Thana Bhawan

Thana Bhawan, a town in the Shamli district of western Uttar Pradesh, northern India, is the place from which the Deobandi scholar Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d. 1943) took his nisba 'Thanwi'; he was associated with its khanqah and spent much of his later life there as a leading Sufi-juristic authority of the Deoband school.