It was established by scholars led by Muhammad Salim Qasmi and Anzar Shah Kashmiri in 1982 as a result of administration disputes in Darul Uloom Deoband during 1980–1982.

[5][6] On 3 September 2014, the advisory board of Darul Uloom Waqf appointed Muhammad Sufyan Qasmi as its rector.

[7] The seminary publishes, Nida'e Darul Uloom Waqf, a monthly magazine in Urdu and Wahdat al-Ummah, a bi-annual Arabic journal.

[8] The academy was established in order to answer modern challenges and simplify the ideology and discourses of Qasim Nanawtawi.

[8] Hayyat-i-Tayyib, the biography of Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi was among its early publications, which was authored by Ghulam Nabi Kashmiri.