Fifteen madrassas are involved in the government-funded project, each of which will link with three primary schools to share ideas about teaching methods and understand more about how each other works.
If the project is successful it will be expanded to Manchester and then Leicester.
Mohammed Ali, chief executive of the Bradford-based QED project, welcomed the Department for Children, Schools and Families funding for the project but urged the government to do more.
"With the current climate and suspicion of Islam we need to make sure we make the most of madrassas to reassure people they are not a breeding ground for terrorists," he said.
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