Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi

Usha Sanyal is Adjunct Lecturer at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina. Works include: Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan and his Movement, 1870 - 1920 (OUP, 1999).

• PrefaceAcknowledgments 1 THE EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUNDThe Mughal EmpireThe North Indian Successor StatesThe History of RohilkhandBritish India under the East India Company 2 THE MUSLIM RESPONSEShah Wali UllahFarangi Mahall: Training Employees for the Muslim StatesNineteenth-century Reform Movements 3 AHMAD RIZA KHAN: LIFE OF A MUSLIM SCHOLARRampur StateAhmad Riza’s Education and Scholarly TrainingScholarly Imprint of his FatherExemplary StoriesSufi Discipleship to Shah Al-e Rasul of MarehraThe Importance of DreamsSayyids of the Qadiri Order of SufisGoing on Pilgrimage, 1878Ahmad Riza as MujaddidFatwa WritingHidden Cues in a Fatwa, or what a Fatwa may not tell usAhmad Riza’s FatawaTwo Fatawa Written during Ahmad Riza’s Second Pilgrimage to MeccaPolitical Issues in the Early Teens and TwentiesHijrat MovementAhmad Riza’s Popularity among Core FollowersPassing on the Leadership 4 AHMAD RIZA KHAN’S BELIEF SYSTEM AND WORLDVIEWAhmad Riza as a SufiThe Perfect PirControversy about Sufi IntercessionThe Three Circles of DiscipleshipShaikh‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani and the Importance of the Qadiri OrderLove of the ProphetSufi RitualsRelations with other MuslimsThe Accusations of UnbeliefRelations with Non-Muslims: Hindus and the British 5 AHL-E SUNNAT INSTITUTIONS AND SPREAD OF THE MOVEMENT BEYOND BAREILLYSeminaries (Madrasas)Printing Presses and PublicationsVoluntary Associations and Oral DebatesGenerational Fissures in the MovementAssessment of the Importance of the Movement in Relation to other Movements 6 AHMAD RIZA’S LEGACYAhmad Riza’s ‘Urs in India and PakistanAhl-e Sunnat/Barelwis in the Diaspora GlossaryMajor landmarks in South Asian history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuriesBibliographyIndex