Listen "The Islamists You’ve Never Heard Of - with Kamran Bohkari and Rasha Elass"
Episode Synopsis
Kamran Bokhari is a foreign policy specialist and director of analytical development at the New Lines Institute. In this episode, he joins host Rasha Elass to talk about his essay in New Lines Magazine on Deobandism, a major fundamentalist Islamic movement with influence across South Asia and beyond. They discuss how it emerged from one of the Sunni tradition’s most liberal schools of jurisprudence - and why so few in the West have heard of it.
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