Jamia Nizamia
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| Established | 1876 |
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| Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
| Chancellor | Hazrat Moulana Syed Shah Ali Akbar Nizamuddin Hussaini Sabiri |
| Vice-Chancellor | Hazrat Moulana Mufti Khaleel Ahmed |
| Location | Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.jamianizamia.org |
Jamia Nizamia (Telugu: జామియా నిజామియా, Urdu: جامعہ نظامیہ), more properly, Jami'ah Nizamiyyah, is one of the oldest Islamic seminaries of higher learning for Muslims belonging to Sunnis in India.
It was founded by Shaykh al-Islam Imam Muhammad Anwarullah Khan Farooqi, honorifically known as Fadilat Jung (the title was bestowed upon him by the Nizam), in Hyderabad in 1876. It flourished under the patronage of the Nizam VII of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan.
Over the last 134 years the Jamia has preserved the understanding of Islam and its sciences by the means of unbroken chains of Islamic authorization, viz, the Ijazah and the Isnad, which go back fourteen centuries to tie the institution and its scholars to Muhammad. It was mainly due to the scholarly works accomplished by the faculty of the Jamia Nizamia in the late 19th and 20th centuries that the Hyderabad served as a major hub of academic activities for the sub-continent. The Jamia constitutes a major part of Islamic history in the sub-continent, particularly, the Deccan.
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