Revival from below : the Deoband movement and global Islam / Brannon D. Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Brannon D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deoband School (Islam)--History.

Deoband School (Islam).

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The Deoband movement--a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that quickly spread from colonial India to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and even the United Kingdom and South Africa--has been poorly understood and sometimes feared. Despite being one of the most influential Muslim revivalist movements of the last two centuries, Deoband's connections to the Taliban have dominated the attention it has received from scholars and policy-makers alike. Revival from Below offers an important corrective, reorienting our understanding of Deoband around its global reach, which has profoundly shaped the movement's history. In particular, the author tracks the origins of Deoband's controversial critique of Sufism, how this critique travelled through Deobandi networks to South Africa, as well as the movement's efforts to keep traditionally educated Islamic scholars (`ulama) at the center of Muslim public life. The result is a nuanced account of this global religious network that argues we cannot fully understand Deoband without understanding the complex modalities through which it spread beyond South Asia"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

A modern madrasa

The normative order

Remaking the public

Remaking the self

What does a tradition feel like?

How a tradition travels

A tradition contested

Conclusion.

Notes:

"The Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ingram, Brannon D. Revival from below.

ISBN:

9780520297999

0520297997

9780520298002

0520298004

OCLC:

1029805031