Deobandi
Adjective
Meaning
Deobandi (comparative more Deobandi, superlative most Deobandi)
Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.
Examples
IS, al-Qaida, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad claim to be practitioners Deobandi: Inspired by scholar Shah Waliullah Dehlawi and native to Indian subcontinent.
Mufti Mahmud, a Deobandi scholar and head of the latter party, was elected as chief minister.
The Taliban were spawned by the thousands of madrasahs the Deobandi movement established for impoverished Afghan refugees and supported by governmental and religious groups in neighboring Pakistan.