Shibli National College Azamgarh

Shibli National College is an educational institution located in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1883 by Allama Shibli Nomani, a historian, educationist, and social reformer who was also a companion and adviser to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University. The institution began as a National School, was upgraded to a middle school in 1887, became a high school in 1895, an intermediate college in 1942, and received degree college status in 1946. It is affiliated with Maharaja Suhel Dev University (MSDU), Azamgarh, and is recognised as a Muslim minority institute by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The college offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across disciplines including arts, science, commerce, law, and education, with departments spanning subjects like Botany, Chemistry, Physics, English, History, and Business Management. The college has about ten thousand students, nearly equally divided between males and females. Its library, considered one of the largest in Asia, houses about 750 handwritten manuscripts, including works like 'Al-Arawah' and 'Sirre Akbar', as well as the Upanishads and a Persian translation of the Mahabharata.