Synonyms
Definition
Originating with the founding of the Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband madrasa in 1867, the Deoband School is a traditionalist, reform-minded intellectual and educational movement in Sunni Islam with thousands of affiliated madrasas around the world.
Introduction
“Deoband School” can denote the Islamic seminary (madrasa), known as Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband, located in the north Indian city of Deoband, as well as the global Sunni reformist movement that emerged from that institution. The Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband has been the institutional and spiritual center of what is today one of the most influential and important Muslim reformist movements in the world, the central node in a global network of thousands of institutions based on its curriculum and teachings, stretching across South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern Africa, and parts of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean [20].
The Deoband School has combined a traditionalist approach...
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Alam A (2006) Understanding Deoband locally: interrogating Madrasat Diyā’ al-‘Ulūm. In: Hartung JP, Reifeld H (eds) Islamic education, diversity, and national identity: Dini Madaris in India post 9/11. Sage, New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London
Alam A (2008) The enemy within: Madrasa and Muslim identity in north India. Mod Asian Stud 42(2/3):605–627
Bano M (2007) Beyond politics: the reality of a Deobandi Madrasa in Pakistan. J Islamic Stud 18(1):43–68
Ernst CW, Lawrence BB (2002) Sufi martyrs of love: the Chishti order in south Asia and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Faruqi Z (1963) The Deoband school and the demand for Pakistan. Asia Publishing House, New York
Gaborieau M (1999) Criticizing the Sufis: the debate in early-nineteenth century India. In: de Jong F, Radtke B (eds) Islamic mysticism contested: thirteen centuries of controversies and polemics. Brill, Leiden
Gilani MA (1980) Savāniḥ-i Qāsimī, ya‘nī Sīrat-i Sayyidna al-Imām al-Kabīr Shams al-Islām Hazrat Mawlānā Muḥammad Qāsim al-Nānautawī. Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband, Deoband
Haroon S (2008) The rise of Deobandi Islam in the north-west frontier province and its implications in colonial India and Pakistan, 1914–1996. J Roy Asia Soc 18(1):47–70
Ingram B (2009) Sufis, scholars and scapegoats: Rashīd Aḥmad Gangohī (d. 1905) and the Deobandi critique of Ṣufīsm. Muslim World 99(3):478–501
Kabir H (2009) Replicating the Deobandi model of Islamic schooling: the case of a Quomi Madrasah in a district town of Bangladesh. Cont S Asia 17(4):415–428
Khan MS (2001) Bānī-yi Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband. Maktabah-yi Safdariyya
Metcalf B (2009) Husain Ahmad Madani: the jihad for Islam and India’s freedom. Oneworld, Oxford
Metcalf B (1982) Islamic revival in British India: Deoband, 1860–1900. Princeton University Press, Princeton
Mirathī MA (1978) Tadhkirat al-Rashīd. Maktabah Baḥr al-‘Ulūm, Karachi
Moosa E (2010) History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading Shariʾa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983). In: Ernst C, Martin R (eds) Rethinking Islamic studies: from orientalism to cosmopolitanism. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia
Naeem F (2009) Ṣufīsm and revivalism in South Asia: Mawlana Ashraf ‘Ali Thanvi of Deoband and Mawlana Ahmad Raza Khan of Bareilly and their paradigms of Islamic revivalism. Muslim World 99(3):435–451
Nu‘māni MM (n.d.) Faiṣala Kun Munāẓara. Dār al-Isha‘at, Muradabad
Powell A (1993) Muslims and missionaries in pre-mutiny India. Curzon Press, Richmond/Surrey
Reetz D (2006) Islam in the public sphere: religious groups in India, 1900–1947. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Reetz D (2007) The Deoband Universe: what makes a transcultural and transnational educational movement of Islam? Comp Stud S Asia Afr Mid East 27(1):259–281
Reetz D (2008) Change and stagnation in Islamic education: The Dar ul-‘Ulum Deoband after the Split in 1982. In: Noor FA, Sikand Y, Bruinessen M (eds) The madrasa in Asia. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
Rizvi SM (1977) Tārīkh-i Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband, Idārah-yi Ihtimām-i Dār al-‘Ulūm Deoband, Deoband
Robinson F (2001) The Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic culture in south Asia. Permanent Black, New Delhi
Saharanpuri KA (1990) Al-Muhannad ‘ala al-Mufannad, ya‘nī ‘Aqā’id-i ‘Ulamā’-yi Ahl-i Sunnat-i Deoband. Maktabah al-‘Ilm, Lahore
Sanyal U (2005) Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi: in the path of the prophet. Oneworld, Oxford
Sikand Y (2005) Bastions of the believers: madrasas and Islamic education in India. Penguin India, New Delhi
Tareen S (2009) Normativity, heresy and the politics of authenticity in south Asian Islam. Muslim World 99(3):521–552
Tayyib QM (1975) Maslak-i ‘ulamā’-yi Deoband. Aziz Publications, Lahore
Tayyib QM (n.d.) ‘Ulamā’-yi Deoband: Dīnī Rukh aur Maslakī Mizāj. Maktabah-yi Millat, Deoband
Thanawi AA (1977) Iṣlāhī Nisāb. Maktabah-yi Rashīdiyya, Lahore
‘Usmānī MT (2000) Iṣlāhī Khutbāt. Meman Islamic Publishers, Karachi
Zaman MQ (2008) Ashraf ʿAli Thanawi: Islam in modern South Asia. Oneworld, Oxford
Zaman MQ (2006) Consensus and religious authority in modern Islam: the discourses of the ‘ulama. In: Kramer G, Schmidke S (eds) Speaking for Islam: religious authorities in Muslim societies. Brill, Leiden
Zaman MQ (2002) The ʿUlama in contemporary Islam: custodians of change. Princeton University Press, Princeton
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Ingram, B. (2018). Deoband School. In: Kassam, Z.R., Greenberg, Y.K., Bagli, J. (eds) Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_802
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1267-3_802
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-024-1266-6
Online ISBN: 978-94-024-1267-3
eBook Packages: Religion and PhilosophyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Humanities