Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement

This is a classic book which discusses the Split in the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1914 that came about because, after Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s death, his son M. Mahmud Ahmad coined “novel doctrines” opposed to the Founder's beliefs. He alleged that the Promised Messiah was a prophet, and that all Muslims who do not believe in this prophet are outside the pale of Islam. Maulana Muhammad Ali refutes these false doctrines and shows that the Promised Messiah never taught any such beliefs. The Maulana warns that “the gravest of all the consequences of the teaching of M. Mahmud” is that he has changed “the very basis of Islam” by asserting that no one can now remain or become a Muslim unless he believes in a prophet who has come after the Holy Prophet Muhammad.

This book derives great authority and value from the fact that it was written and published in 1918, very close to the time of the Split. As it was written in English, it gives the English-reading public direct access to an original source dealing with the religious aspects of the Split.