Darul Uloom Haqqania

Deobandi movement

Key figures

Qasim Nanotvi · Rashid Gangohi Husain Madani · Mehmud Hasan Shabbir Usmani · Ashraf Ali Thanwi Anwar Kashmiri · Ilyas Kandhlawi Ubaidullah Sindhi · Taqi Usmani

Notable Institutions

Darul Uloom Deoband, India Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur, India Hathazari Madrassah, Bangladesh Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama, India Darul Uloom Karachi, Pakistan Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Pakistan Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan, Iran Darul Uloom London, England Darul Uloom New York, United States Darul Uloom Canada Madrasah In'aamiyyah, South Africa

Movements

Tablighi Jamaat Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Sipah-e-Sahaba Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Taliban

Darul Uloom Haqqania (Urdu: دار العلوم حقانیہ) is an Islamic religious seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and was founded along the lines of Darul Uloom Deoband.

It is most famous for having many senior leaders of the Afghanistan Taliban among its alumni, including Mullah Omar, and its role in supporting the Taliban.^[1][2] The seminary is run by Maulana Sami ul Haq of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.^[3]

The seminary has sometimes been dubbed the "University of Jihad".^[4]

Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has claimed that the plan to assassinate Benazir Bhutto was hatched at Haqqania Akora Khattak^[5]

Darul Uloom Haqqania gave Mullah Omar an honorary doctorate.^[6]

References

1. ^ The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq , Imtiaz Ali, Spotlight on Terror, The Jamestown Foundation, Volume 4, Issue 2, May 23, 2007
2. ^ The 'university of holy war', Haroon Rashid, BBC Online, 2 October 2003
3. ^ Inside Islam's "terror schools", William Dalrymple, New Statesman, 28 March 2005
4. ^ EU snub for hardline Pakistan MP, BBC News Online, 20 April 2005
5. ^ Conspiracy hatched at Akora Khattak: FIA, Express Tribune, 26 May 2010
6. ^ Pakistan religious schools get scrutiny, Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2009

• Education mullah style, Tony Cross, Radio France Internationale, 11 May 2008
• Pakistan: The Taliban takeover, Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman, 30 April, 2007
• Maulana Sami ul-Haq: Father of the Taliban, Center for Strategic and International Studies Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, 27 Jan 2009

See also

• Madrassas in Pakistan
• Darul uloom