The Deobandi movement was founded at the Darul Uloom Deoband seminary in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1867, in the aftermath of the failed 1857 Mutiny against British rule. The founders — Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi — sought to preserve traditional Islamic scholarship in a colonial context by creating a network of madrasas on the model of the Western university, with paid teachers, systematic curricula, and examinations. Deobandi theology is Hanafi in law, Maturidi in theology, and generally sympathetic to certain forms of Sufism (especially the Chishti and Naqshbandi orders) while opposing practices it considers innovations. The Deobandi network became one of the most extensive Islamic educational systems in the world, with tens of thousands of affiliated madrasas across South Asia. Taliban ideology in Afghanistan and Pakistan emerges from the Deobandi tradition.