Sunni Tehreek

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Tomb of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Qadri

Founders and Central figures

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Peer Jamaat Ali Shah Hamid Raza Khan Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri Maulana Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi Shah Turab ul Haq

History/Movement

All India Sunni Conference Tehreek-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Shaheed Ganj Mosque Movement against Shuddhi Shah Bano Movement

Notable Scholars

Past Khwaja Qamar ul Din Sialvi Shah Ahmad Noorani Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi Arshadul Qaudri Shamsul-hasan Shams Barelvi Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi Sahibzada Haji Muhammad Fazal Karim Nurul Islam Farooqi Present Ashraf Asif Jalali Qamaruzzaman Azmi Ameen Mian Qaudri Sheikh Aboobacker Ahmed Syed Shujaat Ali Qadri Muhammad Arshad Misbahi Hamid Saeed Kazmi Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi Mukarram Ahmad Muhammad Saeed Noori Akhtar Raza Khan

Institutions

India Jamiatur Raza Bareilly Manzar-e-Islam Bareilly Al Jamiatul Ashrafia Azamgarh Al-Jame-atul-Islamia Mau Jamia-tul-Madina Global Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya Kerala Jamia Nizamia Hyderabad, Pakistan Jamia Naeemia Lahore Jamia Amjadia Rizvia Karachi Jamia Nizamia Ghousia Wazirabad, 'United Kingdom Jamia Al-Karam Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland

Literature and Notable Works

Kanzul Iman, Fatawa-e-Razvia Bahar-e-Shariat, Husamul Haramain Manaqib-al-Jaleela

Organizations

World Islamic Mission Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Sunni Tehreek Sunni Ittehad Council Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat Tanzeem ul Madaris Raza Academy Dargah-e-Ala Hazrat

Pakistan Sunni Tehreek is a Pakistani Barelvi Religious, Welfare and Political organization. The organization was founded by Muhammad Saleem Qadri Shaheed in Pakistan in 1990 to protect the Mosques of Sunni Muslims of Barelvi school of thought, which is followed by a vast majority in Pakistan.^[1][2]

History

After the fragmenting and decline of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Pakistan Sunni Tehreek arose as the primary opposition to the Deobandi Banuri Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai. The Pakistan Sunni Tehreek strongly opposed the giving of important religious posts to Deobandis. Its branch in Lahore publicly declared its opposition to the appointment of a Deobandi cleric as khateeb of Badshahi Mosque, and other similar appointments.^[3]

Controversies

In May 2001, sectarian riots broke out after Sunni Tehreek leader Saleem Qadri was assassinated by Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, an anti-Shiite Deobandi militant group. His successor, Abbas Qadri, charged President Pervez Musharraf's regime with "patronising terrorists" and "standing between us and the murderers."^[4]

In April 2007, according to some sources, Sunni Tehreek members opened gunfire on an Ahl al-Hadith Mosque in Karachi. One worshiper was killed in the attack.^[5] After the attack, Western analysts described the movement as a radicalization of traditional beliefs in the Indian subcontinent.^[6]

References

1. http://pakistanherald.com/Profile/Muhammad-Ejaz-Sarwat-Qadri-804
2. "Karachi suicide blasts have Al-Qaida links". The Times of India. Archived from the original on March 2, 2009. Retrieved 2008-04-13.
3. [sacw] SACW Dispatch | 9 Sept. 00
4. South Asia Monitor >
5. Staff report (11 April 2007). "One dead as ST tries to take control of Ahle Hadith mosque". Daily Times. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
6. Olivier Roy and Antoine Sfeir, The Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism, pg. 275. Columbia University Press, 2007.

External links

• Official Website of Sunni Tehreek