Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama

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Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama

Established	1894
Rector	Rabey Hasani Nadvi[1][2]
Students	2000+
Location	Lucknow, India
Website	www.nadwatululama.org

Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama ( داراُلعلوم ندوۃ العلماء‎) is an Islamic institution at Lucknow,^[3] India, which draws large number of Muslim students from all over the world. Nadwatul Ulama fosters a diverse range of both scholars and students including Hanafis (the predominant group), Shafi'is and Ahl al-Hadith. Additionally it is one of very few institutes in the region to teach the Islamic Sciences completely in Arabic. Nadwa's objective was reaching a middle path between classical Islam and modernity. It was founded at Kanpur in 1894 in the first annual convention of Nadwatul Ulema ("Organisation of Scholars") by Muhammad Ali Mongiri, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Mahmud-ul-Hasan and Shibli Nomani with an idea to counter the challenge of western education. The institution was intended to be a modified version of Deoband. The foundation stone was laid by John Briscott Hewitt, Lieutenant Governor of India on November 28, 1906.^[4]

The choice of the name Nadwa was inspired by a hall in Mecca, where nobles used to assemble to deliberate. Nadwa was eventually shifted to Lucknow in 1898 (from Kanpur) and updated the Islamic curricula with modern sciences, vocational training etc.