Darul Uloom Deoband

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Jesse Russel, Ronald Cohn
Book on Demand, 2013 - 76 pages
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Darul Uloom Deoband (Hindi:, Urdu: ) is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars (Ulema), headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi. The other prominent founding scholars were Maulana Rasheed Ahmed Gangohi and Haji Saiyyid 'abid Husaiyn. The institution is highly respected across the India, as well as in other parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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