Barelvi movement
A living tradition within Hanafi school.
Barelvi movement is a living tradition within Hanafi school. Also written Barelwi, Ahl-i Sunnat wa Jama'at (South Asian usage).
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Ahmad Raza Khan Barelwi (1856-1921). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Oxford Bibliographies describes Ahmad Raza Khan's doctrinal positions as formed partly in response to the Deoband school of 1866-7. The Jami'ah Ridwiyah Manzar-i-Islam was founded at Bareilly in March 1904 under his patronage. No single founding year for the movement is given by the sources reached, and none is asserted.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Barelvi movement.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-barelvi-movement.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.