Deoband

Deoband, a town in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, is the seat of the Dar al-Ulum Deoband, the seminary founded in 1866 that gave its name to the influential Deobandi movement of Hanafi Sunni revivalism in South Asia. Its founder Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi (d. 1880) and the later scholar Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1943) are central figures of the school.