Darul uloom
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Darul uloom (Arabic: دار العلوم, romanized: dār al-ʿulūm), also spelled darul 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.
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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 Nizamiyya Islamic schools of the Seljuk Empire, but was developed in the Indian subcontinent under Islamic thinkers and ulema, such as 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[]
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- Dar Al Uloom University, university in Saudi Arabia
- Dar-ul-Uloom, Karachi, Islamic education university (Madrasa) in Karachi, Pakistan (established in 1951)
- Darul Uloom Deoband, Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started in 1868
- Faculty of Dar Al Uloom Cairo University
- Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama (established 1894), Lucknow, India
- Darul Uloom Zakariyya, Lenasia, South Africa
- Darul Uloom Birmingham, Birmingham, England
- Darul Uloom London, London, England
- Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Karachi, Pakistan
- Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Darul Uloom Al-Madania, Buffalo, New York
- Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom, Karachi, Pakistan
- Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Zahedan, Iran
- Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, Hathazari, Bangladesh
- Darul Uloom Bolton, Bolton, England
- Masjid Darussalam, Lombard, United States
- Jamia Madania Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Darul Uloom New Jersey, Paterson, New Jersey
- Darul Uloom Central Jersey (CJIIS), New Jersey
- Darul Uloom New York, Queens, New York
- Darul Uloom Seattle
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- Islam in India
- Islam in Pakistan
- Islamic seminaries and theological colleges
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- Deobandi Islamic universities and colleges
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