Deobandi Movement

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Book Review: Merger of Two Oceans–Aligarh and Deoband

The Siasat Daily 26 Oct 2021

Almost 150 years have passed since Sir Syed launched his Aligarh Movement and established the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College (now AMU) in Aligarh ... Except for the differences between Sir Syed and the Deobandi Ulema, their relationship was pretty cordial in the formative years of these two movements.

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The Ignorance of Political Islam Continues to Doom Western Policy in Afghanistan

Black Hills Pioneer 25 Oct 2021

The latter party is based on a nineteenth-century South Asian Deobandi reform movement, which sought to use Arab Islamic orthodoxy to arrest the decline of Islam vis-à-vis the rise of political Hindusim in the sub-continent ... Third, the growth of Hanbali movements among urban groups throughout South Asia has been stagnant for decades.

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Who exactly is Hibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s supreme leader?

New York Post 28 Sep 2021

He served the movement as the leader of the Sharia ... Akhundzada is generally considered a Deobandi – depicted as a conservative Sunni revivalist movement that embodies a Salafist egalitarian model and endeavors to mirror the 7th-century epoch and teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

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Iran sharply divided on recognizing the Taliban

Asiatimes 20 Sep 2021

“Despite the fact that Iran’s Islamist regime is a Shia model and the Taliban is a Sunni Deobandi movement driven by a different sect of Islam, they are united in that they are both fundamentalist and radical in terms of their religious orientation and the way they oppose the ...

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Initial Taliban moves fail to convince Afghanistan's neighbors

Korea Times 16 Sep 2021

Stanekzai's business-focused approach, coupled with the pressure on the Taliban to police militants on Afghan soil, some of whom have attacked India in the past, dovetails with the beliefs of Islamic scholars at the alma mater of the Deobandi Islamic revivalist movement, in the ...

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What to expect from Taliban 2.0

Information Clearing House 10 Sep 2021

A wiser, better-traveled and social media-savvy Taliban will strive to avoid the many dire mistakes of its 1996-2001 rule ... To cut an immensely complex story short, the Taliban was born in 1994 across the – artificial – border of Afghanistan and Pakistani Balochistan as a movement by Pashtuns who studied in Deobandi madrassas in Pakistan.

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What to Expect from Taliban 2.0, by Pepe Escobar

The Unz Review 08 Sep 2021

it managed to enrage both woke NATOstan and the US Deep State ... All 33 appointees are Taliban members ... The Tao of staying patient ... To cut an immensely complex story short, the Taliban was born in 1994 across the – artificial – border of Afghanistan and Pakistani Balochistan as a movement by Pashtuns who studied in Deobandi madrassas in Pakistan ... ....

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The Deobandi sect and the Taliban’s cheerleaders in the UK

The Spectator 04 Sep 2021

The Taliban is, after all, a Deobandi regime, a sect that has a long history in Britain. The Deobandi is an anti-imperialist, socially conservative and religiously dogmatic movement that emerged in India in the 19th century which later sought to purify Islam from contamination by British colonialism.

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Ireland can rise above shameful EU response to Afghan refugee crisis

The Irish Times 04 Sep 2021

The European Council’s statement last Tuesday on the Afghanistan crisis is shocking ... It is not as if this approach has worked in the past ... A radical Islamic movement, called Deobandi after its 19th-century place of origin in India, had already established a network of madrassas or Islamic schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  ... .

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Back to the Future: Talibanistan, Year 2000

GlobalResearch 02 Sep 2021

At first, he was your typical hardcore deobandi; the deobandis, as the West would later find out, were an initially progressive movement born in India in the ... Their “educators” were semi-illiterate maulvis who had never known the reformist agenda of the original deobandi movement.

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What is the difference between the Taliban and Isis?

The Independent 31 Aug 2021

A Deobandi fundamentalist Islamist movement originating in the Pashtun areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan and in northern Pakistan, the Taliban was led by Mullah Mohammed Omar and conquered first the province of Herat and then the whole country by September 1996, ...

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Back to the Future: Talibanistan, Year 2000, by Pepe Escobar

The Unz Review 31 Aug 2021

At first, he was your typical hardcore deobandi; the deobandis, as the West would later find out, were an initially progressive movement born in India in the ... Their “educators” were semi-illiterate maulvis who had never known the reformist agenda of the original deobandi movement.

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The Taliban’s Ideological Roots in Colonial India

Consortium News 30 Aug 2021

The authors describe the group’s link to Deobandi Islam, which emerged in 1867 following a major nationalist uprising against the British East India Company ... The roots of this ideology – Deobandi Islam – can be traced to 19th century colonial India ... At its heart, Deobandi Islam was an anti-colonial movement designed to revitalize Islam.

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Who are the IS-K, the terrorist group behind the Kabul blasts?

The Times of India 27 Aug 2021

ISLAMABAD ... Since then, the group had absorbed terrorists into their network and had announced expansion into Central Asia as IS-K ... The IS-K, considered to be the most extreme and violent of all the jihadist militant groups in Afghanistan, follows the Salafist movement of Islam, while the Taliban adhere to the Deobandi school of thought ... .

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Taliban's religious ideology - Deobandi Islam - has roots in colonial India

The Times of India 26 Aug 2021

The roots of this ideology - Deobandi Islam - can be traced to 19th century colonial India. Deobandi Islam emerged in India in 1867, 10 years after a major Indian nationalist uprising against the rule of the British East India Company ... At its heart, Deobandi Islam was an anti-colonial movement designed to revitalize Islam.