Deobandi
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Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam. Sunni Muslims are referred to in Arabic as ʾAhl ūs-Sunnah wa āl-Ǧamāʿah or ʾAhl ūs-Sunnah for short; in English, they are known as Sunni Muslims, Sunnis or Sunnites....

. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband
Darul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars , headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi...

 in Deoband
Deoband
Deoband is a city and a municipal board in Saharanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located in the upper Doab region of Uttar Pradesh. Deoband used to be surrounded by dense forests, and was believed to be the abode of the Goddess Durga, according to one tradition this is...

, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.

History

Its six founders were Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi was a world famous Islamic Scholar and one of the main people responsible for establishing the Deobandi movement. Nanotvi was born in 1833 in Nanota, a village near Saharanpur, India. He completed his primary education in his hometown and then he was sent to Deoband, where he...

, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi
Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi
Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi was one of the founders of the Deobandi movement, along with his cousin, Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi. Muhammad Yaqub had gained familiarity with higher education at Delhi College, where his father Mamlook Ali was head of the Arabic department, and had also served as Deputy...

, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman 'Usmani and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi. They played a key role in establishing similar institutions in other parts of the Indian subcontinent. Meanwhile Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat
Tablighi Jamaat is a religious movement which was founded in 1926 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi in India. The movement primarily aims at Tablighi spiritual reformation by working at the grass roots level, reaching out to Muslims across all social and economic spectra to bring them closer to...

, founded in 1926 by Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi, promoted the ideas of the Deobandi school worldwide.

In the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom a vast majority of Muslims follow Hanafi
Hanafi
The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...

 Deobandi
Deobandi
Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband in Deoband, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.-History:...

 school of Thought.
According to The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

, about 900 of Britain's nearly 1,500 mosques are run by Deobandi affiliated scholars, and 19 of the country's 25 Islamic seminaries follow Sunni Deobandi teachings, producing 80% of all domestically trained Ulema
Ulema
Ulama , also spelt ulema, refers to the educated class of Muslim legal scholars engaged in the several fields of Islamic studies. They are best known as the arbiters of shari‘a law...

.The majority of mosques are Sunni Deobandi
Deobandi
Deobandi is a movement of Sunni Islam. The movement began at Darul Uloom Deoband in Deoband, India, where its foundation was laid on 30 May 1866.-History:...

 ; in 2010, the affiliation of the mosques was, 65% Deobandi, 20% Barelvi, 6% Salafi, 4% Shi'a, and 3% Maudoodi-inspired. The majority of mosque managers are of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin

Beliefs

Deobandi beliefs, like those of other Muslims, are based on the Quran and Sunnah
Sunnah
The word literally means a clear, well trodden, busy and plain surfaced road. In the discussion of the sources of religion, Sunnah denotes the practice of Prophet Muhammad that he taught and practically instituted as a teacher of the sharī‘ah and the best exemplar...

.

Tablighi Jamaat

Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary organisation, came forth as an offshoot of the Deobandi movement. Its inception is believed to be a response to Hindu reform movements, which were considered a threat to vulnerable and non-practicing Muslims. It gradually expanded from a local to a national organisation, and finally to a transnational movement, and it now has followers in over 150 countries.

Notable Institutions

  • Jamiah Rahmania Arabia Dhaka
    Jamiah Rahmania Arabia Dhaka
    Jamiah Rahmania Arabia Dhaka is one of the distinguished Qawmi Islamic Universities in Bangladesh. The Jamiah is established in 1986, at Muhammadpur, Dhaka by Sheikhul Hadith Allama Azizul Hoque, a famous Islamic scholar of the sub-continent and the first Bengali translator of Sahih al-Bukhari. At...

    , Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Jamiah Islamiah Yunusia Brahmanbaria
    Jamiah Islamiah Yunusia Brahmanbaria
    Jamiah Islamiah Yunusia Brahmanbaria, also known as Brahmanbaria Yunusia Madrasah, is one of the well-known Qawmi Jamiahs of Bangladesh. Al-Jamiah Islamiah Yunusia is established by Maulana Abu Taher Muhammad Yunus, after whom the Madrasah was named, in 1914, in the center of Brahmanbaria...

    , Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

  • Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam, Chittagong, Bangladesh
  • Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh
    Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh
    Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh is an institution for higher Islamic studies in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It has seven education sections from kindergarten to post-graduate levels.-History:...

    , Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Darul Uloom Deoband
    Darul Uloom Deoband
    The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars , headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi...

    , Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama
    Darul-uloom Nadwatul Ulama
    Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama is an Islamic institution at Lucknow, India, which draws large number of Muslim students from all over the country. Nadwa's objective was reaching a middle path between classical Islam and modernity...

    , Lucknow, India
  • Darul Uloom Hyderabad
    Darul Uloom Hyderabad
    Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Hyderabad , is an Islamic seminary located in Hyderabad Deccan. India. It continues the tradition of the Darul uloom system initiated by Darul Uloom Deoband. It is one of the leading educational institutions in South India and considered one of the top Islamic...

    , Hyderabad, India
  • Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur
    Mazahirul Uloom Saharanpur
    Jamia Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur is an old Madrasa established in Saharanpur city of Uttar Pradesh, India. The Jamiah was founded in Nov 1866 just months after Darul Uloom Deoband was founded in May 1866...

    , India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

  • Jamia Binoria
    Jamia Binoria
    Jamia Binoria is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most modern madrassas. It should not be confused with the Jamiah Islamiya madrassa in Binori Town, Karachi....

    , Karachi, Pakistan
  • Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Darul 'Uloom Karachi
    Darul 'Uloom Karachi
    Darul 'Uloom Karachi is an Islamic seminary located in Karachi, Pakistan. It continues the tradition of the Darul uloom system initiated by Darul Uloom Deoband. It was started by the late Grand Mufti of Pakistan, Mufti Muhammad Shafi and Mawlana Noor Ahmad, in 1951...

    , Karachi, Pakistan
  • Ahsan-Ul-Uloom
    Ahsan-Ul-Uloom
    Jamiah Arabia Ahsan-Ul-Uloom is an international Sunni Islamic educational institute located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is regarded as one of the most established madrassas because of its teachings that mainly focuss on understanding the Fiqh and refraining from performing...

    , Karachi, Pakistan
  • Jamiatur Rasheed, Karachi
    Jamiatur Rasheed, Karachi
    Jamiatur Rasheed, Karachi, also known as Kulya-tush-Shariah, Jamia-tur-Rasheed, is an Islamic institution situated in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Hazrat Mufti Rasheed Ahmed Ludhianwi has established the Jamiah. It is a distinctive institution of religious studies providing for a comprehensive system...

    , Karachi, Pakistan
  • Jamia Ashrafia
    Jamia Ashrafia
    Jamia Ashrafia , Lahore, Pakistan, is a religious educational institution founded by Mufti Muhammad Hasan in 1947...

    , Lahore, Pakistan
  • Darul Uloom Haqqania
    Darul Uloom Haqqania
    Darul Uloom Haqqania is an Islamic religious seminary located in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The seminary propagates the Deobandi trend of Sunni Islam and was founded along the lines of Darul Uloom Deoband....

    , Akora Khattak
    Akora Khattak
    Akora Khattak is a city along the Peshawar-Rawalpindi road, in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.-Birthplace of Khushal Khan Khattak:Akora Khattak is the birth place and burial place of the famous poet Khushal Khan Khattak...

    , Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

  • Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan
    Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan
    Jamiah Darul Uloom Zahedan is the largest and highest seat of Islamic knowledge and learning for the Sunnis in Iran. The great scholar Maulana Abdul Azeez, son of the great Mojahid Shaikh Abdullah, founded the Jamiah with a view to create consciousness about the Holy Qur'an and Sunnah among the...

    , Zahedan
    Zahedan
    Zahedan is a city in and the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 552,706, in 109,488 families.-Geography:...

    , Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

  • Darul Uloom London
    Darul Uloom London
    Darul Uloom London is an Islamic seminary located in Kent, Greater London. It was started by Mufti Mustafa Musa is 1988 making it one of the old Islamic seminaries in the UK and the oldest in London...

    , London, England
  • Darul Uloom New York
    Darul Uloom New York
    Darul Uloom New York is a higher Islamic educational institution founded by Shaikh Shahidul Islam of Bangladesh in 1997, New York, United States. The aim is to prepare a group of qualified, capable and dedicated Muballigheen, Ulama, and Huffaz of Qur'aan who will be committed to become sincere and...

    , New York, United States
  • Darul Uloom Canada
    Darul Uloom Canada
    Darul Uloom Canada is an institution of traditional Islamic education center dedicated to transmitting the trust of knowledge to future generations. Students will receive a holistic education designed to meet their spiritual, academic, intellectual, physical and social needs so that they may...

    , Ontario, Canada
  • Darul Uloom Bury, Bury, England
  • Darul Uloom Al-Madania
    Darul Uloom Al-Madania
    Darul Uloom Al-Madania is a private Islamic Seminary in Buffalo, New York that is devoted to producing Islamic scholars and Huffaz.-History:Darul Uloom Al-Madania was founded by Hazrat Ismail Memon and his son Sheik Ibrahim Memon Madani...

    , Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

  • Madrasah In'aamiyyah
    Madrasah In'aamiyyah
    The Madrasah In’aamiyyah Camperdown, is an institute of higher Islamic learning and teaching based in Durban, South Africa. A number of students from United States, Canada, Belgium, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malaysia, Philippines, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia are receiving education at the...

    , KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994, the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and the homeland of KwaZulu....

    , South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

  • Darul Uloom Bolton
    Darul Uloom Bolton
    Darul Uloom Bolton is a Muslim secondary school in Bolton, England. It was founded in 1993 by former Principal, Hazrat Qari Yakub Nanji and Haji Yousef Bhailok, who is currently the head trustee...

    , Bolton, England

Scholars

  • Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
    Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi
    Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi was a world famous Islamic Scholar and one of the main people responsible for establishing the Deobandi movement. Nanotvi was born in 1833 in Nanota, a village near Saharanpur, India. He completed his primary education in his hometown and then he was sent to Deoband, where he...

     (Founder of Darul Uloom Deoband
    Darul Uloom Deoband
    The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars , headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi...

     )
  • Rashid Ahmad Gangohi
  • Maulana Mehmud Hasan
    Maulana Mehmud Hasan
    Shaykh-ul-Hind Maulana Mehmud Al-Hasan was an eminent Islamic Scholar who made tireless efforts in the freedom struggle during the British Rule in India. He was conferred upon by the title 'Shaykh-ul-Hind' which means the leading scholar of India. -Early life:Mehmud Hasan was born in the town of...

  • Husain Ahmed Madani
    Husain Ahmed Madani
    Syed Husain Ahmad Madani was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent. He was conferred upon the title of Shaikhul Islam as to acknowledge his eminence in hadith and fiqh.- Education and spiritual training :...

  • Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi
  • Anwar Shah Kashmiri
    Anwar Shah Kashmiri
    Maulana Anwar Shah Al Lolabi Kashmiri was an Indian scholar of Islam. During his career, he taught at a number of prominent institutions, including the Darul Uloom Deoband which contains a gate named at his honor...

  • Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
    Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari
    Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari , was an Indian Muslim scholar, religious and senior political leader from the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam's founding members...

     (founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam)
  • Muhammad Ilyas al-Kandhlawi
  • Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalawi
    Muhammad Yusuf Kandhalawi
    Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi was born on 25 Jumada al-Awwal 1335 H in Kandhla, India. He was born to a notable family of scholars and was exposed to an environment of piety at a young age. His memorized the Quran at the age of ten and continued to study Hadith and the Islamic Sciences...

  • Muhammad Zakariya al-Kandahlawi
  • Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
    Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
    Shabbir Ahmad Usmani was an Islamic scholar who supported the creation of an Islamic system of governance in Pakistan after its creation in 1947. He was a theologian, writer, orator, politician, and expert in tafsir and hadith...

  • Mufti Muhammad Shafi
    Mufti Muhammad Shafi
    Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi‘ was a Hanafi Islamic scholar from India. During his life he served as the grand Mufti of India and later Pakistan as well.-Biography:...

    , (First Grand Mufti
    Grand Mufti
    The title of Grand Mufti refers to the highest official of religious law in a Sunni or Ibadi Muslim country. The Grand Mufti issues legal opinions and edicts, fatwā, on interpretations of Islamic law for private clients or to assist judges in deciding cases...

     of Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

     )
  • Ubaidullah Sindhi
    Ubaidullah Sindhi
    Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi was a noted pan-Islamic leader a political activist of the Indian independence movement...

  • Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
    Syed Sulaiman Nadvi
    Allama Sayyed Sulaiman Nadvi was an eminent Indian and Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam...

  • Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
  • Maulana Sarfaraz Khan Safdar
    Maulana Sarfaraz Khan Safdar
    Allamah Imam Sarfaraz Khan Safdar, a graduate of Darul ‘Ulum Deoband, is a researcher, scholar, prolific writer, lecturer in Hadith and tafsir, and a leading master in Tasawwuf...

  • Inaam ul Hasan
  • Muhammad Rafi Usmani
    Muhammad Rafi Usmani
    Muhammad Rafi Uthmani is the renowned religious authority in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He is serving as the crrent Grand Mufti of Pakistan and President of Darul Uloom Karachi. He is the son of the late Mufti Muhammad Shafi Uthmani, the founder of Darul Ulum Karachi. He is recognized for...

    , Karachi (Current Grand Mufti
    Grand Mufti
    The title of Grand Mufti refers to the highest official of religious law in a Sunni or Ibadi Muslim country. The Grand Mufti issues legal opinions and edicts, fatwā, on interpretations of Islamic law for private clients or to assist judges in deciding cases...

     of Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

     )
  • Allama Sayyid Yousuf Jan Banoori
    Allama Sayyid Yousuf Jan Banoori
    Syed Yousuf Banoori, also known as Syed Yousaf Jan Banuri, was a Sheikh al Hadith from Pakistan, belonging to a Sayyid Pashtun family, who played a memorable role in the Khatim an-Nabuwwah movement of the 1970s in Pakistan.-Early life:...

  • Ashiq Ilahi
    Ashiq Ilahi
    Shaikh Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri was a prolific writer and eminent Muslim scholar of the South Asia. He was a disciple of Hadhrat Shaikh Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhlawi....

  • Muhammad Taqi Usmani
    Muhammad Taqi Usmani
    Muhammad Taqi Usmani is a Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan who was born in 1943. He served as a judge on the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1981 to 1982 and the Shari'a Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic...

    , Karachi
  • Yousuf Ludhianvi
    Yousuf Ludhianvi
    Maulana Muhammad Yousuf Ludhianvi was a Muslim scholar and Naib Amir of Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat. He was born in EsaPur, Ludhiana, Eastern Punjab, India and was martyred in Karachi, Pakistan....

  • Zar Wali Khan
    Zar Wali Khan
    Shaikh-Ul-Hadith-Wa-Tafseer Moulana Mufti Zar Wali Khan is a Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan. He is the founder of the Jamia Arabia Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan. He is an expert in the fields of Islamic Jurisprudence , hadith, tafsir and tasawwuf...

    , Karachi
  • Haji Abdul Wahab, (Amir of Tablighi Jamaat Pakistan)
  • Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
    Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema
    Abdul Latif Khalid Cheema is Secretary General of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Central convener of Muttahida Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Rabitta Committee. He is also the head of Darul Uloom Khatm-e-Nubuwwat in Chichawatni...

    , (head darul Uloom Khatm-e-Nubuwwat Chichawatni, Secretary General Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, Pakistan)
  • Tariq Jameel, Faisalabad
  • Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad
    Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad
    Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad is a Shaykh of Tasawwuf . Formally granted authorization in the Naqshbandi spiritual path , by Murshid-e-Alam Shaykh Ghulam Habib Naqshbandi , he retired from his position as an electrical engineer at the age of forty, to devote himself entirely to religious...

    , Pakistan

Political

  • Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
    Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
    Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind or is one of the leading Islamic organizations in India. It was founded in 1919 by Abdul Mohasim Sajjad, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ahmed Saeed Dehlvi, and Abdul Bari Firangi Mehli...

  • Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
    Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
    The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam is a political party in Pakistan. It formed a combined government in national elections in 2002 and 2008...

  • Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam
  • Ahrar Party (India)
    Ahrar Party (India)
    The Ahrar Party was a political party, founded in India in 1930. The group was composed of Indian Muslims disillusioned by the Khilafat Movement, which cleaved closer to the Congress Party. The party was based in Punjab. It gathered support from the urban lower-middle class...


Fatwas

One particular topic which has sparked criticism are fatwa
Fatwa
A fatwā in the Islamic faith is a juristic ruling concerning Islamic law issued by an Islamic scholar. In Sunni Islam any fatwā is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be considered by an individual as binding, depending on his or her relation to the scholar. The person who issues a fatwā...

s issued by Deobandi clerics regarding the behavior of women in the political and economic spheres. For example, in August, 2005, Deobandi clerics from the Darul Uloom Deoband
Darul Uloom Deoband
The Darul Uloom Deoband is an Islamic school in India where the Deobandi Islamic movement was started. It is located at Deoband, a town in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded in 1866 by several prominent Islamic scholars , headed by Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi...

 seminary, issued a fatwa stating that, while Muslim women may contest political elections, they must observe purdah
Purdah
Purdah or pardeh is the practice of concealing women from men. According to one definition:This takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes, and the requirement for women to cover their bodies and conceal their form....

 while doing so. In May 2010, clerics from the same seminary issued a fatwa stating that men and women cannot work together in public offices unless the women are properly clothed.

Cash for fatwas scandal

Following a sting operation, Star TV
Star TV
Star TV is a Turkish nationwide TV channel. It was owned by Cem Uzan until it was sold to Aydın Doğan for 306,5 million USD in 2005 by the Turkish Government.It is available online on JumpTV, the World's online television network.- History :...

 showed clerics belonging to Darul Uloom Deoband receiving cash for fatwas. The fatwas issued allegedly mandated that Muslims not use credit cards, double beds or camera-equipped cell phones; that Muslims not act in films, donate their organs or teach their children English; and that Muslim girls not wear jeans. One of the clerics caught on video, Mufti Habibur Rehman, was suspended from the fatwa department on Sunday after the television report, according to a Press Trust of India news agency report. Imran of Meerut's Shahi Jama Masjid apologised to the community admitting that he took money to release fatwa. He explained that the channel people kept him in the dark and urged for a fatwa for the sake of Islam. Regarding these fatwas, a member of the All-Muslim Personal Law Board stated that "Fatwas are issued on religious matters but the fatwa loses its importance once clerics start issuing it on mundane matters."

See also

  • Islam in India
    Islam in India
    Islam is the second-most practiced religion in the Republic of India after Hinduism, with more than 13.4% of the country's population ....

  • Islam in Pakistan
    Islam in Pakistan
    Islam is the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, which has a population of about 174,578,558. The overwhelming majority of the Pakistani people are Muslims while the remaining 3-5% are Christian, Hindu, and others. Pakistan has the second largest Muslim population in the world...

  • Islam in the United Kingdom
    Islam in the United Kingdom
    Islam has been present in the United Kingdom since its formation in 1707, though it was not legally recognised until the Trinitarian Act in 1812. Today it is the second largest religion in the country with estimates suggesting that by 2010 the total Muslim population had reached 2.869 million.The...

  • Islamic schools and branches
    Islamic schools and branches
    Muslims are basically divided in two major factions, Sunnis and Shias, that are further divided into various Schools of Jurisprudence and orders of Imamate. All other movements within such as Salafi, Modernists, the Mystical Sufi Orders, Deobandi and Barelvi are either Sunni or Shia or both...


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