Among Kerala’s Muslims, Khan says, sectarian differences remain acute–the ‘Sunnis’, followers of local Sufi traditions and associated with the Shafi school of jurisprudence; the Jamaat-e Islami, a puritanical Islamist formation; and the Nadwat ul-Mujahidin, a vociferous critic of a host of popular customs associated with the ‘Sunnis’ and many Hindu followers of the Sufis, which it brands as ‘un-Islamic’
Raza Rumi has a review of Dominique-Sila Khan’s Sacred Kerala—A Spiritual Journey.
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