All India Sunni Conference


All India Sunni Conference was an organisation of Indian Sunni Muslims associated with Sufism and this Conference became the voice of Barelvi movement in British India. The Conference was established in 1925 in the wake of Congress led secular Indian nationalism, changing Geo-political situation of India by leading Barelvi personalities of that time including Jamaat Ali Shah, Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi, Mustafa Raza Khan Qadri, Amjad Ali Aazmi, Abdul Hamid Qadri Badayuni, Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi and Pir Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah among others.

Foundation

A number of Sunni ulema at the meeting at Jami’ah Na’imia, Moradabad on March 16–19, 1925 set up an organization by the name of Jamiyyat-e-Aliyah-al Markaziah, commonly known as the All India Sunni Conference. At its inaugural session, Jamaat Ali Shah was elected its president and the convener of the meeting, vice president Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi as Naib Ameer and Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi as its Nazim-e-AIa.

Objectives

The main aim of AISC was to unite the Sunni majority of India on one platform and to work for their social, educational and political upliftment among others.

All India Sessions

After creation of Pakistan, All India Sunni Conference was converted into Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan.

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