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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Deobandi"”.
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Trends in the justificatory force of the Fatawa of the Deobandi mufti
… throughout the Northern Provinces of India. The Deobandi ulama' emerged as a very powerful religious force within the Subcontinent of India. How did they exert their power, authority and influence over the general masses? The basic thesis of this study is that their authority and influence over …
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A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia
… 150-year religio-political rivalry between the Deobandis and the Barelvis--arguably the most important schism in the "Muslim world," and certainly the most significant within Sunni Islam. More recently, that rivalry has often been expressed by means of bullets and bombs, especially in Pakistan. …
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ASHRAF 'ALI THANAWI'S BIHISHTI ZEWAR: MUSLIM FEMALE PIETY UNDER THE DEOBANDI MOVEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA
This thesis is a comparative historical study, using literary sources, of the Urdu literature directed towards women of the ashraf class in late colonial India. The study explores the both religious and secular literature in Urdu produced during the dusk of imperialism in India. It concludes that …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
… years, Bangladesh has been deeply influenced by Deobandi-cum-Wahhabi Islam with Salafi ideology. This ideology has been propagated through countrywide qaomi madrassahs and Jamaat-e-Islami’s devotional activities that are combined with economic, theological, and moral support from Middle Eastern …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
… studied a multi-year Islamic syllabus at local Deobandi seminaries for women where they begin their journeys of becoming pious Muslims. I examine the shifts and continuities in their engagements with knowledge and the ‘ulama, and how these figure in their projects of the self as well as in the …