Hawzah-Ilmea (Islamic Seminary) during the reign of Qutb Shahi Kingdom in Deccan By the sixteenth century, the education system in Iran had developed on a large scale. The Safawids set it in a new direction of training Shi’ite divines and jurisprudents or “Mujtahids”. The Islamic Seminaries or ‘Hawzah-i-Ilmea were instituted in Hyderabad and Qutb Shahi kingdom which served as an important agency for the diffusion of ideas and knowledge which had developed in Iranian environment. […]