The Dars-i Niẓāmī , often referred to as the "Niẓāmī curriculum," is in fact a method of education, rather than a curriculum, that has been prevalent in South Asian madrasa s (Muslim colleges) since the mid-twelfth/eighteenth century. The method of instruction, often associated with a loosely defined curriculum and set of texts, is attributed to Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn al-Sihālawī (d. 1161/1748), a leading scholar of rationalist disciplines such as philosophy and logic and a member of the Indian Farangī Maḥallī family of scholars. The family,