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Tag Archives: Yoginder-Sikand
Journalistic Fascism And Indian Muslims
An extensive interview of Ajit Sahi of Tehelka focusing on role played by Indian media in portraying Indian Muslims as perpetuators of terrorism. Continue reading
Posted in News & Analysis
Tagged communal, Godhra, Hindutva, Indian media, muslims, secularism, SIMI, Tehelka, Yoginder-Sikand
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Interview – Zafarul Islam Khan – AIMMM President
Yoginder Sikand interview newly elected president of All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat.T 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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A Trip to Gujarat
‘Modi Sahib has wrought a revolution in Gujarat’ announced the glum-looking corpulent businessman sitting on the berth next to mine on the train to Ahmedabad recently. He proudly introduced himself as a Nagar Brahmin, even though I did not ask … Continue reading
Posted in Fanatics, Featured, India
Tagged Godhra, Gujarat, Gujarat-Riots, Narendra Modi, 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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