Jamia

For the İsmailağa Jamia which is a sub-branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah, see İsmailağa.

For the universities of theology and Languages of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, see Jamia Ahmadiyya.

For the scientific journal in the field of medical informatics, see Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

For the İskenderpaşa Jamia which is a branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya Ṭarīqah, see Community of İskenderpaşa.

For the religious and social Hizmet Cemaati led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen, see Fethullah Gulen Movement.

Jamia (جامعة) (or Jamiya) is the Arabic word for gathering. It can also refer to a mosque, or more generally, a university. In the latter sense it refers in official usage to a modern university, based on the Western model, as opposed to the medieval madrasa. The term seems to be a translation of "university" or the French "université" and emerged in the middle of the 19th century; the earliest definite use in this sense appears in 1906 in Egypt.