[rusculture]

Assalamu alaikum,

I think perhaps some sub continent folks forget that there are other hanafis in the world aside from deobandis and barvelis. The remnants of the ottoman empire are at least nominally hanafi, and along with it, there are branches of the naqshbandi tariqa. Of course, not all ottoman naqshbandi tariqas are like the haqqanis. There are probably plenty who are more traditional in their view.

I conversed with a secular/liberal bosnian hanafi online a few years back, and was quite surprised at the lax view she portrayed of what hanafis are in eastern europe. I was surprised at how she identified herself as a hanafi muslim, and went on and on about how liberal hanafis were. I was like umm, let me tell you about deobandis then...

One thing I would like to know more about, if I ever can find english language resources on the subject, is the development of the hanafi madhab in the ottoman empire, and how it differs from the hanafi madhab in the subcontinent.