Recently added articles from The Muslim World:
An Islamic Discursive Tradition on Reform as Seen in the Writing of Deoband's Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani*
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Landscape of Religious Reform: Continuity and Change The work of Mufti Muhammad Taqi eUsmam', who has served on both the Shari'a Appellate Branch of Pakistan's Supreme Court (1982-2002) and the Federal Shari'a Court of Pakistan (1980-82), sits at a nexus of transformations within ...
Sufis, Scholars and Scapegoats: Rashid Ahmad Gangohi (d. 1905) and the Deobandi Critique of Sufism
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Deoband madrasa of north India is arguably the most intellectually influential and historically consequential center of Islamic learning outside of the Middle East. Founded in 1867 in the wake of a failed revolt against British rule a decade earlier, the Deoband madrasa aimed to reassert ...
Introduction
Jul 01, 2009; ... Historians of Islam in colonial India and those focused on post partition developments on the subcontinent will be the first to admit that they skate on the thinnest of ice if they claim to enjoy a complex knowledge of the 'Ulama5 tradition in the region. Until recently, historians focused ...
Tafwid al-Talaq: Transferring the Right to Divorce to the Wife
Jul 01, 2009; ... In 1933/ the renowned Hanafi jurist Mawlana Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi2 published an important treatise which would later hold significant implications for Muslim women's right to divorce in India and abroad. This longfatwa entitled al-Hila al-Najiza li'1-Halilat al-ajiza (The Successful Legal Stratagem ...
Normativity, Heresy, and the Politics of Authenticity in South Asian Islam1
Jul 01, 2009; ... Introduction On a Friday afternoon in 1890, an Englishman visited the town of Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, India. Interested in learning more about the local community and their devotional practices, he asked Hajji Muhammad £Abid Hussayn, one of the less well-known founders of the Dar ...