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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Ahmadiyya in the Gambia, French territories and Liberia
Author:Fisher, H.ISNI
Year:1962
Periodical:West Africa
Volume:46
Page:93
Language:English
Geographic terms:Gambia
Liberia
French-speaking Africa
West Africa
Subjects:Mahdis
Ahmadiyya
Abstract:The Ahmadiyya movement has met with much opposition from the Orthodox Muslims, in the Gambia, who disapproved of Ahmadiyya doctrine and disliked their separatism. The government was concerned for Muslim harmony and was afraid for damage of Muslim-christian relations. The Gambian Ahmadis however, are not zealous in dogmatic conviction nor in particularist action. Their chief concern is Islamic education; 1960, the coming of a missionary was allowed and a school will be built. Ahmadi penetration in French territory is very slight. In Liberia an Ahmadi mission has been established only a short while ago.
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