Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Yohanan Friedmann, “The Attitude 

of the Jamiyyat-i Ulama-i Hind to the Indian National 

Movement and the Establishment of Pakistan.” Asian 

and African Studies 7 (1971): 157–183; Muhammad 

Qasim Zaman, The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Cus-

todians of Change (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University 

Press, 2002).

Jamiyyat al-Ulama-i Islam

 

(Association of 

the Ulama of Islam, also spelled Jamiyatul 

Ulama-i Islam, acronym: JUI)

The JUI broke off from the Jamiyyat al-Ulama-i 

Hind (JUH), an association of d

eobandi

 

Ulama

,

in 1945 over the JUH’s support for the Hindu-

dominated Indian National Congress and their 

opposition to the call for the creation of a 

separate Muslim state, p

akistan

. There are cur-

rently Pakistani and Bangladeshi branches of this