Aḥmadiyya is a messianic Islamic movement founded by Ghulām Aḥmad in the Panjāb in the 1880s. 1. General Since its inception in 1889, the Aḥmadī movement has been one of the most active and controversial movements in modern Islam. The Aḥmadīs have conducted vigorous missionary activity in many countries of the world, establishing mosques and centres in European, North American, African, and Asian cities. The relationship between the Aḥmadī movement and mainstream Sunnī Islam has been dominated by the hotly contested question of whether the Aḥmadī belief in the prophethood