Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar,author and historian. He was honoured with the title of Muhsin-e-Hind by Pakistani scholars.
Mohammad Asrarul Haque was an Indian Muslim scholar and politician,who served as the eighth general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He was a member of the Indian Parliament,and represented Kishanganj seat. He was also the state president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind.
As’ad Madani was an Indian Deobandi Islamic scholar and a politician,who served as the sixth general secretary and the seventh President of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. He was a member of the executive body of Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha,upper house of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh for three terms as a member of the Indian National Congress.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind or Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind is one of the leading organizations of Islamic scholars belonging to the Deobandi school of thought in India. It was founded in November 1919 by a group of Muslim scholars including Abdul Bari Firangi Mahali,Kifayatullah Dehlawi,Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti and Sanaullah Amritsari.
Ubaidul Haq,also spelt Obaidul Haq,was a Bangladeshi teacher,muhaddith,mufassir and writer. He was the former khatib of the national mosque of Bangladesh.
Arshad Madani is an Indian Muslim scholar and the current Principal of Darul Uloom Deoband. He succeeded Asad Madni as the eighth president of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. The organization split around 2008,and Madani continues to serve as the president of its Arshad faction.
Abul Wafa Sanaullah Amritsari was a British Indian,later Pakistani,Muslim scholar and a leading figure within the Ahl-e-Hadith movement who was active in the city of Amritsar,Punjab. He was an alumnus of Mazahir Uloom and the Darul Uloom Deoband. He was a major antagonist of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and the early Ahmadiya movement. He served as the general secretary of the All India Jamiat-i-Ahl-i-Hadith from 1906 to 1947 and was the editor of the Ahl-e-Hadees,a weekly magazine.
Syed Fakhruddin Ahmad (1889-1972) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the Principal of Madrasa Shahi,and the sixth President of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He was a professor of hadith at the Darul Uloom Deoband.
Nizāmuddīn Asīr Adrawi was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar,biographer,historian and author in the Urdu language. He established Madrassa Darus Salam in Adari and served as Officer In Charge of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind in Lucknow from 1974 to 1978.
Muhammad Miyan Deobandi was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar,academic,historian,freedom struggle activist,who served as the fifth general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He wrote books such as Aseeraan-e-Malta,Ulama-e-Hind Ka Shaandar Maazi and Ulama-e-Haqq Aur Unke Mujahidana Karname.
Madrassa Shahi is an Islamic seminary in Moradabad,Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1879 by the poor Muslims of Moradabad under the supervision of Islamic scholar,Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi,who also established the Darul Uloom Deoband. This started as Madrasatul Ghuraba,but gained recognition as Madrasa Shahi. Its first principal was Ahmad Hasan Amrohi.
Hifzur Rahman Seoharwi was an Indian Sunni Islamic scholar and an activist of the Indian independence movement,who served as the fourth general secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He fought against British rule for 25 years (1922-1947) and spent eight years in jail. As a politician,he opposed the partition of India,and served as a member of the Indian Parliament for the Indian National Congress from Amroha from 1952 to 1962.
Zayn al-Abidin Sajjad Meerthi (1910–1991) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and historian and head of the Islamic studies department of Jamia Millia Islamia. His book Tarikh-e-Millat is required reading in the syllabus of Darul Uloom Deoband and in madrasas affiliated with it.
Minnatullah Rahmani was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar who served as the first General Secretary of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama and Darul Uloom Deoband,and a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He also served as the General Secretary of the Jamiat Ulama Bihar. His father Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the founder of Nadwatul Ulama and his son Wali Rahmani established the Rahmani30 institute.
Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad was an Indian Islamic scholar who was one of the most influential ulemas of the 20th century. Sajjad was a founder of Anjuman-Ulama-i-Bihar,Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind,and Imarat-i-Sharia. A leader in the Indian independence movement,Abul Muhasin Muhammad Sajjad participated in the Non-cooperation Movement,Khilafat Movement,and Civil Disobedience Movement;he opposed the partition of India and championed the concept of composite nationalism. He also founded the Muslim Independent Party in 1935 to represent Muslims in Bihar who were disillusioned with Congress and the Muslim League.The Muslim Independent Party formed the government in Bihar in 1937. Yunus,the party president,became the chief minister of Bihar on 1 April 1937.
Muḥammad Usmān Mansoorpuri was an Indian Muslim scholar who served as the first National President of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind's Mahmood faction. He taught hadith at the Darul Uloom Deoband and served the seminary as a working rector.
Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi was an Indian Muslim scholar,jurist,literary critic,and a poet of the Urdu language,who served as the rector of Madrasa Aminia from 1955 to 1979. He participated in the Indian freedom struggle movement and authored books such as Adabībhūl bhulayyān̲,UrdūMasdar Nāmā and Taz̲kirah-yi Sā'il. He compiled the religious edicts of his father Kifayatullah Dehlawi as Kifāyat al-Mufti in nine volumes.
Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi was an Indian Muslim scholar and freedom struggle activist who served as the first general secretary and the fifth president of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. He also served as the third rector of Madrasa Aminia and authored books such as Fear of Hell and Key to the Garden of Bliss.
