Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam" (U California Press, 2018)

Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast · Jan 30, 2019 · 52m

Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (University of California Press, 2018) by Brannon D. Ingram is a timely study of the Deoband movement from its inception in India to its transnational contemporary context in South Africa. Through careful analysis of historical textual discourses, Ingram carefully guides his readers through important polemics that manifested amongst the Deoband ‘ulama and its implications for Muslim publics and their performance of a “traditional” Islam. The study, then, goes onto highlight why and how the Deoband movement’s relationship to Sufism has…