Ahmadiyya, officially the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (
AMJ), is an Islamic messianic movement originating in the Punjab Province of British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions. Adherents of the Ahmadiyya—a term adopted expressly in reference to Muhammad's alternative name
Ahmad—are known as Ahmadi Muslims or simply Ahmadis.