Al-Jāmiʿah Al-Islāmiyyah Patiya (Arabic: الجامعة الإسلامية فتية, Bengali: আল জামিয়া আল ইসলামিয়া পটিয়া), better known simply as Patiya Madrasa (Bengali: পটিয়া মাদ্রাসা) and formerly known as Al-Madrasah Aḍ-Ḍamīriyyah Qāsim al-ʿUlūm (Arabic: المدرسة الضميرية قاسم العلوم, Bengali: জমিরিয়া কাসেমুল উলূম), is a Qawmi Madrasah located in Patiya Upazila of Chittagong District, Bangladesh. It was established in 1938 by Azizul Haq under the direction of Zamiruddin Ahmad. It is also known as an International Islamic University.[3] It has a role in the promotion of Islam in Bangladesh, inclusion of Qawmi Madrasas under one syllabus, providing modern and higher education for scholars.
History
With the patronage of his teacher Zamiruddin Ahmad, Mufti Azizul Haq established a madrasa named Zamiria Qasimul Uloom in 1938.[4] It later came to be known as al-Jamia al-Islamiyyah Patiya and was upgraded into an Islamic university. Azizul Haq spent the rest of his life as the chancellor of this madrasa.[5]
The Jāmiʿah has currently these departments of education and classes: Dept. Of Nooranee (kindergarten), Dept. of Nazira and Hifz, and classes from elementary level to the Dawra-e-Hadith (M.A. Class).[8]
Post-graduate classes
Short course curricula
Vocational training and other courses
Other training and Hifz competition
Al-Jamiah Al-Islamiah is one of the three large madrassahs, along with Darul Uloom Muinul in Hathazari and Jamiatul Uloom Al-Islamia Lalkhan Bazar, that together control over 7000 smaller schools in Bangladesh.[9][10] The three schools are closely coordinated.[9] This madrasa founded the Anjuman-e-Ittihad al-Madaris (Association of the Unity of Madrasas), an examination board which is adopted by many other madrasas in the south. They publish examinations annually for 6 class groups.
Subordinate madrasas include the Faiziyyah Tajwid al-Quran Madrasa in Hathazari, the Islamic Education Centre and Clinic in Bandarban (est. 1989), the Islamic Missionary Centre and Clinic in Sukhbilas Rangunia, and the Qasimul Uloom Jamil Madrasah in Bogra (est. 1960) which is the largest madrasa in North Bengal.
Departments
Central Library
Specialised
Dar al-Ifta, the fatwa department which teaches higher-level fiqh
The monthly Al-Tawheed magazine has been published in Bengali by this Jamiah regularly for 43 years, and there is also the Al-Aziz Bengali magazine. The Arabic magazines published by the Jamiah is Balagh as-Sharq (every three months) and Ad-Dairah.
^ abRiaz, Ali (2008). Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia. Rutgers University Press. p. 149. ISBN978-0-8135-4562-2. Three madrassahs are reported to control more than seven thousand smaller madrassahs—al-Jamiah al-Islamia located in Patiya district, Darul Uloom Mainul Madrassah located in Hathazari, and Darul Uloom Madrassah located in Lalkhan Bazar of Chittagong—are closely coordinated and they appear to be the core institutions of a larger network.
