Ahmadiyya (/ɑːməˈdiə/;[1] officially, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community[2] or the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at; Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية الأحمدية, transliterated: al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmiyyah al-Aḥmadiyyah; Urdu: احمدیہ مسلم جماعت) is an Islamic religious movement founded in Punjab, British India, near the end of the 19th century.[3][4][5][6] It originated with the life and teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908),[7] who claimed to have appeared in fulfilment of the prophecies concerning the world's reformer during the end times; and who was to bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam and herald the eschaton as predicted in Islamic scriptures as well as the traditions of various world religions.[8] He claimed to have been divinely appointed as both the promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah awaited by Muslims.[9][10][11][12] Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad's alternative name Aḥmad.[13][14][15][16]—are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis
Ahmadi thought emphasizes the belief that Islam is the final dispensation for humanity as revealed to Muhammad and the necessity of restoring to it its true intent and pristine form, which had been lost through the centuries.[17] Ahmadiyya adherents consider Ahmad to have appeared as the Mahdi—bearing the qualities of Jesus in accordance with their reading of scriptural prophecies—to revitalize Islam and set in motion its moral system that would bring about lasting peace.[18][19][20] They believe that upon divine guidance he purged Islam of foreign accretions in belief and practice by championing what is, in their view, Islam’s original precepts as practised by Muhammad and the early Muslim community.[21][22] Ahmadis thus view themselves as leading the propagation and renaissance of Islam.[23][24]
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