... of Chinese Muslim intellectuals was the Ahmadiyya of India, which was considered “heterodox” by the majority of “orthodox” Muslims. This article explores how and why these prominent Chinese Muslims were attracted to the Ahmadiyya movement. It argues that Ahmadiyya, despite its marginal nature, offered...

... that provoked public rioting. These practices, commonly associated with a religious minority known as the Ahmadiyya (less than 1 percent of Pakistan's population), were not treated as peaceful practices. Since the early to mid-1970s, these otherwise peaceful practices were treated as a source of public disorder...

... communities of Punjab. In another essay on Punjab, Avril Powell examines the sermons, tracts, letters, and biographical material of the Ahmadiyya movement to probe the socialization of women in this movement. Powell seeks to contextualize the high literacy of women in a movement that reinforced conventional...

... frontier jihad in the early nineteenth century, is given a prominent place in the DNB, but his more important and much more seminal teacher and general, Sayyid Ahmad Rae Barelvi, cannot be found under any variant spelling or alias. Readers may find Bashir-uddin, the first Caliph of the Ahmadiyya, in his...

... and Australia, with a rich merchant, Khawajah Muhammad Bux—popularly known as “Sindbad of Lahore.” In chapter 4, we are back in the Australian outback on the first camel train with Ghans. And in the next chapter, Khatun examines the varieties of Islam in the Australian outback, especially Ahmadiyya, which took...

..., locate their traditions as emergent from particular historical and postcolonial contexts, rooted in tensions of modernity. Lauren Drover's chapter on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat of Pakistan demonstrates how the Ahmaddiya have adapted earlier forms of South Asian Islam but were ultimately reframed...

... Arabia, has “transformed Islamic communities across the region at the expense of tolerance” (p. 186). Under this current, the minority Shi'a and Ahmadiyya Muslims are ostracized by the dominant Sunni Muslims. Second, the advent of internet and social media provided platforms for “diversity-deniers” (p...

... transformed public sphere, respectively. Finally, complementing Bigelow's hopeful study of Sufi shrines, the volume concludes with two darker, similarly contemporary pieces. Simona Sawhney's provocative juxtaposition of Bhagat Singh and today's Pakistani anti-Ahmadiyya terrorists argues for a dynamic “web...

... more solidity. The section on the Ahmadiyya is slightly out of focus in the earlier part where it is based largely on the writings of Muhammad 'All of the dissident Lahori group. The section on Mawdudl is well written and informative and partly based on the author's personal correspondence with him...

... and Hindu processions clashed, and generalizes about such conflicts but neglects Shi'a and Sunni riots over these same Muharrum processions. The Ahmadiyya sect, which denies a significant part of the Muslim creed, is taken generally as Muslim, again without regard to the longstanding conflict between its...

... the section dealing with the inter-action between early British rule and Indian Islam has more solidity. The section on the Ahmadiyya is slightly out of focus in the earlier part where it is based largely on the writings of Muhammad 'All of the dissident Lahori group. The section on Mawdudl is well written...

... orm­ers were in­spired by and interpreted the theo­ lo­ gy of the In­dian Ahmadiyya movem­ ent to art­icu­ l­ate a syn­the­sis of mo­der­nity and Isl­am in the con­text of the New Culture Movement. Drawing on the transn­ at­ional the­ol­og­ies of mod­erni­zed Isl­am as an al­tern­ a­tive...

... quelques problems du Pakistan. Orient (Paris) no. 20 (1961), 77-89. STEPHENS, IAN. The image of Pakistan. Listener 65 (Feb. 9, 1961), 249-251. TAUSSIG, H. C. Pakistan at a landmark. EW 15 (Nov. 1961), 11-12. VUJICA, STANKO M. The Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. EW 15 (Dec. 1961), 16-20. ZBAVITEL, DUSAN. Za...

...), 11-12. VUJICA, STANKO M. The Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. EW 15 (Dec. 1961), 16-20. ZBAVITEL, DUSAN. Za pisnickou po Vychodnim Pakistanu. Novy orient 16 cislo 3 (1961), 66-67. Articles AHMAD, KAZI S. Reclamation of waterlogged and saline lands in West Pakistan. PGR 16 (Jan. 1961), 1-18. AHMAD, KAZI S...

... ; and, Walters H. A. , The Ahmadiya Movement ( London : Humphrey Milford , 1918 ) . A self-view is available in Ahmad Hazrat Bas Hir-ud-din Mahmud , The Ahmadiyya Movement ( Lahore : Civil and Military Gazette Press , 1924 ) and a statement of basic Ahmadiya beliefs is given in Ahmad...

... of what at the time was a diverse, amorphous Hinduism. Over the next forty years, the proselytizing efforts of Christian missionaries transformed the act of conversion into a concerted competition among the Arya Samaj, the Singh Sabha, Sunni Anjumans, and the Ahmadiyya movement (Harding 2008 ; Jones...

... identity borders that led to an increasingly exclusionary discourse within Pakistan, causing the disenfranchisement of the Ahmadiyya, growing clashes against the Shia, and the attempt to “objectivize” Islam, as became evident when the Supreme Court compared it in 1993 to a product covered by copyright laws...