Islamic Education

Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (c. 594–653 CE) was among the earliest converts to Islam, a close companion of the Prophet, and the scholar who carried the Quranic and legal tradition to Kufa. His teaching circle became the intellectual ancestor of the Hanafi school of law.

Aligarh Muslim University grew out of the school founded by Syed Ahmad Khan in 1875, which became the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1877 and a university by Act of the Indian legislature in 1920. It was the central institution of the Aligarh Movement.

Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic seminary founded in northern India in 1866 or 1867 and the origin of the Deobandi school of thought. Its innovation was institutional: it carried the traditional religious sciences in the form of a modern school funded by public subscription.

Fatima al-Fihri (فاطمة الفهرية), also known as Umm al-Banin, was a visionary Muslim woman who founded Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco in 859 CE, establishing what would become the world's oldest continuously operating university and one of the leading centers of Islamic learning for over a millennium.

Islamic learning from the nineteenth century to the present. The classical pattern of mosque school, madrasa and scholarly circle met colonial and state education systems, producing reform, new Islamic universities, and lasting debate over how the two should meet.

Islamic education systems revolutionized learning through institutions like Al-Azhar and the House of Wisdom, establishing early universities with comprehensive curricula integrating religious and secular knowledge while developing pedagogical methods that influenced global education.

Jamia Millia Islamia was founded at Aligarh on 29 October 1920 by nationalist Muslim leaders and students who left the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College during the Non-Cooperation movement. It moved to Delhi in 1925, to Okhla in 1935, and became a central university by Act of Parliament in 1988.

Nizam al-Mulk (1018-1092 CE) was one of the greatest statesmen in Islamic history, serving as vizier to the Seljuk sultans. He established the Nizamiyya schools that revolutionized Islamic education and wrote the influential Siyasatnama on political philosophy.

A Bangladeshi scholar of hadith who led the seminary at Hathazari in Chittagong for more than three decades and chaired the country's Qawmi madrasa education board. Trained at Hathazari and Darul Uloom Deoband, he wrote a commentary on Sahih al-Bukhari.

The University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, founded as a mosque in 857-859 CE, is recognised by UNESCO as the oldest existing, continually operating institution of higher learning in the world, and a historic centre of Maliki legal scholarship in the western Islamic world.