Dars-i-Nizami

Dars-i Nizami (Urdu: درسِ نظامی) is a study curriculum used in a large portion of Islamic religious school in South Asia. It was standardized (and named after) Mullah Nizamuddin Sehalvi (died 1748) at Firangi Mahal, a famous seminary belonging to a family of Islamic scholars (ulema) in Lucknow, India.

The Dars-i-Nizami system orginated from early 18th century India.^[1] There is some controversy regarding the "reform" of the Dars-i-Nizami system, with some calling it "an 'anti-Islamic' conspiracy, alleging that these are a means to secularise madrasas and rob them of their Islamic identity"—though reformers generally contest that they do not want secularization and that they are not a conspiracy.^[1]

See also

• Madrasah

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Sikand, Yoginder Maulana Tariq Rashid Firangi Mahali on Dars-e Nizami and Madrasa Reform in South Asia

Further reading

• "Literature & traditional madressahs". Dawn. 2002-04-24. http://www.dawn.com/2002/04/24/fea.htm#2. Retrieved 2006-12-06. 

• Rahman, Tariq (February 2004). "The Madrassa and the State of Pakistan". Himal South Asian. Archived from the original on 2006-10-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20061030023237/http://www.himalmag.com/2004/february/essay.htm. Retrieved 2006-12-06. 

• Zaman, Muhammad Qasim (April 1999). "Religious Education and the Rhetoric of Reform: The Madrasa in British India and Pakistan". Comparative Studies in Society and History 41 (2): 294–323.