Edna Fernandes writes about a madrassa in northern India founded in the wake of the Indian Mutiny. Darul Uloom is the first school of Deobandi Islam and its influence has spread into Pakistan and Afghanistan, among the Taliban and followers of Osama bin Laden. See article in History Today.
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While reading Ahmed Akhbar’s Journey into Islam, on the way back from the Western US, a Sikh, Muslim, & Hindu were on the plain coming here to the “bible-belt” to visit Asbury college rt. up the way from this city of Lexington, where I reside. I just read the words suhl-i-kul…& the Pilgrimsbook of Gere’s came to mind: no Creator No Meaning heartOPen, lightMIND step