List of Islamic seminaries


This is a list of Islamic seminaries throughout history, including the operational, historical, defunct or converted ones. This list includes mainly madrasa in the Western context, which refers to the specific type of religious school or college for the study of the Islamic religion and Islamic educations, though this may not be the only subject studied. It also includes sectarian or regional variants which have distinct characteristics and traditions, though serves the identical purposes as seminary, namely Hawza of Shi'a Islam, Nezamiyeh in the medieval Persia, Darul Uloom which has roots in South Asia, Qawmi in Bangladesh, pesantren in Indonesia, and pondok in Malaysia and Southern Thailand. This list does not include institutions which are not religious seminaries, but have an Islamic identity or charter, or devoted to sciences and arts usually associated with Islamic culture and history, namely Islamic University.

List of Islamic seminaries

The listings are in alphabetical order by country.

Bangladesh

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cyprus

Egypt

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Mali

Morocco

Pakistan

Palestine

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

Spain

Syria

Sudan

Tunisia

Turkey

United Kingdom

United States

Ukraine

Uzbekistan

Yemen

List of oldest Islamic seminaries

YearCurrent LocationNameOther notes
737Tunisia