Far from the Caliphs Gaze
How do you prove that you're Muslim?This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Community, it poses an existential challenge. They must constantly ask the question: what evidence could ever be sufficie… Celý popis ↓
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Far from the Caliphs Gaze
How do you prove that you're Muslim?This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Community, it poses an existential challenge. They must constantly ask the question: what evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith?In Far from the Caliph's Gaze, Nicholas Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern Indian. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority--people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge.
Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader--the caliph--since partition, and the believers who nowadays live Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya Community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world.