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 Belowoffers 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.
Brannon D. Ingramis Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University.
"Revival from Belowoffers a convincing and powerful corrective to earlier scholarship on the Deobandi tradition. Using previously unexamined sources, Brannon Ingram brilliantly widens his analytical gaze to the complex global networks formed by Deobandi clerics and intellectuals and ultimately produces a book that affects our understanding of the trajectory of South Asian Islam from the late-19th century to the present."—Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"This richly informed study puts front and center the ethical Sufism of the Deobandi reform movement. In doinlҬ
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