Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi was an
Islamic Scholar and the main person responsible for establishing a centre of excellence where the true teachings of Islam are taught. Nanotvi was born in a
Siddiqui 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.