Role of Gujjars for Islam in subcontinent.
Role of Gujjars for Islam in subcontinent. 1) Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi main teacher of Tableegi jammat and leader of Deoband school of thought. He was an Islamic Scholar and the main person responsible for establishing an Islamic sect, called deobandism. Nanotvi was born in a GUJJAR family in 1833 in Nanota, a village near Saharanpur, India. He completed his early education in his hometown and then he was sent to Deoband, where he studied in Maulvi Mahtab Ali's madrassa. Then, he travelled to Saharanpur, where he remained with his maternal grandfather. In Saharanpur, he studied elementary kitabs of Arabic grammar and syntax under Maulvi Nawaz. At the end of 1843, Mamluk-Ul-Ali escorted him to Delhi. There, he studied Kafia and various kitabs. Later he was admitted to Madrassa Gaziuddin Khan. his close relative, Muhammad Yaqub Nanotvi wrote: "My late father enrolled him at the Arabic Madrasa and said, 'Study Euclid yourself and complete the arithmetical exercises.' Afte...