Syncretic Islam Paperback by Anil Maheshwari and Richa Singh

Syncretic Islam is a befitting tribute to the most influential Alim of his time, al’a Hazrat Imam Ahmad Raza Khan, on the year of his death Centenary in 2021. Syncretic Islam is a fascinating and brilliant study of the religious thought and career of one of the doyens of Muslim traditionalism in South Asia, Imam Ahmad Raza Khan barelvi. An Islamic scholar, jurist and an Urdu poet, Ahmad Raza Khan was the founder of the barely movement whose defining feature of thought is the active veneration of the Prophet as the most exalted of all beings. This work overviews and analyses the multiple facets constituting Ahmad Raza Khan’s intellectual life and, in extension, the barely school of thought in an eminently accessible manner.