This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and terrorism. This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The book addresses this gap. It also covers the Deobandi diaspora in the West and other countries and the role of its radical elements in transnational incidents of violence and terrorism. The specific identification of the radical Deobandi and Salafi identity of militants is useful to isolate them from the majority of peaceful Sunni and Shia Muslims. Such identification provides direction to governmental resources so they focus on those outfits, mosques, madrassas, charities, media and social medial channels that are associated with these ideologies. This book comes along at a time when there is a dire need for alternative and contextual discourses on terrorism.

Introduction.- 1 Contextualising the ascendancy of the Deobandis in Pakistan.- 2 Historical Roots of Deobandi Version of Jihadism: Implications for Violence in Pakistan.- 3 History of militancy in Islam: From Khawarij to Takfiri Deobandism.- 4 Ideological sources of transnational Islamist terrorism.- 5 Discourses of hate in Deobandi curricula, fatwas and books.- 6 Blasphemy, Takfeer, Jihad and Khilafat.- 7 Deobandi roots of extremist violence in Pakistan.- 8 Role of Deobandi extremism in global Salafi Wahabi terrorism.- 9 Could Pakistan have remained pluralistic?.- 10 Media analysis.- 11 Violence against Sunni Sufis and Barelvis.- 12 Violence against Shias; Shia genocide.- 13 Violence against Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and other communities.- 14 Violence against Ahmadis.- 15 Deobandi militancy in Bangladesh.- 16 Fighting The Takfiris: Pan Islamic Mobilization. Against Militant Anti-Shia Rhetoric in the USA.- 17 Fanning the Flames: Deobandi Influence within British Islamism.- 18 Intersectionality.- 19 Counter-terrorism and Reform