Editing Deobandi movement (section)

=== Theology ===
Deobandis follow the [[Maturidi]] school of [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[Islamic theology]].<ref name="Spevack 2014 49"/><ref>David Emmanuel Singh, Islamization in Modern South Asia: Deobandi Reform and the Gujjar Response, p 167.</ref><ref name="deoband.org">{{cite web |author=ibnummabd on 19 February 2009 at 6:04 pm |url=http://www.deoband.org/about-2/ |title=About |publisher=Deoband.org |date=2009-02-19 |access-date=29 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060851/http://www.deoband.org/about-2/ |archive-date=21 September 2013}}</ref> Their schools teach a short text on beliefs known as ''[[al-'Aqa'id al-Nasafiyya]]'' by the Hanafi-Maturidi scholar [[Najm al-Din 'Umar al-Nasafi]].<ref name="Bruinessen, Stefano Allievi p 100">Martin van Bruinessen, Stefano Allievi, Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and Dissemination in Western Europe, p 100. {{ISBN|1136932860}}</ref>

The official Deobandi book, ''[[al-Muhannad 'ala al-Mufannad]]'' (The Sword on the Disproved), also known as: ''al-Tasdiqat li-Daf' al-Talbisat'' (Endorsements Repelling Deceits), is a work that summarizes the beliefs generally held by the Deobandis. It was authored by [[Khalil Ahmad al-Saharanpuri]] (d. 1346/1927) in order to defend and remit the Deobandis from the charge of [[kufr]] (unbelief or blasphemy) levied against them by their opponents.<ref>{{cite book|author=Brannon D. Ingram|title=Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkFyDwAAQBAJ|date=2018|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=9780520970137|page=254}}</ref>

According to Brannon D. Ingram, Deobandis differ from Barelvis on three theological positions.<ref name="kizb3">{{citation |last1=Ingram |first1=Brannon D. |title=Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam |pages=7, 64, 100, 241 |year=2018 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOVvDwAAQBAJ&q=Imkan-i+Kizb |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520298002}}</ref> Gangohi stated that God has the ability to lie.<ref name="rag2">{{citation |last1=Ingram |first1=Brannon D. |title=Sufis, Scholars and Scapegoats: Rashid Ahmad Gangohi(d. 1905) and the Deobandi Critique of Sufism |journal=The Muslim World |volume=99 |issue=3 |page=484 |year=2009 |url=https://www.academia.edu/282790 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |doi=10.1111/j.1478-1913.2009.01281.x}}</ref> This doctrine is called ''Imkan-i Kizb''.<ref name="kizb3" /><ref name="rag2" /> According to this doctrine, because God is omnipotent, God is capable of lying.<ref name="kizb3" /> Gangohi also supported the doctrine that God has the ability to make additional prophets after Muhammad (''Imkan-i Nazir'') and other prophets equal to Muhammad.<ref name="kizb3" /><ref name="rag2" /> Gangohi clarifies that although God has the ability to make prophets on "par" with Muhammad, he "would never do so".<ref name="kizb3" />