Wifaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia

Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan
وفاق المدارس العربیہ
Other name
The Federation of Madaris
Mottoرَبِّ زدْنيِ عِلْماً (Arabic)
TypeBoard of Islamic seminaries
Established19 October 1959
Religious affiliation
Sunni Islam (Hanafi school, Deobandi)
PresidentMufti Taqi Usmani
Vice-presidentAnwar-ul-Haq Haqqani
Ubaiullah Khalid
Sayyid Sulaiman Yousuf Banuri
Maulana Saeed Yousuf
General SecretaryMuhammad Hanif Jalandhari
Location, ,
Pakistan
Websitewww.wifaqulmadaris.org
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Wifaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia, Pakistan (Urdu: وفاق المدارس العربیہ lit.'Federation of Madaris') is the largest federation of Islamic seminaries in Pakistan, founded in 1959. More than 10,000 seminaries and 23,000 madaris across Pakistan are affiliated with the federation. It controls all the seminaries which are run by Deobandi School of thought.[1][2]

Mufti Taqi Usmani has been appointed as the new president on 19 September 2021 after the death of the former president, Abdur Razzaq Iskander.

Qari Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari is general sectary of the federation. The head office of the federation is situated in Multan.[3]

  1. ^ Amir Wasim (1 October 2013). "Ulema urge govt, Taliban to stop fighting (Ulema from Wifaq ul Madaris)". Dawn (newspaper). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Govt claims accord on seminaries' regulation". Dawn (newspaper). 6 October 2010. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2020.