How was the Sindh Madressa-tul-Islam set up?
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Sindh Madressatul Islam was founded on 1st September 1885 by a group of enlightened Muslims of Sindh, led by Khan Bahadur Hassanally Effendi, as the first modern Muslim educational institution of Sindh, whose doors were open to everyone irrespective of their religious affiliations.
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Sindh Madrasa was founded on 1 September 1885 by Hassan Ali Effendi, a Sindhi who settled in Karachi. The originally "kafila serai" grounds of pre-colonial Karachi that were located to the east of Mithadareventually incorporated into the school grounds[5]
Its establishment was supported by Indian Muslim jurists including Syed Ahmad Khan and Syed Ameer Ali.[1] It became a popular school for many Muslimsof Sindh and Balochistan. Modeled after a Britishpublic school, Sindh Madrasa remained a high school until 1943 when it was elevated to a college, and in February 2012 was chartered as a university by the Government of Sindh.[2][6]
Today, Sindh Madrasa is a publicly funded university located in the Serai Quarter of downtown Karachi, near Habib Bank Plaza building and I. I. Chundrigar Road on an eight-acre estate which is home to several colonial era buildings most of them designed by architect James Strachan. Sindh Madressatul Islam offers four year undergraduate programs and two year master's degrees, however doesn't award doctorate's. As of 2013, this university has 16 faculty members with PhD degrees teaching there. The university is constructing a 15-floor academic tower in its current campus.[6] The institute has been associated with several prominent South Asian Muslims including Pakistan's founding father and first head of state Mohammad Ali Jinnah who received his matriculation from the school in 1892, apart from Jinnah, Muhammad Hashim Gazdar (9th Mayor of Karachi), Shah Nawaz Bhutto, Abdullah Haroon, Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah and Muhammad Ayub Khuhro also studied here.[1][2]