Mahmud Hasan Deobandi

Mahmud Hasan Deobandi was an Indian Muslim scholar and an activist of the Indian Independence Movement, who co-founded the Jamia Millia Islamia University and launched the Silk Letter Movement for the freedom of India. He was the first student to study at the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary. His teachers included Mahtab Ali Deobandi, Muhammad Qasim Nanawtawi and Mahmud Deobandi, and he was authorized in Sufism by Imdadullah Muhajir Makki and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.