Muhammadjan Hindustani (born in 1892 in Chorbogh, Tajikistan) was an Islamist teacher in Uzbekistan during the

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. He was a teacher of Abduvali qori Mirzayev, who taught Tahir Yuldash and Juma Namangani. Yuldash and Namangani both became leaders of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Sayid Abdullah Nuri and Muhammad Sharif Himmatzoda, who were leaders of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan were also students of Hindustani's. Hindustani was arrested by the Soviets, and he died in prison. During the early 1970s, Hindustani founded a clandestine madrassa in

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. It was influenced by the ideology of

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, as well as the

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movement of

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. (Deobandi Islam was also an ideological influence for the

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movement.) Hindustani considered some of his students "Wahhabist" — Hindustani used the term Wahhabist for anyone who introduces non-traditional interpretations of the

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. He may denounced Ziyaudin Bobokhon as a Wahhabist for issuing ''fatwas'' that differed from traditional

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interpretations; Bobokhon responded by removing Hindustani from the Council of

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of SADUM. Some scholars have used Wahhabist in this sense to describe the

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in the

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and

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who diverged from the orthodox traditions of Hanafi Islam. One of these students, Rahmatullah Alloma from Kokand,

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died in an automobile accident in 1981. Alloma and Abduvali Qori had both studied for six months under Hakimjan-Qori Marghiloni, who was considered the father of neo-Wahhabism by Hanafi scholars in the Ferghana Valley before studying under Hindustani for another year and a half.

References

{{reflist 1892 births Terrorism in Uzbekistan Islam in Uzbekistan Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Year of death missing