The Formation of Muslim Reform Movements as a Response to Minoritization

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyzes the major Muslim reformist groups formed in colonial India through the lens of minoritization. Muslims had ruled India for centuries before the coming of the British. The loss of political power had a profound effect on the Indian Muslim sense of belonging, as well as their religious confidence. The loss of power engendered a variety of powerful emotions—sorrow, humiliation, anxiety—which served to motivate the developing Muslim leadership to respond actively and creatively toward preservation of the Muslim community. While some created new pathways of religious interpretation that bolstered a political agenda, others (primarily the ʿulamāʾ), worked to redirect the Muslim sense of loss toward greater attachment to God instead of homeland. In the end, the religious reformist agendas of groups like the modernists, Deobandis, and Barelwis provided viable pathways to maintain religious practice and belief among the minoritized Muslim population of colonial India, serving as inspiration for how the South Asian Muslim diaspora would continue the practice of Islam in their own minoritized contexts.
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Authors Fareeha Khan
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.69
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.69
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