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Tag Archives: madarsa
Deoband: “Terrorism is Un-Islamic”
A path-breaking declaration by 10,000 religious leaders at Deoband should be the starting point of a mature dialogue Continue reading
Traditionalist ulema lead educational revolution in Kerala
Kerala’s Muslims are unique among their co-religionists in India in fashioning a system of education that enables their children to attend both religious as well as regular schools at the same time. Muslims account for around a fourth of Kerala’s … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Education, Kerala, madarsa, Madarsah, Yoginder-Sikand
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Madrasa Reforms and the Deobandi Ulema’s Response
Recent years have witnessed heated debates on the question of reforms in the system of madrasa education in South Asia. Spurred principally by a chain of political developments, governments, policy making institutions, think tanks, journalists, public intellectuals, social activists as … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Deobandi, indian-madarsa, madarsa, Madarsah, madrasa, Yoginder-Sikand
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Interview with a Nadvi Maulana
Maulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi, Dean of the Faculty of Shariah at the renowned Nadwat ul-Ulama madrasa in Lucknow and member of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board, is a senior Indian Muslim scholar. In this interview, he talks about various … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged indian-madarsa, madarsa, Madarsah, Maulana Salman Hussaini Nadvi, Nadwa, Nadwat ul-ulama, Terrorism, Yoginder-Sikand
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Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview
Waris Mazhari, a leading Islamic scholar, is the editor of the New Delhi-based Tarjuman-i Dar ul-Ulum, the official organ of the Old Boys’ Association of the Deoband Madrasa. In this interview he talks about the problems that mark inter-sectarian relations … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Indian-Islam, indian-madarsa, Indian-Muslim, interview, madarsa, madrasa, sects, waris-mazhari, Yoginder-Sikand
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Three Maulanas and Madrasas: Interviews
We present here three interviews of well-known Maulanas over the issues of Madrasas and allegations against them and on inter-communal harmony. The three Maulanas are Maulana Asrar ul-Haq Qasmi, a graduate of the Deoband madrasa, is the founder and director … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, India, Islam
Tagged Darul-Uloom, Deobandi, madarsa, Madarsah, madrasa, militancy, Shia, Terrorism, Yoginder-Sikand
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