Qadiani or Qadiyani (qādiyānī in Urdu and Arabic) is a derogatory religious slur used by some South Asian Muslims to refer to the Ahmadi Muslims, primarily in Pakistan. While it is considered pejorative by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it is used in official Pakistani documents. The term itself is a reference to the town of Qadian or Qādiyā...
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(from the article `Amadyah`) On the death of the founder, Mawlawi Nur-ad-Din was elected by the community as khalfah (`successor`). In 1914, when he died, the Amadiyah split, the ... ...headed by a son of the founder, disowned the prophetic claims of Ghulam Ahmad and established its centre in Lahore (in modern Pakistan). The m...
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