Islamic Revival in British India : : Deoband, 1860-1900 / / Barbara D. Metcalf.

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1982
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 778
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: The Pattern of Islamic Reform
  • The 'Ulama in Transition
  • I The 'Ulama In Transition: The Eighteenth Century
  • II. The 'Ulama In Transition: The Early Nineteenth Century
  • The Deobandi Movement And School
  • III The Madrasah at Deoband
  • IV The Style of Religious Leadership, I: Muftis and Shaikhs
  • V The Style of Religious Leadership, II: Writers and Debaters
  • VI The Social Milieu of the Deobandi 'Ulama
  • Other Movements of Renewal
  • VII Alternative Tendencies within Sunni Islam: The Ahl-i Hadis and the Barelwis
  • VIII Further Alternatives: Aligarh and Nadwah
  • Conclusion: New Sects, New Strategies, Old Patterns
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter