Fourteen years after split and Jamiat factions likely to merge

Fourteen years after split and Jamiat factions likely to merge

Subject: History

Section: Modern India

Context: first step towards reconciliation came after the rival camp extended him an invitation to attend its general body meeting in Deoband on May 28

The Deoband School

• The orthodox section among the Muslim ulema organised the Deoband Moovement. It was a revivalist movement
• The Deoband Movement was begun at the Darul Uloom (or Islamic academic centre), Deoband, in Saharanpur district (United Provinces) in 1866 by Mohammad Qasim Nanotavi and Rashid Ahmed Gangohi to train religious leaders for the Muslim community.
• On the political front, the Deoband school welcomed the formation of the Indian National Congress and in 1888 issued a fatwa (religious decree) against Syed Ahmed Khan’s organisations, the United Patriotic Association and the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental Association.
• Objectives
  • To propagate among the Muslims the pure teachings of the Koran and the Hadis
  • To keep alive the spirit of jihad against the foreign rulers .
• The new Deoband leader Mahmud-ul-Hasan (1851-1920) sought to impart a political and intellectual content to the religious ideas of the school.
• The liberal interpretation of Islam created a political awakening among its followers.
• The Jamiat-ul-Ulema gave a concrete shape to Hasan’s ideas of protection of the religious and political rights of the Muslims in the overall context of Indian unity and national objectives.