Imam Ahmed Raza Academy
FormationJuly 5, 1986 (1986-07-05)
Headquarters1st Floor, 92 Victoria Street, Durban, South Africa
OriginsSouth Africa
ServicesBooks publishing
Official language
English, Urdu, Arabic
General Secretary
Yunus ʿAbd al-Karim al-Qadiri Ridawi
AffiliationsBarelvi movement
Websitewww.raza.org.za

Imam Ahmed Raza Academy is a seminary and non-governmental organisation and a publishing house based in Durban, South Africa. It was established on 5 July 1986 with the idea of preaching Sufism and Islam in South Africa.[1][2] It is associated with the Barelvi movement, a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam and is named after Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, the founder of the movement.[3][4] [5][6]

Yunus ʿAbd al-Karim al-Qadiri Ridawi is the general secretary of the organisation.[1]

Services

They runs Ar-Raza Feeding Scheme, a weekly free fooding programme which held in more than ten schools of Chatsworth and at the Mazar of Sheikh Badshah Peer every Thursday.[5] They publish “The Message”, a monthly magazine.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Ridgeon, Lloyd (2015-04-23). Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4725-2919-0.
  2. ↑ Bangstad, Sindre (2007). Global Flows, Local Appropriations: Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims. Amsterdam University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-90-5356-015-0.
  3. ↑ Hassankhan, Maurits S.; Vahed, Goolam; Roopnarine, Lomarsh (2016-11-10). Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora: Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. Taylor & Francis. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-351-98687-8.
  4. ↑ Mazrui, Ali A.; Dikirr, Patrick M.; Ostergard, Jr Robert; Toler, Michael; Macharia, Paul (June 2012). Africas Islamic Experiences- History, Culture, and Politics. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 978-81-207-9101-5.
  5. 1 2 3 Mahida, Ebrahim Mahomed (1993). History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology. Arabic Study Circle. pp. 132–134. ISBN 978-0-620-17976-8.
  6. ↑ International Journal for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages. Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages. 2000. p. 89.
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