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Militant Islam
''Rewrite of the [[Islamism]] article''

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''This page and [[Islam as a political movement]] were proposed (''by whom?'') as a replacement for [[Islamism]] which is [[NPOV dispute|disputed]].  This page was listed on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|Votes for deletion]] on September 18 2003 but not deleted. See [[Talk:Militant Islam/Delete]] for the discussion. This and [[Islamism]] has been protected, by those who advocate the POV of [[Islamism]].  Se(contracted; show full)

Though the Deobandi philosophy is puritanical and wishes to remove non-Muslim (i.e., Hindu or Western) influence from Muslim societies, it was not especially violent or [[
Proselytization|proselytising]], confining its activity mostly to the establishment of ''[[madarassa]]s'', or Muslim religious schools. 

These schools now number in the tens of thousands across Asia, mostly in Pakistan and India, and remain the core of the Deobandi movement. They are a major sector of Muslims in the region (the followers of [[Sayed Ahmad Khan]] being a significant minority). The [[Taliban]] movement in Afghanistan was a product of the Deobandi philosophy and the ''madarassa(contracted; show full)== See also ==

*[[list of Islamic terms in Arabic]]
*[[jihad]]

== Sources ==

*[[G. H. Jansen]], ''Militant Islam'', [[1980]].