committee, along with the advice of establishing a University for Madrasah students, advises in the following way for the entire development of Madrasah Education. In 1947 after the

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, many commissions was formed for the development of Madrasah Education. Among them in 1949 "West Bengal Educational System Reconstruction Committee" and in 1963-64, the name of Arabic University were especially mentionable. On 4 April 2005, activists of

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and

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over a stolen phone. Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal stated that they would not Shibir to establish "supremacy" in the madrasa. On 14 April 2011, students of the madrasa clashed with staff of

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over a road accident between a car and a rickshaw. Ten students of the madrasa were injured and 5 detained by

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Notable staff

* Abdur Rahim * Ayub Ali * Amimul Ehsan Barkati *

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Abdur Rahman Kashgari Abū az-Zibriqān ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Dāmullā al-Kāshgharī an-Nadwī (; 15 September 1912 – 3 April 1971), or simply Abdur Rahman Kashgari (, ), was one of the leading scholars of the Arabic language and literature in th ...

* Deen Muhammad Khan *

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Notable alumni

* Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir, former professor at

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, translator of the Quran *

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, founder of the

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, former leader of

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, recipient of the

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* Abdul Qayum, British scholar * Habibur Rahman, politician * AKM Yusuf, Hadith scholar and politician * Kamaluddin Zafree, founder of Bangladesh Islami University * Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria, professor at

History

Notable staff

Notable alumni

See also

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