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Era: The Colonial Era
Region: South Asia
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Has member: Ashraf Ali Thanwi· Husain Ahmad Madani· Kifayatullah Dehlvi· Mahmud Hasan Deobandi· Manzoor Nomani· Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi· Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi· Obaidullah Sindhi· Sulaiman Nadvi

People and things also explored

Mahmud Hasan Deobandi· Rashid Ahmad Gangohi· The Chishti order (Chishtiyya)· Delhi· Ashraf Ali Thanwi· Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi· Abdul Majid Daryabadi· Khalil Ahmad al-Saharanpuri

Sources

Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012)

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islam.museum contributors. “The Deobandi movement”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/deobandiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Mahmud Hasan Deobandi

Indian Muslim scholar (1851–1920) known as Shaykh al-Hind. He was the first student enrolled at Darul Uloom Deoband and later its principal (1890–1915); he led the Silk Letter Movement against British rule, was arrested and imprisoned in Malta (1916–1920), and after his release co-founded Jamia Millia Islamia and presided over the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. His Urdu translation of the Qur'an was completed by his student Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as the celebrated Tafsir-e-Usmani.