Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya
Al-Jāmiʿah Al-Islāmiyyah Patiya (), or simply Patiya Madrasah (), is a private Qawmi Islamic university ("Jāmiʿah"), is the second-most prominent Deobandi madrasah in Bangladesh. History. With the patronage of his teacher Zamiruddin Ahmad, Mufti Azizul Haq established a madrasa named "Zamiria Qasimul Uloom" in 1938. 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. On 27 March 1971, Major-General Ziaur Rahman, the commander of the East Bengal Regiment in  Chittagong and later President of Bangladesh, went to the Free Bengal Radio Centre in Kalurghat and proclaimed Bangladeshi independence from Pakistan. This led to violent unrest and the start of the Bangladesh Liberation War. In search of safety, Ziaur Rahman and his associates took their equipment and headed for the Patiya Madrasah where they spent the night in the guesthouse. Education pattern. 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). 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. The three schools are closely coordinated. 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. Short Course Department. Provides Secondary School Certificate in general Bangladeshi education syllabus. Publications. 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".