A subcontinent is a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent. By dictionary entries, the term subcontinent signifies "having a certain geographical or political independence" from the rest of the continent, or "a vast and more or less self-contained subdivision of a continent."

The phrase the Subcontinent, used on its own in English, commonly refers to the Indian subcontinent. Generally, the Indian subcontinent includes the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The region largely comprises a peninsula of Eurasia south of the Himalayas and constitutes a geoculturally distinct region within Asia. The region, however, contains desert, plateau, rain forest, mountains, and a myriad of languages, races, and religions.

Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents, but is variably considered a subcontinent or large peninsula of northwestern Eurasia. Europe is relatively contained from the rest of Eurasia – i.e., Asia to the east – by the Ural Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea.

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf is an Islamic scholar who was born in England. He began his early Islamic and secular studies in Clapton in East London and went on to complete secondary school and further his knowledge of Islam at Darul Uloom Al-Arabiyyah Al-Islamiyyah where he completed the memorisation of the Qur'an by the age of fifteen.^{[citation needed]} Upon the completion of hifz by Hafiz Ali, he went on to study the rigorous, six-year aalim class.^{[citation needed]}

After graduation from Darul Uloom Al Arabiyyah Al Islamiyyah he undertook further studies in South Africa, where he completed ifta at Madrasah Zakariya and a B.A. with honors in Islamic studies at Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, under Professor Abdur-Rahman Doi.^{[citation needed]}

He also travelled to numerous other places to gain knowledge, including Syria, where he gained ijazah from Shaikh Abdul Razzaq al-Halabi and Saharanpur, India, where he received formal accredition to issue fatwas.^{[citation needed]}

He is a signatory of the Pledge of Mutual Respect and Cooperation Between Sunni Muslim Scholars, Organizations, and Students of Sacred Knowledge.