From Sufism To Ahmadiyya

Author : Adil Hussain Khan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015294
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Sufism to Ahmadiyya written by Adil Hussain Khan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time. The controversial movement originated in rural India in the latter part of the 19th century and is best known for challenging current conceptions of Islamic orthodoxy. Despite missionary success and expansion throughout the world, particularly in Western Europe, North America, and parts of Africa, Ahmadis have effectively been banned from Pakistan. Adil Hussain Khan traces the origins of Ahmadi Islam from a small Sufi-style brotherhood to a major transnational organization, which many Muslims believe to be beyond the pale of Islam.

Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sons written by Mark J. Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first history of the Rashīdi Aḥmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders. In his study of one widespread Sufi order over two centuries and three continents, the author identifies a repeating cycle in which a section of an order rises under a great shaykh, splits, and stabilizes. Though each great shaykh seems to remake the order with little reference to what has gone before, there are in fact two constants through all cycles: the written literature of the order, and the limiting effect on even the greatest shaykhs of their followers' expectations.

Author : Shivan Mahendrarajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108879497
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sufi Saint of Jam written by Shivan Mahendrarajah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunni saint cult and shrine of Ahmad-i Jam has endured for 900 years. The shrine and its Sufi shaykhs secured patronage from Mongols, Kartids, Tamerlane, and Timurids. The cult and shrine-complex started sliding into decline when Iran's shahs took the Shiʿi path in 1501, but are today enjoying a renaissance under the (Shiʿi) Islamic Republic of Iran. The shrine's eclectic architectural ensemble has been renovated with private and public funds, and expertise from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization. Two seminaries (madrasa) that teach Sunni curricula to males and females were added. Sunni and Shiʿi pilgrims visit to venerate their saint. Jami mystics still practice ʿirfan ('gnosticism'). Analyzed are Ahmad-i Jam's biography and hagiography; marketing to sultans of Ahmad as the 'Guardian of Kings'; history and politics of the shrine's catchment area; acquisition of patronage by shrine and shaykhs; Sufi doctrines and practices of Jami mystics, including its Timurid-era Naqshbandi Sufis.

Author : Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 185372744X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Love to the Muslims of the World written by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad and published by Islam International Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2004-01-11 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This message was written on the occasion of an international games even in Baku, Azerbaijan to which the Muslim Tigers Ahmadiyya Hockey team had been officially invited by the Azerbaijan Council of the Unionwide Voluntary Trade Union Sports Federation. This invitation followed a recommendation of Azineftechim team from Baku that had played against the MTA Hockey club when it toured England in April 1990. Then the message was translated into Russian and published. Originally addressed to the people of Azerbaijan and those of the former USSR, this message, with its universal import, is equally meant for peoples of all countries and religions.

Author : John H. Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253029331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast written by John H. Hanson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a global movement with more than half a million Ghanaian members, runs an extensive network of English-language schools and medical facilities in Ghana today. Founded in South Asia in 1889, the Ahmadiyya arrived in Ghana when a small coastal community invited an Ahmadiyya missionary to visit in 1921. Why did this invitation arise and how did the Ahmadiyya become such a vibrant religious community? John H. Hanson places the early history of the Ahmadiyya into the religious and cultural transformations of the British Gold Coast (colonial Ghana). Beginning with accounts of the visions of the African Methodist Binyameen Sam, Hanson reveals how Sam established a Muslim community in a coastal context dominated by indigenous expressions and Christian missions. Hanson also illuminates the Islamic networks that connected this small Muslim community through London to British India. African Ahmadi Muslims, working with a few South Asian Ahmadiyya missionaries, spread the Ahmadiyya's theological message and educational ethos with zeal and effectiveness. This is a global story of religious engagement, modernity, and cultural transformations arising at the dawn of independence.

Author : Nicholas H. A. Evans
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715704
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far from the Caliph's Gaze written by Nicholas H. A. Evans and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority—people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: What evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith? In Far from the Caliph's Gaze Nicholas H. A. Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern India. Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world. Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader—the caliph—since partition, and the believers who live there now and act as its guardians must confront daily the reality of this separation even while attempting to make their Muslimness verifiable. By exploring the centrality of this separation to the ethics of everyday life in Qadian, Far from the Caliph's Gaze presents a new model for the academic study of religious doubt, one that is not premised on a concept of belief but instead captures the richness with which people might experience problematic relationships to truth.

Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781433705892
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sons written by Mark J. Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the Rashidi Ahmadiyya argues for a new explanation of the great Sufi revival of the eighteenth century, and also defines a new paradigm of development and change in Sufi orders.

Author : Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848800754
Total Pages : 1065 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haqiqatul-Wahi written by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and published by Islam International Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the Promised Messiah, on whom be peace, discusses the philosophy of divine revelation, the three categories of people who claim to receive revelation, and the distinction of the truthful from the false. He then establishes his truthfulness by documenting over 200 Signs, including the fulfillment of prophecies made by the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, other men of God, earlier scriptures, and his own revelations spanning over twenty-five years. The author cites numerous examples of his enemies who publicly predicted his downfall and demise, only to become the very victims of their own prophecies. God, however, protected him against every assault, while continuously reassuring him of His promise to bless his Community—a promise which continues to bear the seal and testimony of history. The author also appeals to the followers of different faiths to read this book cover to cover to appreciate and accept this evidence as proof that God is One and the Holy Prophet Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and that he is the Promised Messiah raised to unite humanity under the banner of Islam.

Author : Zahid Aziz
Publisher : A.A.I.I.L. (U.K.)
ISBN 13 : 1906109036
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Survey of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement written by Zahid Aziz and published by A.A.I.I.L. (U.K.). This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad
Publisher : Islam International Publications Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848809085
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress written by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Deen Mahmood Ahmad and published by Islam International Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ahmadiyya movement in Islam, founded in 1889 by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad(as)—the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi—is one of the most powerful and dynamic religious forces in the world today. The present collection of speeches and essays, gives historical context and insight into the adversity and opposition faced by the community in its nascent years, while articulating the promise of a glorious future in which Ahmadiyyat will triumph over the world’s religions. It also addresses questions regarding certain fundamental points of belief such as the purpose of the advent of the Promised Messiah and loyalty to khilafat. Ahmadiyyat: Destiny and Progress is a lively and essential read for anyone interested in the subject.