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Ahmaddiya  

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  • Ahmaddiya is a new religious movement that originated as a sect of Islam. The Ahmaddiya movement was founded by the religious reformer Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908) in the village of Qadian in the Punjab region of India. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Ahmaddiya]

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