The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (347 page)

 
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Bardo Todrol
(Tibetan afterdeath state)
:

see
TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD
.

 
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Barelvi
.

Indian and Pakistani school of Muslim thought with over 200 million followers. The Dar-al-uloom was founded in 1904 by the Qadiri
S
f
master, Im
m Ahmad Reza (d. 1921) at Barelvi in N. India. Im
m Ahmad Reza perceived the moral and intellectual decline of Indian Muslims at the beginning of the 20th cent. His solution was to strengthen the ordinary person's Islam by having the
Hanafi
shari‘a
propagated through well-respected channels such as S
f
shaykhs
and ‘ulam
.
Barelvi is a stronghold of
Sunni
orthodoxy against the
Wahh
b
and
Ahmad
yya
movements. See also
DEOBAND
.