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Deoband: “Terrorism is Un-Islamic”

by Mirza Faisal

A path-breaking declaration by 10,000 religious leaders at Deoband should be the starting point of a mature dialogue

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Traditionalist ulema lead educational revolution in Kerala

by Yoginder Sikand

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 population, and the state’s Muslims, known as Mapillas, are among the most literate of the [...]

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Madrasa Reforms and the Deobandi Ulema’s Response

by Yoginder Sikand

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 well as the ulema of the madrasas themselves have been discussing the issue, often speaking [...]

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Interview with a Nadvi Maulana

by Yoginder Sikand

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 aspects related to madrasas in contemporary India.   YS: Today, madrasas in general suffer from [...]

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Indian Muslims and Sects: Interview

by Yoginder Sikand

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 among the Indian Muslim ulema.   YS: The Quran and Hadith places much stress on [...]

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Three Maulanas and Madrasas: Interviews

by Yoginder Sikand

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 of the Delhi-based All-India Ta’limi-o Milli Foundation. Maulana Saeed ur-Rahman is the principal of the [...]

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