Topic: Ahmadiyya

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Translations of the Koran in different languages (source: gloqur.de)

The Global Qur'an

Searching the suras

Research project "The Global Qur'an", brainchild of Professor of Islamic Studies Johanna Pink and sponsored by the European Research Council, analyses the history and dissemination of Koran translations while examining the role of nation-states and missionary movements. By Arnfried SchenkMore

"The Global Qur'an" official websiteInterview with Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: For a plurality of Koranic interpretationsKoranic research: The reader maketh the bookInterview with Angelika Neuwirth: "The Koran – a book in many languages"Koran translations: Precise or poetic?
Barelvis demonstrating in Lahore, Pakistan, 2017 (photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/M. Sajjad)

Religious persecution in Pakistan

Violence increasing against the beleaguered Ahmadiyya community

Pakistan's anti-Ahmadi laws have been in place for almost 40 years now, and the impact on this religious minority has been devastating. In a war of attrition, the laws have ground down the Ahmadi community, scarring an entire generation. Fear, flight and persecution are the hallmarks of life for the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. According to Mohammad Luqman, there is little hope of improvementMore

Endemic anti-Ahmadiyya discrimination: Pakistan's "Commission for Minorities" without the AhmadisRadicalisation among Barelvis in Pakistan: The spread of violent fanaticismHuman rights in the Islamic world: Battle cry "blasphemy"Interview with Nadeem Aslam: "Within three or four years the texture of Pakistani life changed"
Protest in Pakistan (photo: AFP/Getty Images/A. Majeed)

Radicalisation among Barelvis in Pakistan

The spread of violent fanaticism

In the early years of the new millennium, Pakistan's leaders were keen to promote the Barelvi movement as the embodiment of traditional, peaceful, Pakistani Islam. In recent years, however, certain Barelvi elements have become radicalised. Now, the violence is spreading beyond Pakistan's bordersMore

Islam in Pakistan: The myth of the Muslim monolithEndemic anti-Ahmadiyya discrimination: Pakistan's "Commission for Minorities" without the AhmadisCOVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Coronavirus and Pakistan's wayward clerics
A Pakistani soldier collects information from an Ahmadi Muslim resident (photo: Getty Images/A. Ali)

Endemic anti-Ahmadiyya discrimination

Pakistan's "Commission for Minorities" without the Ahmadis

Pakistan’s conduct towards the Ahmadis and its obsession with religious identity is symptomatic of the radicalisation of society that permeates all areas of life and is reflected in the laws of the land, says Mohammad LuqmanMore

Human rights in the Islamic world: Battle cry "blasphemy"U.S. panel urges commitments from Pakistan on religious freedomThe Ahmadiyya community in Germany: Admonitions from the Caliph
"Love for all, hate for no-one": this year’s Jalsa Salana, organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Karlsruhe (photo: DW/Nermin Ismail)

Germanyʹs Ahmadiyya community

"Integration is the least of our problems"

Recently some 45,000 Muslims of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat met for their annual peace conference, the so-called "Jalsa Salana". Nermin Ismail attended the meeting of the Islamic reform movement in KarlsruheMore

Ahmadiyya community in Germany: Successor to the promised MessiahGermany's Ahmadiyya Muslims: Celebrating 100 years of the CaliphateThe Ahmadiyya community in Germany: Admonitions from the Caliph
Afghan militias in Ghazni province (photo: DW)

Fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan

Where the warlords still hold sway

The militias of Afghan warlords have always occupied a dubious position in the life of the country. But Kabul relies on them as allies in the battle against the Taliban – a strategy, however, that is having the opposite effect. By Emran FerozMore

The Taliban′s spring offensive: Over one million displaced AfghansNATO in Afghanistan: Hopes of withdrawal fadeAfghanistan: the Taliban′s Kunduz offensive: "There's nothing left to keep me here"
Remembering the victims of the Taliban attack on a military school in December 2014 in Peshwar, Pakistan (photo: DW/F. Khan)

Islam in Pakistan

The myth of the Muslim monolith

In Pakistan, a radical minority of Muslims has usurped the definition of "Islam". Since the 1980s, government policies have supported their radical and violent ideology, and the judiciary confirmed that trend. The bitter irony is that the militant groups that benefited from state action are now not only terrorising the people, but rising up against the state itself. By Maryam S. KhanMore

Taliban attacks on schools in Pakistan: "We will never forget what happened"The emergence of Islamic State in Pakistan: "They don't negotiate, they don't make partners"Peshawar school attack: The cynical logic of the Pakistan TalibanJihadism in Dagestan: A growing problem in the fight against terrorism