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 language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 327-340 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 2024 |
Keywords
- Ahmadiyya Islam
- diaspora
- imaginaries of home
- transnational
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology