The Taliban's ideology has distant links to India. Scholars say Afghanistan's new leaders might listen to clerics in the birthplace of Deobandi Islam, though the clerics deny ties with the Taliban.

(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 Indian Deobandi [version] is classical, whereas the one in Pakistan and Afghanistan is neo-Deobandi," explains Soumya Awasthi, a security expert at the Vivekananda International Foundation, a ...

A Deobandi cleric, he was a key figure in the Harkat-ul-Islam movement before moving to Khyber district in 2004. His radical views quickly attracted followers, ...

The Deobandi Movement The Islamic revivalist movement within Sunni Islam called Deobandi was formed in 1866 around the Darul Uloom Islamic seminary in the town of Deoband, Uttar Pradesh.

Leaders of 21 politico-religious parties of the Deobandi school of thought -- including two factions of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Samiul Haq, Ahle Sunnat ...

It was not surprising that during the Afghan jihad in the 1980s, Deobandi seminaries on both sides of the Durand Line, as many scholars have pointed out, were the prime target of Saudi funding and ...

The Taliban's justification for its hard-line Islamic system is rooted in the 19th-century Deobandi movement of British Colonial India -- a prominent strain among Islamists in modern-day Pakistan ...

This webpage addresses a query regarding the permissibility of praying at a Deobandi masjid in the U.K. when access to a preferred masjid is limited due to time constraints. The respondent clarifies ...

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