British Media Attacks Deoband and Tabligh - Past and Present
Indigo Jo writes of the smearing of the efforts of Tabligh and their attempted character assassination of Shaikh Riyadh-ul-Haq.
Shaikh Riyadh, along with other Deobandi scholars, have been very much active in combating more extreme ideologies and defending traditional Islam against both modernism and Wahhabism - in fact, they were doing so decades before Shaikh Nuh Keller or Hamza Yusuf came on the scene in the 1990s. I personally heard a version of the speech recorded as The Legacy of Abdullah bin Mas’ud, a defence of the mainstream Hanafi school of Islamic law.
Pearls of the Elders has been providing a very thorough, detailed history of the Deobandi institution, with special emphasis on it’s influence on Indian history and it’s continued legacy. The latest segment describes the British counter efforts, illustrating that little has changed over the years.
The British tried hard to persuade Indians to study in schools established by the government by opening institutions of Oriental learning so that they might imbibe Western modes of thought and sensibility while remaining Indian only in appearance.
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