Madinatul Uloom Bagbari

The Madinatul Uloom Bagbari Najibia Alia Madrasa (

History

It was founded in 1873 by the eminent Islamic scholar

Modelled after the famous Darul Uloom Deoband (which had been established only a few years earlier), the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari was the first true madrasa in the region, having offered a standardised education in contrast to the informal institutions which had existed previously.^[2] It initially provided courses up to "Shar-e-Jami", with the degree-level "Dawra-e-Hadith" course also being introduced after 1992.^{[4][note 1]}

Reputation

Over the course of its history, the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari came to play a very prominent role in producing

Najib Ali Choudhury's descendant Abdul Bari Choudhury, was appointed as the principal of Madinatul Uloom Bagbari in 1948 after returning from his studies at Darul Uloom Deoband. In the same year, his great-grandson Abdul Munim Choudhury was made the first Shaykhul Hadith (Professor of Hadith). Among Choudhury's other descendants is Jamil Ahmad Choudhury, who is a teacher at the madrasa, as well as Saeed Ahmad Choudhury and Abdul Ahad Choudhury, who are members of the executive committee.^[7]

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