Imam Ahmed Raza Academy

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Imam Ahmed Raza Academy
FormationJuly 5, 1986;37 years ago (1986-07-05)
Headquarters1st Floor, 92 Victoria Street, Durban, South Africa
OriginsSouth Africa
ServicesBooks publishing
Official language
English, Urdu, Arabic
General Secretary
Yunus ʿAbd al-Karim al-Qadiri Ridawi
Affiliations Barelvi movement
Website www.raza.org.za

Imam Ahmed Raza Academy is a seminary and non-governmental organisation and a publishing house based in Durban, South Africa. It was established on 5 July 1986 with the idea of preaching Sufism and Islam in South Africa. [1] [2] It is associated with the Barelvi movement, a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam and is named after Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi, the founder of the movement. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Yunus ʿAbd al-Karim al-Qadiri Ridawi is the general secretary of the organisation. [1]

Services

They runs Ar-Raza Feeding Scheme, a weekly free fooding programme which held in more than ten schools of Chatsworth and at the Mazar of Sheikh Badshah Peer every Thursday. [5] They publish “The Message”, a monthly magazine. [5]

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