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Ahmadis and Muslim identity in Diaspora, A short study of anti-Ahmadi opposition in britain
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Éditions L'Harmattan
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L'Iran en transition
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Ahmadis and Muslim identity in Diaspora

A short study of anti-Ahmadi opposition in britain

Éditions L'Harmattan

L'Iran en transition

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In the introduction to his book, Yohannan Friedmann wrote that the Ahmadiyya
has been one of the “most active and controversial movements within modern
Islam”. Indeed, the Muslimness of the Ahmadis has been debated ever since the
inception of the movement in the 19th century, where several successive fatwas
declared its supporters to be heretics and deviants. In Pakistan, this Muslim
minority will be declared non-muslim through a Constitutional amendment and
later an Ordinance will go as far as criminalizing their right to be Muslims.
The community will thus face a wave of persecution and violence under the
sight of the Pakistani State's silence. In 1984, the community led by a
caliphate will find refuge in Britain and will start to explore the freedom to
express and display their religious identity in a visible manner. Through the
theoretical framework of two sociologists of the School of Chicago - Howard
Becker and Erving Goffman - and their work on deviant communities, this book
explores to what extent the lack of recognition of the Muslim identity of
Ahmadis in Pakistan evolves in the specific diasporic context of Britain. This
book examines the relationship between the treatment of a politically
controlled minority in a theocracy and the modalities of its importation into
a Western democracy.
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