SPECI AL SECTI ON: I DEAS OF MOVEMENT, FAI TH, AND HOME I N MUSLI M COMMUNI TI ES I N THE DI ASPORA -Diaspora as home The global community of Ahmadiyya Muslims

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Abstract

The spiritual home of Ahmadiyya Muslims and physical home of their leader has moved from India to Pakistan to London in under a century. These relocations signal the communal dislocation and diasporic spread of Ahmadis. Some collective experi-ences of migration, encompassing memories and myths of the original homeland, persist; others, including the idea that the ancestral homeland is a place of return, require a more complicated historical explication. In Ahmadi eschatology, the eventual conversion of the Earth to Ahmadiyyat is the future. Therefore, no single place can be a homeland for return when the whole globe will become theirs in time. This will constitute the very negation of diaspora as everywhere will then be home.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)327-340
Number of pages14
JournalHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1 2024

Keywords

  • Ahmadiyya Islam
  • diaspora
  • imaginaries of home
  • transnational

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Anthropology

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