The Political Struggles of the Ulama of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband: Identifying and Operationalizing the Traditionalist Approach to Politics

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dc.contributor.advisorGlass, Jamesen_US
dc.contributor.authorHamid, Myraen_US
dc.contributor.departmentGovernment and Politicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2006-02-04T07:58:14Z
dc.date.available2006-02-04T07:58:14Z
dc.date.issued2005-12-13en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses the example of the political struggles of the religious scholars (ulama) of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband, a highly influential Islamic seminary founded in North India in the 19th century in the wake of Muslim defeat in the Mutiny of 1857 against the British, to identify the salient features of the traditionalist approach to politics and examine how this approach can be operationalized. The paper compares the traditionalist orientation to politics, which the school at Deoband and the movement that emerged from there came to represent, with modernist and fundamentalist/Islamist approaches. It proposes that the understudied but extremely important traditionalist paradigm provides the basis for more creative, balanced, fruitful, and Islamically authentic political engagement than either of the two opposing trends popular in the Muslim world today.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/3259
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPolitical Science, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligion, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Asia, Australia and Oceaniaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIslamen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTraditionalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSouth Asiaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDeobanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPoliticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUlamaen_US
dc.titleThe Political Struggles of the Ulama of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband: Identifying and Operationalizing the Traditionalist Approach to Politicsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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