Ahmadism

English Etymology From en Ahmad -ism. Proper noun en Ahmadiyya en 1956 Arnold Toynbee A Study of History 5 188 https://books.google.fr/books?id=ungEAQAAIAAJ The upshot of our present inquiry seems to be that, while the evidence for the recruitment of an internal proletariat is at least as abundant in the recent history of our Western World as it is in the history of any other civilization, there is singularly little evidence in our Western history so far for the laying of any foundations of a proletarian universal church or even for the emergence of any strong-winged proletarian-born 'higher religions'. Communism seems not to 'fill the bill' any better than Anabaptism or Quakerism or Bahaism or Ahmadism; and these five movements, which make so oddly assorted a company, are a small catch to take in a net which we have thrown so wide. en 1960 A Bunch of Old Letters 188 https://books.google.com/books?id=GqaBAAAAIAAJ After the publication of my paper I discovered, to my great surprise, that even the educated Muslims had no idea of the historical causes which had shaped the teachings of Ahmadism. en 1961 Anna A. Knight The Broken Circle https://books.google.com/books?id=HWlNAQAAMAAJ 49 He was born in 1891 but conceived in 1890, the year Ahmadism was organized. Related terms en Ahmadi Ahmadist Ahmadiyat Ahmadiyya en Islam