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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Deoband"”.
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The Role of Hijra in the History of Deoband: Preserving Islam in a Minority Context
… and critiques a particular modern movement, Deoband, from its origins in the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, focussing on how it used aspects of hijra to adapt to its changing religio-political situation. Using a multidisciplinary approach, including textual analysis and …
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
… young Muslim girls in contemporary South African Deoband mad'ris (elementary religious schools).
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The Limits of Tradition: Competing Logics of Authenticity in South Asian Islam
… half of the century by the pioneers of the Deoband School, an Islamic seminary cum ideological formation established in the North Indian town of Deoband in 1867. Another group of influential North Indian Muslim scholars sharply challenged this movement of reform. </p><p> They argued that …
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Trends in the justificatory force of the Fatawa of the Deobandi mufti
… After the Mutiny of 1857 a group of ulama' in Deoband, in pursuit of the second option, launched an Islamic seminary named, Dar al-Ulum which gained rapid acceptance throughout the Northern Provinces of India. The Deobandi ulama' emerged as a very powerful religious force within the …
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Islamic law and social change : a legal perspective
… namely; al-Azhar (Cairo) and Darul Ulum (Deoband). To do this, I analyze the fatwa (judicial decree) on organ transplantation from both these institutions. My analysis is not aimed at the outcome of the fatwahs, but rather at the processes involved in arriving at the particular verdicts. …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
<p>This dissertation examines the shape, substance, and staging of Muslim orthodoxy in British India, concentrating on how orthodox theologians survived colonial modernity by deploying sociological, discursive, psychic, and hermeneutical strategies. This dissertation is organized around Ashraf `Ali …