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[[File:Fayziyya madrasa.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Feydiyya School]], the main school of | [[File:Fayziyya madrasa.jpg|thumbnail|right|[[Feydiyya School]], the main school of Seminary of Qom, located near the [[holy shrine of Lady Fatima al-Ma'suma (a)]]]] | ||
'''Shiʿa Seminary''' or '''al-Ḥawza al-ʿIlmīyya''' (Arabic: "{{ia|الحوزة العلمية}}", Farsi: "{{ia|حوزۀ علمیه}}") is the title given to the [[Twelver Shi'a]] educational institution which involves teaching religious ideas and educating religious students. Due to the importance of religious teachings including [[fiqh]] (Jurisprudence) , [[kalam|theology]] and [[Quranic sciences]], a special educational system has been developed for this institution during Shi'a history. | '''Shiʿa Seminary''' or '''al-Ḥawza al-ʿIlmīyya''' (Arabic: "{{ia|الحوزة العلمية}}", Farsi: "{{ia|حوزۀ علمیه}}") is the title given to the [[Twelver Shi'a]] educational institution which involves teaching religious ideas and educating religious students. Due to the importance of religious teachings including [[fiqh]] (Jurisprudence) , [[kalam|theology]] and [[Quranic sciences]], a special educational system has been developed for this institution during Shi'a history. | ||
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There are evidences suggesting that such a usage dates back to a hundred years ago when Shaykh [['Abd al-Karim Ha'iri]] established an institution in [[Qom]] in 1313 Sh/1934, and called it in Farsi "Jami'a-yi 'Ilmiyya-yi Qum" (scholarly university of Qom). Usage of the title "al-Hawza al-'Ilmiyya" started years after that. | There are evidences suggesting that such a usage dates back to a hundred years ago when Shaykh [['Abd al-Karim Ha'iri]] established an institution in [[Qom]] in 1313 Sh/1934, and called it in Farsi "Jami'a-yi 'Ilmiyya-yi Qum" (scholarly university of Qom). Usage of the title "al-Hawza al-'Ilmiyya" started years after that. | ||
== Educational System == | == Educational System == | ||
===Teaching System=== | ===Teaching System=== | ||
Shi'a seminary's teaching system has always been text-based and the first step of a student is acquiring the power to properly understand the text. Shia Seminaries focus on certain texts and use commentaries on text-books. These texts were written by top teachers of seminaries and have often had complications in understanding which were explained by teachers when teaching them, so that mastery of teachers were evaluated by their competence in explaining the complications and the students were evaluated by their competence in interpreting these texts. | Shi'a seminary's teaching system has always been text-based and the first step of a student is acquiring the power to properly understand the text. Shia Seminaries focus on certain texts and use commentaries on text-books. These texts were written by top teachers of seminaries and have often had complications in understanding which were explained by teachers when teaching them, so that mastery of teachers were evaluated by their competence in explaining the complications and the students were evaluated by their competence in interpreting these texts. | ||