Jamia Arabia Masoodia Noorul Uloom (then Madrasa Arabia Noorul Uloom) was founded in Qazipura, Bahraich, on 1 Dhu al-Qadah 1349 AH (29 March 1931 AD) by Mahfoozur Rahman Nami, after the demise of his father Noor Muhammad Bahraichi, on the suggestion of Khwaja Khalil Ahmad Shah, a freedom fighter and political leader of the Indian Congress Party in Bahraich.

[8][9][10] In January 1937, the seminary established a private school teaching leather goods manufacturing under the name Noorul Uloom for the Economic Development of Underprivileged Muslim Youth, which was also given an annual grant of Rs.

Kaleemullah Noori, a former working rector of the saminary, in his student days, on the instructions of his teachers, joined Mahatma Gandhi's Satyagraha movement in 1941, and in this connection, he had to spend more than a year in the jails of Bahraich and Gonda.

[1] Abdul Hafeez Balyawi, the author of the bilingual Arabic-Urdu dictionary Misbahul Lughat[18][19][20] and the third editor of Monthly Darul Uloom,[21][22] was an academic staff member and the warden (Arabic: ناظر الكلية) of the seminary.

[24][25] The notable alumni of Jamia Arabia Noorul Uloom, Bahraich, arranged alphabetically by their names:[26]