Far from the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian

How do you prove that you're Muslim?

This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority-people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: What evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith?

In Far from the Caliph's Gaze Nicholas H. A. Evans explores how a need to respond ...