Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi In the Path of the

Introduces the legendary leader of the great 20th-century Sunni movement.

Usha Sanyal is adjunct lecturer at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Preface

x

Acknowledgments

xii

The Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Background

1

(18)

The Mughal Empire

1

(3)

The North Indian Successor States

4

(1)

The History of Rohilkhand

5

(2)

British India under the East India Company

7

(12)

The Muslim Response

19

(32)

Shah Wali Ullah

22

(4)

Farangi Mahall: Training Employees for the Muslim States

26

(2)

Nineteenth-century Reform Movements

28

(23)

Ahmad Riza Khan: Life of a Muslim Scholar

51

(36)

Rampur State

53

(2)

Ahmad Riza's Education and Scholarly Training

55

(1)

Scholarly Imprint of his Father

56

(1)

Exemplary Stories

57

(4)

Sufi Discipleship to Shah Al-e Rasul of Marehra

61

(1)

The Importance of Dreams

61

(1)

Sayyids of the Qadiri Order of Sufis

62

(1)

Going on Pilgrimage, 1878

63

(1)

Ahmad Riza as Mujaddid

64

(2)

Fatwa Writing

66

(2)

Hidden Cues in a Fatwa, or what a Fatwa may not tell us

68

(2)

Ahmad Riza's Fatawa

70

(3)

Two Fatawa Written during Ahmad Riza's Second Pilgrimage to Mecca

73

(4)

Political Issues in the Early Teens and Twenties

77

(4)

Hijrat Movement

81

(2)

Ahmad Riza's Popularity among Core Followers

83

(1)

Passing on the Leadership

84

(3)

Ahmad Riza Khan's Belief System and Worldview

87

(24)

Ahmad Riza as a Sufi

89

(1)

The Perfect Pir

90

(1)

Controversy about Sufi Intercession

91

(1)

The Three Circles of Discipleship

92

(2)

Shaikh 'Abd al-Qadir Jilani and the Importance of the Qadiri Order

94

(2)

Love of the Prophet

96

(4)

Sufi Rituals

100

(2)

Relations with other Muslims

102

(5)

The Accusations of Unbelief

107

(2)

Relations with Non-Muslims: Hindus and the British

109

(2)

Ahl-E Sunnat Institutions and Spread of the Movement Beyond Bareilly

111

(16)

Seminaries (Madrasas)

111

(2)

Printing Presses and Publications

113

(2)

Voluntary Associations and Oral Debates

115

(3)

Generational Fissures in the Movement

118

(4)

Assessment of the Importance of the Movement in Relation to other Movements

122

(5)

Ahmad Riza's Legacy

127

(6)

Ahmad Riza's `Urs in India and Pakistan

129

(2)

Ahl-e Sunnat/Barelwis in the Diaspora

131

(2)

Glossary

133

(2)

Major landmarks in South Asian history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries

135

(3)

Bibliography

138

(5)

Index

143

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