Deobandis are the followers of the Deobandi movement, which originated in Deoband, India in the mid-19th century. The movement emphasizes a strict adherence to Islamic law and traditional Islamic scholarship, particularly in the areas of hadith and fiqh. Abd al-Hayy al-Lucknawi Abdul Aziz Malazada Abdul Haq Akorwi Abdul Haq Azmi Ahmad Hasan Amrohi Akram Toofani Ali Sher Hyderi Anwar Shah Kashmiri Anwar-ul-Haq Haqqani Muhammad Abdul Wahhab Shamsul Haq Afghani Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Ruhul Amin (mufti) Fazlul Haque Amini Muhammad Taqi Amini Noor Alam Khalil Amini Izaz Ali Amrohi Muhammad Mian Mansoor Ansari Ubaidullah Anwar Anzar Shah Kashmiri Abdul Hai Arifi Asghar Hussain Deobandi Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi Nizamuddin Asir Adrawi Muhammad Mustafa Azmi Azhar Shah Qaiser Masood Azhar Abdul Ghani Azhari Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani Abdul Aziz (Pakistani cleric) Habib al-Rahman al-'Azmi Harun Babunagari Junaid Babunagari Muhibbullah Babunagari Riaz Basra Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri Abdul Wahid Bengali Athar Ali Bengali Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi Abdul Halim Bukhari Syed Abuzar Bukhari Syed Ata-ul-Mohsin Bukhari Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari Syed Noor ul Hassan Bukhari John Mohammed Butt Ismail Ahmed Cachalia Abdur Rahman Chatgami Abdus Salam Chatgami Ibrahim Chatuli Abdul Haleem Chishti Abdul Jalil Choudhury Najib Ali Choudhury Abdul Matin Chowdhury (scholar) Izharul Islam Chowdhury Fida-Ur-Rehman Darkhawasti Abdul Majid Daryabadi Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi Ebrahim Desai Muhammad Faizullah Shamsul Haque Faridpuri Fazlur Rahman Usmani Rashid Ahmad Gangohi Fazli Ghafoor Abdul Rashid Ghazi Hamid al-Ansari Ghazi Mahmood Ahmed Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq Ghulam Muhammad Din Puri Muhammad Ilyas Ghuman Manazir Ahsan Gilani Nur Uddin Gohorpuri Uzair Gul Peshawari Hafiz Muhammad Ahmad Khalid Hafiz Abdul Ghafoor Haideri Abdul Malek Halim Obaidullah Hamzah Abdul Salam Hanafi Azizul Haq Ubaidul Haq Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani Jalaluddin Haqqani Sardar Ali Haqqani Abrarul Haq Haqqi Azizul Haque (scholar) Mahfuzul Haque Mamunul Haque Asrarul Haq Qasmi Shams-ud-din Harifal Mahmudul Hasan (scholar) Shah Ahmad Hasan Syed Ahmad Hashmi Aziz Ur Rahman Hazarvi A F M Khalid Hossain Mohammad Mujahid Khan Al Hussaini Muhammadullah Hafezzi Shaikh Idrees Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi Abdul Momin Imambari Imamuddin Punjabi Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi Malik Ishaq Abdur Razzaq Iskander Shahidul Islam (Mufti) Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi Qari Ismail Farid Uddin Masood Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi Khair Muhammad Jalandhari Muhammad Ali Jalandhari Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari Jamaat Ansarullah Hasan Jan Abul Hasan Jashori Majid Ali Jaunpuri Haq Nawaz Jhangvi Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi Nurul Islam Jihadi Syed Adnan Kakakhail Kaleem Siddiqui Muhammad Saad Kandhlawi Yusuf Kandhlawi Muzammil Hussain