Search Home News Democracy Investigation Cafe Young India Blog EYE ON RSS Follow Us E paper OPINION An austere ‘House of Learning’ The seminary does not accept government or corporate grants.It is run entirely on small donations but provides free boarding, lodging,books and clothing to scholars Darul Uloom Deoband S Khurram Raza Published: 13 Sep 2019, 8:00 AM Engagement: 151 Darul Uloom (House of Knowledge), Deoband, founded by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotawi, is the second most respected Islamic University after Jamia Al-Azhar University in Cairo. While Al-Azhar is believed to have been set up around 988 AD, Darul Uloom was established in 1866. The seminary, where 5,000 scholars study at a given time, is run entirely on charity and does not charge anything for education, boarding and lodging from scholars. Even
