The Madrasa at Deoband
A Model for Religious Education in Modern India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3631385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Metcalf, Barbara D Metcalf (0000-0001-9449-0204, University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-134 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00008179 |
| OpenAlex | W2130798901 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 2 |
A Recent conference of specialists on the study of Muslims in South Asia identified as one of the neglected areas of their field the study of traditional religious institutions in the modern period. Such institutions as the sufi orders, the religious schools, and the system of pious endowments have been treated, if at all, only in their relation to political developments. Thus the leading theological academy of modern India, the Dār ul-'Ulūm of Deoband, has been studied because many of its ulama played an important role in nationalist politics in India and opposed the foundation of Pakistan. That motive for study has seriously distorted the treatment of the nineteenth-century history of the school, endowing it with an anti-British and revolutionary character when, in fact, the school's concerns were totally a-political. An investigation of the early history of the school suggests many other significant historical themes, notably an important incipient trend toward a formal bureaucratization of the ulama and their institutions. Studies of religious institutions outside India such as Gilsenan's study of the Hamidiya Shadhiliya order in modern Egypt and Roff's study of the Majlis Ugama in Malaysia4 suggest that successful functioning in the modern period has required such a transformation in organizational structure. This article describes the organization of Deoband in its initial decades
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Bureaucracy · Modern history · Nationalism · Order (exchange · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Religious Education and Schools
Darul Ulum Deoband
Contemporary Education System and Islamic State
Application of themes from Al-Mawwaq’s work in reforming the Deoband curriculum in Islamic education in the South African Darul Ulooms
The Role of Islam in Muslim Higher Education in India
Knowledge and power in a girls’ madrasa in India
Postcolonial Islam in My Son the Fanatic
Disputing Descent-Based Authority in the Idiom of Religion
Modernizing Islamic Education in the Most Populated Muslim World
Introduction
Specialization in Hadith (Takhassus al-Hadith) at Islamic Studies Institution in India
Trading Halal
The hidden Olympians
Cheek by jowl’
Replicating the Deobandi model of Islamic schooling
To madrasahs or not to madrasahs
The Potential for Expressing Post-secular Citizenship Through the Deobandi Doctrine
The Naqshbandi/Saifiyya Battle for Islamic Tradition
O You who Believe, Eat of the Tayyibāt (pure and wholesome food) that We Have Provided You'-Producing Risk, Expertise and Certified Halal Consumption in South Africa
Madrasas as partners in education provision
Safeguarding Islam' in modern times
The Teacher, the Activist, and the Maulvi
Continuity in Mind
Madrasa Reforms and Islamic Modernism in Bangladesh
Shedding Light on the Modalities of Authority in a Dar al-Uloom, or Religious Seminary, in Britain
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |