Barelwī, Sayyid Aḥmad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Gaborieau, Marc
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Sayyid Aḥmad Barelwī (1201-46/1786-1831) was a charismatic Indian leader and a mystic, soldier, religious reformer, and jihād fighter who had a posthumous career as a mahdī . He was born on 6 Ṣafar 1201/29 November 1786 in the Rae Bareilly, near Lucknow, the capital of the kingdom of Awadh, which was already at that time a British protectorate. He belonged to a noble but impoverished family grounded in the Naqshbandī Ṣūfī tradition. When Sayyid Aḥmad was taken to the maktab (traditional elementary school often attached to a