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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A number of Barelvi preachers and organisations have openly valorised Qadri and linked his execution to the state’s neglect of Islam. What makes Rizvi stand apart was his ability to give voice to a ...

It is no small development that the act was committed by two followers of the Barelvi or Sufi or dargah-worshipping Muslims, long seen as moderate as compared to the Wahabis — represented by ...

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.

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 ...

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