Habibullah Qurayshi

[3] Habibullah Qurayshi was born in 1865, to the Bengali Muslim Mianji family in Qazipara, Chariya village, Hathazari, Chittagong District.

[4] The family traced their ancestry to Marwan ibn al-Hakam, the fourth Umayyad caliph and a member of the Arab tribe of Quraysh.

[9] After spending some time there, he joined the Jameul Uloom in Kanpur, where he spent 7 years studying under Ashraf Ali Thanwi.

[10] Completing his education thereon, Qurayshi pledged bay'ah to Thanwi who instructed him to return to Bengal and establish a hujra near his home for spiritual asceticism.

[16] With the permission of his teacher, Qurayshi established a small building for teaching purposes (now located just west of the present Chariya Madrasa).

Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam is the largest and oldest Deobandi seminary in Bangladesh , [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and ranks among the top ten madrasas of the subcontinent . [ 14 ]