Hard, if not outright impossible. Ahmadiyya came out right before the 20th Century came along, way too late to contest the nationally-endorsed Sunni, Shia and Ibadi institutions. It would need something radical, like a Sultan or dictator ordering mass conversions without the risk of removal, to even get a predominantly Ahmadi country.
So yea, unimaginable without a miracle/horror show.
So yea, unimaginable without a miracle/horror show.
Yeah, timing is gonna be a big problem for this. There have been numerous periods throughout history when Islam was more laidback and tolerant than Christendom; however, the 20th Century did not shape up to be one of them. And teaching that your faith has produced the Messiah within living memory is gonna have you on a pretty serious collision course with the more orthodox proponents of the faith, many of whom will not shirk from taking up the sword(not to mention the gun) in defense of their beliefs. That's happening OTL to the Ahmadiyya adherents in numerous places as it is.
But hey. The Seventh Day Aventists managed to convert an entire island, albeit a very small one, so maybe Ahmadiyya can pull off something like that.
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To the extent that this scenario has a fighting chance at all, the best bet might be somewhere in Africa, specifically Sierre Leone or Tanzania, where Ahmadis make up respectively 12% and 15% of Muslims, and respectively 8% and 4.5% of the general population.
They've also done pretty well as a percentage of Muslims in Lesotho, but dismally for the general population.
And Ahmadis are 100% of Muslims in Tuvalu. The details...
Islam was first introduced to the island nation by a British Ahmadi Muslim of Pakistani descent, Iftikhar A. Ayaz, who works as the British consular representative to Tuvalu Islands. In 1985, he came to Tuvalu, and in out of office hours, he endeavoured to introduce the Islamic faith to the local population. With several converts to the faith, Ayaz requested the headquarters of the Community in London to send a missionary to the Islands. As a result, Hafiz Jibrail, a Ghanaian missionary, who was already based in the South Pacific at the time, arrived in 1989, approximately four years after the introduction of Islam to the nation. However, in 1991 Hafiz Jibrail had to be transferred to the Kiribati Islands and thus was replaced by Abdul Ghaffar, another Ghanaian missionary to the Community. Nonetheless, having served the Islands for roughly 5 years, he returned to serve his home country, Ghana. After a lag of several years, during which the islands had no missionary, Abdul Hakeem Boateng, another Ghanaian missionary arrived in 2003, who served there until 2009. Since 2009, Muhammad Idris, an Indonesian missionary to the Ahmadiyya Community, is now the current and first non-Ghanaian missionary to Tuvalu.[2]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community translated the Quran into the Tuvaluan language in 1990.[3] The Tuvalu mosque, first constructed in 1991, is the only mosque in the Islands.[2][4]
Still just a miniscule portion of the general population, though.
They've also done pretty well as a percentage of Muslims in Lesotho, but dismally for the general population.
And Ahmadis are 100% of Muslims in Tuvalu. The details...
Islam was first introduced to the island nation by a British Ahmadi Muslim of Pakistani descent, Iftikhar A. Ayaz, who works as the British consular representative to Tuvalu Islands. In 1985, he came to Tuvalu, and in out of office hours, he endeavoured to introduce the Islamic faith to the local population. With several converts to the faith, Ayaz requested the headquarters of the Community in London to send a missionary to the Islands. As a result, Hafiz Jibrail, a Ghanaian missionary, who was already based in the South Pacific at the time, arrived in 1989, approximately four years after the introduction of Islam to the nation. However, in 1991 Hafiz Jibrail had to be transferred to the Kiribati Islands and thus was replaced by Abdul Ghaffar, another Ghanaian missionary to the Community. Nonetheless, having served the Islands for roughly 5 years, he returned to serve his home country, Ghana. After a lag of several years, during which the islands had no missionary, Abdul Hakeem Boateng, another Ghanaian missionary arrived in 2003, who served there until 2009. Since 2009, Muhammad Idris, an Indonesian missionary to the Ahmadiyya Community, is now the current and first non-Ghanaian missionary to Tuvalu.[2]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community translated the Quran into the Tuvaluan language in 1990.[3] The Tuvalu mosque, first constructed in 1991, is the only mosque in the Islands.[2][4]
Still just a miniscule portion of the general population, though.
This thread reminds me of an Ahmadiyya-sponsored forum I attended in the early 90s some time, at my university. It was on the topic of "Who Is The Messiah", and was billed as a multifaith discussion. So, there were speakers representing Catholicism, evangelical Protestantism, liberal Protestantism, mainstream Islam, etc, all giving fairly balanced and dispassionate explanations on how their faith views the Messiah.
The Ahmadi speaker was last. His speech had all the subtlety and objectivity of a TV evangelist. He wasn't angry or belligerent, but definitely fired up about convincing everyone that the Ahmadis had the correct understanding.
The Ahmadi speaker was last. His speech had all the subtlety and objectivity of a TV evangelist. He wasn't angry or belligerent, but definitely fired up about convincing everyone that the Ahmadis had the correct understanding.
Though it is probably unlikely, is it completely out of the question for an Ahmadi state to be established in a part of Pakistan or Indonesia for example?