Taliban FM Amir Khan Muttaqi visits Darul Uloom Deoband. What is the link of the Islamic Seminary with Afghanistan?

Foreign Minister Taliban, Amir Khan Muttaqi, is today at the Darul Uloom Deoband Seminary, a prominent Islamic seminar in the Saharanpur of Uttar Pradesh. Muttaqi is on a six-day visit to India. The administration at the Seminary said that Muttaqi will also address people at the Seminary today at 15:00. “He is a guest of the country. We must take care of him. In his program he will address the students and the general public,” Ashraf Usmani, media of Darul Uloom Deoband, told the news agency Ani. About the Islamic Seminary Darul Uloma Deoband is an international Islamic seminary founded in 1866 in Deoband, India, known for its extensive Islamic education, a significant influence and the compliance of the Orthodox Sunni -Islam and Hanafi School for Legal. It was founded on May 31, 1866, in the wake of the revolt of 1857, by the efforts of Sayyid Muhammad Abid and Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi. The seminary is highly regarded by many Taliban leaders. Several Taliban commanders and leaders studied in Darul Uloma Haqqania in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan, founded on the same lines as Darul Uloom Deoband. Deoband-Afghan binds Maulana Abdul Haq, who founded Darul Uloom Haqqania, studying and teaching in the Seminary in Deoband before the division in 1947. His son, Samiul-Haq, is referred to as the ‘Father of the Taliban’ because of Darul Uloom Haqqania’s role in the Grooming Taliban and Leaders. The relationship between Deoband and Afghanistan is an age-old. Even before the division, Deobandi teachers were, according to experts in Afghanistan, doing both political and religious matters. During the famous Silk Letter Movement (1913-1920), Deobandi Clerics tried to bring about alliances with the Ottoman Empire, Afghanistan and the German Empire to challenge British rule in India, according to Soumya Awasthi, Mede, Center for Safety, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation (Orf). Shared intellectual networks The Silk Letter movement was led by Deobandi Muslim teachers, including Maulana Mahmood Hasan and Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi, and aimed to overthrow British rule by overthrowing alliances with countries such as the Ottoman Empire, Empire Germany, Afghanistan and Russia. The relationship between Deoband and Afghanistan is deep and longtime. These links have left a lasting impression on Indo-Afghan religious and political consciousness, which bind the two societies through shared intellectual networks, Awasthi recently wrote. Afghan scholars were one of the earliest foreign disciples who studied at Deoband from the late nineteenth century, and returned to Kabul, Kandahar and Khost to establish Madrasas modeled on his curriculum and teaching style. These institutions helped to define the Deobandi -ethos by scholarship, Austerity, and wrote the Adherence to classical texts within the classic texts. Amir Khan Muttaqi’s India Visit India on Friday announced the upgrading of his technical mission in Kabul to the status of an embassy and promised to renew its developmental works in Afghanistan. Foreign Minister Jaishankar also appreciated the Taliban’s setup for sensitivity to New -Delhi’s safety issues. Jaishankar made the twin announcements during his extensive talks with Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, who ended up in New Delhi on Thursday during his first diplomatic visit to India. India withdrew its officials from its embassy in Kabul after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. In June 2022, India reinstated its diplomatic presence in the Afghan capital by deploying a ‘technical team’.