The ‘ulama of Deoband — named after a sleepy north Indian town where a group of scholars established a madrasah to safeguard and propagate sacred knowledge — are adherents of one of the four imams of fiqh: Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Shafi‘, Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal; and follow the Ash‘ari and Maturidi schools of creed. As epitomes of Shari‘ah and Tariqah, the ‘ulama of Deoband were and are practitioners of a strict fiqh-based Tasawwuf, and follow the Chishti, Naqshbandi, Qadri and Suhrawardi tariqahs.

This app has been developed to impart their writings, thought and ideas, which are firmly grained in Qur’an and Hadith as understood by scholars of bygone times.