Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ulama are dynamic not static

This is an amazing work by Zaman on the role of the Ulama, or Muslim religious scholars, in society today. Zaman takes the examples of the Deobandi ulama, which hailed from the religious seminary in Deoband, India, as a case in point to demonstrate his thesis. The ulama are shown to be cognizant of modern problems, not simply confined to their madrassas and preaching fundamentalism, as they are usually depicted. Indeed, as the title indicates, the Ulama play such a large role in Muslim societies that they are a major factor in the evolution of any of these societies. Zaman eventually discusses the issue of ulama and their role in extremism, as any good work should. But Zaman demonstrates that the ulama themselves are not a single, united group, and many have vastly different ideologies.