In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic.
Its specter, however, continues.
Almost two hundred years separate the beginnings of this polemic from the present.
The Barelvī and Deobandī groups are two normative orientations/reform movements with beginnings in colonial South Asia.
In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running, complex, and contentious dispute in modern Islam: the Barelvī-Deobandī polemic