End Times and the Modern World: The Ahmadiyya in Colonial Ghana
The Ahmadiyya, a messianic Muslim missionary movement that expanded globally from South Asia, provided religious, social, and educational services and offered a compelling End Times message in colonial Ghana. An Ahmadi missionary arrived at the invitation of African Muslims, who learned about the mo...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Islamic Africa
Année: 2022, Volume: 13, Numéro: 2, Pages: 161-181 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Ahmadisme
B Modernity B Religious Minority B Ghana |
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Résumé: | The Ahmadiyya, a messianic Muslim missionary movement that expanded globally from South Asia, provided religious, social, and educational services and offered a compelling End Times message in colonial Ghana. An Ahmadi missionary arrived at the invitation of African Muslims, who learned about the movement from the Ahmadiyya’s English-language publications. Africans negotiated the terms of the mission’s founding and supported the residence of a South Asian missionary. Other West African Muslim movements navigated the colonial era with reformed religious practices and organizational changes, and the Ahmadiyya was distinctive with its English-language schools and an eschatology based on its founder’s claims to receive divine revelation as the Messiah and Mahdi. Ghanaian Ahmadi Muslims were a small minority within an overall Muslim minority in Ghana. Their initiatives created a dynamic regional center in an expanding Ahmadiyya network. |
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ISSN: | 2154-0993 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Islamic Africa
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01302001 |