"Since the beginning of Muslim rule in India, the ulama had remained permanently allied to an elite north Indian Muslim culture, hence the orthodox forms of Islam had not penetrated deep into the daily lives of the Muslim masses, who continued to cherish the customs and practices they had inherited from their Hindu past. Since the nineteenth century Mujahideen movement of Sayyid Alimad Shaheed (1786-1831) and the Faraizi movement of Haji Shariatullah, the Tabligh movement is the most important attempt to bridge the gap between orthodox Islam and the popular syncretic religious practices that are prevalent among the Muslim masses…"
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IslamTablighi JamaatIslamic new religious movementsInternational Islamic organizationsIslamic organisations based in India
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‘Islamic Fundamentalism in South Asia: The Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tablighi Jamaat of South Asia’, by Mumtaz Ahmad in Fundamentalisms Observed edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby, Chicago, 1991, p.511-524, also quoted in Time for stock taking, whither Sangh Parivar? Edited by Goel, S. R. (1997)
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