Politico-religious parties form a united group with some overt and covert political aims Leaders of 21 politico-religious parties of the Deobandi school of thought -- including two factions of Jamiat ...

Following the Taliban’s rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought back have led a large ...

That Salman Rushdie is once again at the centre of a political storm in the land of his birth over a book he wrote nearly a quarter of a century ago tells us something's afoot in Indian Islam. The ...

Note: This BBC interview can be heard in the Here & Now podcast or with the WBUR app. BBC correspondent Owen Bennett Jones has been exploring the Deobandi school of Islam. It started in India when ...

Pakistan needs to be serious about closing down 600 Deobandi madrassas in the country, an influential US lawmaker has said, underlining that there is a prevailing sentiment in the Congress and Trump ...

An FIR has been filed and 190 people booked on Friday after a brawl occurred between followers of the Barelvi and Deobandi schools of thought The witness said followers of the two schools confronted ...

Saharanpur (UP): 'Ulemas' (body of Muslim scholars) at Deoband, which is home to one of the largest Islamic seminaries in the country, have questioned Uttar Pradesh government's recent decision of not ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Following the Taliban's rapid taking of power in what it describes as a reestablished 'œIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan,'ť fears of a certain kind of Islamist ideology being brought ...

(The Conversation) — Deobandi Islam, the religious school that the Taliban draw their ideology from, was set up in 19th century India to educate Muslim youth. (The Conversation) — Following the ...