Understanding the Deobandi community in India... and documenting its work.
Channel: Frederick FN Noronha
Date: 2023-05-01

A group of Indian Muslims --  Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fazlur Rahman Usmani and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi -- in British colonial times founded an Islamic seminary (madrassa) known as Darul Uloom Deoband, where the Islamic revivalist and anti-imperialist ideology of the Deobandis began to develop. In time, the Darul Uloom Deoband became the second largest focal point of Islamic teaching and research after the Al-Azhar University, Cairo. Towards the time of the Indian independence movement and afterward in post-colonial India, the Deobandis advocated a notion of composite nationalism by which Hindus and Muslims were seen as one nation who were asked to be united in the struggle against the British rule. Info courtesy the Wikipedia. A brieFNcounter with A. Anjum Aafi, a Master's student at Jamia Milia and active Wikipedian.. Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN).