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'''Militant Islam''' is an approach to [[Islam]] that holds that the [[religion]] and its followers must be aggressively fought for on a political and religious level. Just as militant [[Muslim]]s are but a segment of Islam, so too are supporters of violence and [[terrorism]] only a segment of all militant Muslims. Designation of people as practitioners of militant Islam is often highly contentious. Critics of such designation often ascribe bias an(contracted; show full)[Sayed Ahmad Khan]], who advocated the reform and modernization of Islam. Named after the town of [[Deoband]], where it originated, the movement was built around Islamic schools (principally [[Darul Uloom]]) and taught an interpretation of Islam that encouraged the subsurvience of women, discouraged the use of many forms of technology and entertainment, and believed that only "revealed" or God-inspired knowledge (rather than human knowledge) should be followed.

Though the Deobandi philosophy is 
highly 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 ''madarassas''.

This term is misleading, as it can imply anything from an equivalent of an American [[Bible college]] to an outright terrorist training camp.  The term ''taliban,'', meaning "student", is just as misleading," can be equally misleading in certain circumstances.

===Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi===
[[Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi]] was an important early twentieth-century figure in India, then, after independence from Britain, in [[Pakistan]]. Strongly influenced by Deobandi ideology, he advocated the creation of an Islamic state governed by [[sharia]], Islamic law, as interpreted by [[Shura]] councils.  Maududi founded the [[Jamaat-e-Islami]] in 1941 and remained at its head until 1972.  His extremely influential book, "[[Towards Understanding Islam]]" ([[Risalat (contracted; show full)*[[Islam as a political movement]]
*[[List of Islamic terms in Arabic]]
*[[Jihad]]
*[[Qal3ah]], infamous for being the forums where announcements and discussions by Islamic extremists have taken place

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