KADIYÂNİLİK

In India 19th century was a period in which religious discussions were being done between Muslims and Christians excitedly. On the one hand missionaries, that English Government was supporting them, were preaching the Christianity and denying the Islam actively, on the other hand Arya Samac preacher were attacking to Islam excitedly as well. In order to keep on their power and to create intellectual and moral unrest, the British had encouraged these discussions. In the beginning Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who was founder Qadianism, had struggled to give an answer to these attacks that were against the Islam and had written a lot of books so that he can prove the faithfulness and the superiority of Islam to the other religions, the miracle of Koran and the prophethood of Hz. Muhammad with rational evidences and at the same time in order to be refutation to the Christianity, Aria Samaj and Brahmo Samaj. But then in 1891 because of that he declared himself the Mahdi, and the promised Messiah and after that prophet who the owner of shariat (divine law) in front of Islamic community and chose the Muslims as the target masses, all these things had made his movement suspicious and had drawn reaction of the Muslims. Hence in this study Qadianism that appeared in British India, has been dealt with all aspect.