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Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia (, ''Jāmiā Ulūm-i Islāmīyā'' / , ''Jāmi‘at-ul-‘Ulūm-ul-Islāmīyah'') is an Islamic University in Banoori Town, Karachi, Pakistan. The university continues the tradition of the Darul Uloom system initiated by
Darul Uloom Deoband Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic university and seminary ( darul uloom) in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India, at which the Sunni Deobandi Islamic movement began. Established in 1866 by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Fazlur Rahman Usmani, Sayy ...
. , there are about twelve thousand students in different departments of the Jamiah and its branches, including a number of foreign students from over sixty countries.


Controversies


Assassinations of preachers

On 2 November 1997, two scholars at Jamiat-ul-Uloom-ul-Islamia, Habibullah Mukhtar ( Rector) and Abdus Sami, were martyred when two motorcyclists hurled an explosive device at their van. Another Rector, Yousuf Ludhianvi, was shot dead by gunmen in Karachi on 18 May 2000. Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, the then head of the madrassa, was martyred on 30 May 2004 when armed men ambushed his vehicle in front of the Binori Mosque. On 9 October 2004, another associated scholar, Jameel Ahmad Khan, was killed when his vehicle was fired upon by two gunmen on motorcycles. On 13 May 2012, Aslam Sheikhupuri was killed when gunmen on two motorcycles shot at his car. He had been associated with the school for 25 years.


Notable alumni

* Mahmudul Hasan * Maulana Abdullah Ghazi, first imam of Lal Masjid and founder of
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* Masood Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) *
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, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS) * Qari Saifullah Akhtar, was an alleged member of
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founder & leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) * Azam Tariq, leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) *
Fazlur Rehman Khalil Fazal ur Rehman Khalil ( ) is a founder of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and current leader of Ansar-ul-Umma, which is accused of being a front organization of the banned HuM. He also runs the Jamia Khalid Bin Walid, a madrasa or Islamic seminary loca ...
, leader of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) * Aurangzaib Farooqi, leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at (ASWJ). * Abdul Aziz Ghazi, leader of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and Chancellor of
Jamia Faridia Jamia Uloom Al-Islamia Al-Faridia (), commonly known as Jamia Faridia (), is a Deobandi movement, Deobandi Islamic university situated near the Faisal Mosque in Sectors_of_Islamabad#E-sectors, Sector E-7 of Islamabad, Pakistan. The university ...
* Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of Jundallah * Mullah Omar, founding leader of the
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(Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan), did not study there, but was granted an honorary degree * Abdus Salam Chatgami, was a
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Islamic scholar, educator, writer and researcher. For his research work, he was considered one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the
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. * Anwar Badakhshani, Afghan born Pakistani scholar, writer, educator and Sheikh Al-Hadith at Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia.


See also

* Bayyinat * Darul Uloom Haqqania * Jamia Binoria


References


External links


Official website
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