Maulana Muhammad Manzoor Numani(RA) On 27th Zul Hijjah 1417 (5 May 1997), another star of knowledge and piety set. The demise of Moulana Muhammed Manzoor…

Shaykh Masih Allah Khan al-Sherwani By Friends of Deoband Birth Moulana Maseehullah Khan (RA) was born in 1330 A.H. (1910 C.E.) in the district of Aligarh, India….

Mawlana Sayyid Ahmad Hasan Amrohi By Friends of Deoband By Sayyid Mahbub Rizwi Translated by Prof. Murtaz Husayn F. Qurayshi He belonged to the celebrated family of…

Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani   Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani is a theologian, writer, orator, politician, saint and student and Khalifa of Sheikh-ul Hind Maulana Mahmood-…

Lineage & Early Life Hazrat’s father’s family has resided in the village of Varethi, within the Surat district, for centuries. Though their occupation was farming,…

Biography of Maulana Inaamul Hasan; Third Ameer of Tableeghi Jamaat When Allah Ta’aala favors some one He makes unseen arrangements for all the necessary things. The…

Biography of Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi Examplar of IslamicLiving, Exponent of Islam, Defender of Islamic Identity (1914 – 31 December, 1999) During the twentieth century,…

September 30, 2009 Brief Notes On Shaykh al-Hind Mawlana Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (may Allah shower His mercy upon him)   Mawlana ‘Ubayd Allah Sindhi writes: ‘‘Shaykh…

Mawlana Muhammad Mazhar Nanautwi[1] (1238-1302 /1823-1885)   Mawlana Muhammad Mazhar ibn Lutf ‘Ali ibn Muhammad Hasan al-Siddiqi al-Hanafi Nanautwi—the righteous imam, ‘arif (knower of Allah) and mujahid—was amongst the…

The Great and Splendid Gnostic: Shaykh Imdad Allah al-Faruqi al-Thanawi March 8, 2009 An original Deoband.org article By ‘Allama Sayyid ‘Abd al-Hay ibn Fakhr al-Din…