Metcalf Barbara D. Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars (‘ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.Contents
List of Maps
List of Illlustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Pattern of Islamic Reform
I. The Ulama in Transition: The Eighteenth Century
II. The Ulama in Transition: The Early Nineteenth Century
III. The Madrasah at Deoband
IV. The Style of Religious Leadershi, I: Muftis and Shaikhs
V. The Style of Religious Leadershi, II: Writers and Debaters
VI. The Social Milieu of Deobandi Ulama
VII. Alternative Tendencies within Sunni Islam: The Ahl-i Hadis and Barelwis
VIII. Further Alternatives: Aligarh and Nadwah
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index