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.... Using the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) town of Ahmadi as a case study, Alissa’s article offers new perspectives on the history of oil urbanism in Kuwait since 1946. It first traces the origins of Ahmadi’s architectural and urban development as shaped by KOC officials and by the company architects Wilson...

..., the board passed its recommendations to the Minister for the PERSECUTION OF THE AHMADIS Interior and the Minister for Law for confirmation. Where release was recommended the Prime Minister then requested Prisoners of Conscience...

...Teena Purohit Purohit's essay discusses the polemical writings of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) against Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), the founder of the Ahmadi movement. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's vision of Islam was in many ways similar to Iqbal's: both figures were modernist and promoted renewal...

...Saeed Sadiq Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1988 South Asia Bulletin, volume 8 (1988) Persecution of the Ahmedis Saeed Sadiq An Ahmadi boy of thirteen takes the train under the regime of General Ziaul Haq. To argue that the from Faisalabad...

...Sadia Saeed This article examines how a transnational religious movement that originated in British India, the Ahmadiyya movement, deployed the norm of religious freedom in the course of its expansion outside the British Empire. Ostracized by mainstream Muslims, Ahmadis used their position...

... that the Ahmadis skillfully managed charges of heresy by taking refuge in liberal imperialism’s commitments to religious freedom and through deterritorial challenges to colonial juris- diction. Teena Purohit questions entrenched theological critiques of the Ahmadis by contrasting the writings of Muhammad...

... for at present the naval supremacy goes to a Quilliam to Constantinople in 1908.65 country which has oil, since the Diesel engine inventions. The British Government is directly Ahmadi Missions in the Footsteps of the and openly helping oil syndicates. The oil wells Liverpool Institute...

..., they operated in tandem The contributions on Abadan in Iran, Ahmadi 14. Mandana Limbert, In the Time of Oil: Piety, 16. See Watts, “Petro-­Violence,” 202 – ​6. 19.  See Robert Vitalis, America’s Kingdom: Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town (Stan- Mythmaking...

... of political conditions is not only germane and consequential to the colonial moment. It also holds far-reaching implications in the post-1947 context. So, for instance, even after the creation of Pakistan, the underlying approach of Pakistani ‘ ulama ’ to the problem of categorizing the Ahmadis remained...

... that de- proceed to compel the state to enforce it. mand. Take the case of the Ahmadi Muslims in Paki- These religious parties in Pakistan were also stan. These followers of a nineteenth century claim- behind the passage of the so-called “Blasphemy ant of visions and inspirations...

... (alam meaning Middle pletely removed from the public sphere and con- “world and dunyaviah (“worldly” and “tem- tinued exerting some influence. For example, as poral and strong emphasis was placed on Hamid Ahmadi points out, they were the force aql...

... this process of reorientation. In 1982 it split over that preached hatred against dissenters in Islam. a dispute between two families for control of its In some countries its followers started persecut- affairs. The defeated faction comprised relatives ing Ahmadis, who...

... Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . Bird James . “ Analysis of the Mirat-i-Ahmadi , A Political and Statistical History of the Province of Gujarat .” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1 , no. 1...

..., and movement. A self-critical analysis of the strategy heroic attempts by women simply not to sink any of the One Million Signatures campaign writ- deeper, makes one less sanguine in terms of a ten by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, one of its future prognosis. This leads me...

..., Tahereh Aghdasifar, Anjali Arondekar, and Bishnupriya Ghosh. References Ahmadi Wali . “The Institution of Persian Literature and the Genealogy of Bahar's ‘Stylistics.’ ” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 31 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 141 – 52 . Ali Zulfikar . Persian Tadkira...

... Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East • 33:1 • 2013 Figure 3. Haphazard urban development of the 1950s. Courtesy of Kuwait Oil Company archives, Ahmadi, Kuwait in place of the town...

... by secu- was launched on 6 March 2006 to provide ad- lar feminists. The two people behind the initial ditional space for regular and quicker interven- effort were Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, direc- tions. Ahmadi Khorasani, in the first posting, tor...

... of the Shaikh’s association with Ahmadi- evidenced by the presence of had Subhani of Cal- yas. His diatribes against the Shaikh were, however, cutta’s Jama Mosque in Srinagar on the eve of the ~nderstandableThe Shaikh’s growing popularity formation of the Reading Room Party. He is reported marked...

... Guerrilla Warfare,” 13 clearly seeing the text, and by extension the group itself, not as mere emulators of guerrilla tactics but also producers of knowledge that was meant to be read and disseminated beyond Iran's borders. In the fall of 1973, in a clandestine team house in Tehran, Marziyeh Ahmadi...

..., Ta z kirat al-Ṭarīq , 216 . 51. Tareen, Defending Muhammad . 52. Dihlawi, Fatāwa-yi ‘Azīzī , 1:17 . 53. ‘Ali, Maḵẖzan-i Aḥmadī , 95 . 54. Jalal, Partisans of Allah , 80–81 . 55. E.g., Haykel, Revival and Reform . 56. Mihr, Saiyid Aḥmad , 220...