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The Real Face Of Roshaniyya Movement

Abstract

Bayazid Ansari, the founder of Roshaniyya Movement, was basically a mystic, who had some knowledge of Islam. He had originally initiated the Roshaniyya movement for spreading his teachings among the people, however, he almost everywhere faced resistance from the orthodox Ulama and saints. According to them Bayazid Ansari had deviated from the right path. As far as the term Roshaniyya is concerned it was due to the nickname of Bayazid Ansari as he was known by the name of Pir Roshan or Rokhan (the illuminated guide), As regard the true status of the Roshaniyya movement there exists difference of views, as to some people it was a religio-cum-Sufic movement while to others it was political in nature yet to another group of scholars Roshaniyya was a Pakhtun nationalist movement. This paper is an attempt to analyse the said issue in order to reach an understandable conclusion.

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