The movement founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be the promised Mahdi and Messiah, a claim the wider Muslim world does not accept.
The Ahmadiyya movement began in Qadian in 1889. Its placement is contested, and both positions stand recorded here: the movement identifies itself as Muslim and as Islam's revival, while the mainstream Sunni and Shia bodies hold that its founder's claims place it outside Islam, a judgment written into law in Pakistan in 1974.
A contested placement
Where this entity belongs is itself disputed, so both positions stand here with their sources rather than one being silently chosen.
Placed under Islam
The Ahmadiyya movement is a movement within Islam, founded as its revival.
Source: The movement's own self-identification, carried in its founding texts and its literature.
Placed under Islam
Ahmadi claims about its founder's prophetic status place the movement outside Islam.
Source: The position of the mainstream scholarly bodies, recorded in the 1974 constitutional amendment of Pakistan and in the rulings of the Muslim World League.
Ahmadiyya across the site
Sources
Primary
- Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya (1880-1884).
Secondary
- Yohanan Friedmann, Prophecy Continuous (1989).