An Obscure Centenary

Readers of the New York Times were greeted yesterday with a full-page paid advertisement, notifying its readers of the 100th anniversary of the Ahmadiyya or Ahmadi Muslims’ presence in the United States: on 21 February 1921 their first missionary arrived in Philadelphia. The Ahmadi community—possibly as high as 20 million strong worldwide today, existing in … Continue reading An Obscure Centenary