Barelvi Islam is one of the leading Islamic sects of South Asia. Despite its leading role in anti-French threats and protests in recent weeks, the Barelvis and their Sufi practices are often ...

The Barelvi coalition, though supportive of the government, retains the anti-U.S. edge that dominates Islam throughout Pakistan. Mr.

Traditional Barelvi Islam is joining the fray. (SOUNDBITE OF CHANTING) REEVES: On a balmy spring evening, hundreds of people sit on the ground in a giant open tent bathed in fairy lights.

The Barelvi sect from Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly issued fatwa, a non-binding legal opinion in Islam, against the the beheading of the tailor, Kanhaiya Lal, by two locals who were said to be ...

Radical Barelvi groups are now resorting to violence to underline their sect – once famous for its pluralism – as the truest version of Islam. The Barelvis are generally seen as moderate ...

Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi is seen as an influential Islamic scholar and the founder of the largest sub-sect among Sunni Muslims.

The Barelvi movement - named after its 19th-century founder, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, and its origin in the town of Bareilly in India's Uttar Pradesh state - takes inspiration from Sufism.

Pakistan is dominated by feudal landlords who frequently trace their lineage to local saints. They promote the Barelvi version of Islam that accepts mysticism centered on the shrines of the great ...

There was a time when no one really cared what happened to the Barelvis. Remember 2006, when Pakistan witnessed its biggest-ever sectarian slaughter of a grand Barelvi congregation celebrating the ...

Barelvi sect issues fatwa against Udaipur killers, provocative slogans and threats to Nupur Sharma In India, a majority of people from Muslim community belong to Barelvi sect, which has its ...

A new book argues that the Deobandi-Barelvi debate should be seen as competing political theologies The central concern of Sher Ali Khan Tareen’s book, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, is to ...

The recent ‘political meeting’ of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and party MPs inside a mosque in Delhi’s ...