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'Modern' Madrasa: Deoband and Colonial Secularity
Eine 'moderne' Madrasa: Deoband und koloniale Säkularität
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Abstract This article situates the emergence of the Deoband movement, an Islamic revivalist movement based at India’s Dar al-‘Ulum Deoband madrasa (seminary), within concepts of colonial secularity in British India. It shows how the decline of first Mughal and then British patronage for Islamic learning, as ... view more
This article situates the emergence of the Deoband movement, an Islamic revivalist movement based at India’s Dar al-‘Ulum Deoband madrasa (seminary), within concepts of colonial secularity in British India. It shows how the decline of first Mughal and then British patronage for Islamic learning, as well as the post-1857 British policy of non-interference in ‘religious’ matters, opened up a space for Deobandi scholars to re-conceive the madrasa as a ‘religious’ institution rather than one engaged in the production of civil servants, to reimagine the ‘ulama’ as stewards of public morality rather than professionals in the service of the state, and to reframe the knowledge they purveyed as ‘religious’ knowledge distinct from the ‘useful’ secular knowledge promoted by the British. The article treats this production of ‘religious’ knowledge and space as discourse of distinction similar to those explored elsewhere in this HSR Special Issue.... view less
Keywords
modernization; Islam; colonialism; religious movement; secularization; moral education; religious science; conservatism; religion; India
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Sociology of Religion
Free Keywords
colonialism; madrasa; modernity; secularity
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 206-225
Journal
Historical Social Research, 44 (2019) 3
Issue topic
Islamicate Secularities in Past and Present
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed