Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adherent of an Islamic movement originating in India and seeking to revive the practices and theological and legal interpretations of early Islam.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We are now in the process of witnessing how Islamist movements such as Deobandi, Wahhabism, Salafism and The Muslim Brotherhood directly influenced by Italian fascism and the French fascist Alexis Carrel are protected by the "cultural" argument: they are not in fact political programmes, but in reality "cultures" which eo ipso cannot be criticised.
Archive 2009-01-11 William Harryman 2009
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No other sect has damaged Islam or for that sake Pakistan as much hardliner 'Deobandi's' has divided the society and breed intolerance.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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No other sect has damaged Islam or for that sake Pakistan as much hardliner 'Deobandi's' has divided the society and breed intolerance.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
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For this reason, it would be a true shame in my eyes if popular and critical analyses of this, and other such, events also replicated a typology-based worldview, with ideological labels like "Deobandi" or "Barelvi" or "Wahhabi - not actual people - at their core.
Informed Comment 2009
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The U. S.-led coalition must realize these aforesaid powerbrokers would not object to rolling women's rights and personal freedoms back to the 7th century per the Taliban's perverted neo-Deobandi dogma.
Michael Hughes: No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan Michael Hughes 2010
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The U. S.-led coalition must realize these aforesaid powerbrokers would not object to rolling women's rights and personal freedoms back to the 7th century per the Taliban's perverted neo-Deobandi dogma.
Michael Hughes: No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan Michael Hughes 2010
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Of the 27 or so Muslim seminaries or dar ul uloom in Britain, 25 come from the austere, Deobandi tradition – the preferred school of the Taleban.
Young British Muslims at the mercy of extremists because of out-of-touch Imams 2009
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The U. S.-led coalition must realize these aforesaid powerbrokers would not object to rolling women's rights and personal freedoms back to the 7th century per the Taliban's perverted neo-Deobandi dogma.
Michael Hughes: No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan Michael Hughes 2010
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Of the 27 Muslim seminaries in Britain, 25 come from the hardline Deobandi tradition, the preferred school of the Taliban.
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The U. S.-led coalition must realize these aforesaid powerbrokers would not object to rolling women's rights and personal freedoms back to the 7th century per the Taliban's perverted neo-Deobandi creed.
Michael Hughes: No Peace without Justice and Equality in Afghanistan Michael Hughes 2010
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