Historical Sciences Studies

Seyyed Ahmed Barili's Political-Military Strategies in Confronting the Sikhs

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Ahmad Zubair bayanfar 1
khadijeh alemi 2

1 PhD Student in Islamic History, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jhss.2025.391112.473787
Abstract
Seyyed Ahmed was from Bareilly who went to Delhi to study and became one of the students of Shah AbdulAziz of Delhi. In a fatwa, Shah AbdulAziz declared the Indian subcontinent Dar al Harb, and Seyyed Ahmed, inspired by his opinions, decided to remove the Indian subcontinent from non-Muslim rule through the principle of Jihad.Ahmed Barili's main goal was to liberate the subcontinent from British domination. Therefore, we first decided to form a region far from the British government and then make it a base for the liberation of the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, Ahmed Barili migrated to the northwestern regions of the subcontinent and, with the efforts of the Jamaat-e-Mujahideen movement, prepared for jihad against the Sikhs and the British. So the main question is what political and military strategies did Ahmed Barili adopt to use personal computers and Sikhs? The claim, using the library method and the use of descriptive and historical analysis, is that Ahmed Barili adopted the dual paths of migration and jihad to create Dar al-Islam and confront the Sikh state. The first research is that Ahmed Barili was the first Muslim in the Indian subcontinent to issue a fatwa of jihad against British colonialism and for the first time put forward the theory of Islamic rule over Sharia and called himself Amir al-Mu'minin. Despite winning the battle of Akora, he was defeated and killed in the two battles of Shaidu and Balakot

Keywords

Seyyed Ahmed Barili
Hijra
Jihad
Mujahideen Group
Sikhs
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