Deobandīs in Africa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Deobandīs in Africa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Moosa, Ebrahim

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061403
Doc. NO	:	ALei1800
Main Entry	:	Moosa, Ebrahim
Title & Author	:	Deobandīs in Africa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Moosa, Ebrahim
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,032 words)
Abstract	:	The South Asian diaspora includes Deobandīs who have settled in Africa . The name of the movement derives from that of the Indian city of Deoband, northeast of Delhi, where, in the mid-nineteenth century, a reformist madrasa , Dār al-ʿUlūm, was founded by prominent Sunnī scholars in reaction to British colonialism in India, which they considered a threat to Islam. Deobandism today is an orthodox Sunnī tradition (maslak) with a transnational presence. South Asian merchants and professionals of Gujarati Indian ancestry are the major adherents of Deobandism in Africa, but
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1800.pdf