20. YÜZYILIN BAŞINDA LONDRA’DA BİR İSLAM MİSYONERİ: HOCA KEMALEDDİN VE WOKİNG MÜSLİM MİSYONU

Year 2017, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 204 - 226, 14.12.2017

Aydın Bayram

Abstract

Bu makale,
Birleşik Krallık’ta 1889 yılında ilk olarak bir camii formunda ibadete açılan
Woking mescidinin müdavimlerinden oluşan Woking Müslüman topluluğunu (Woking
Muslim Community) ve bu topluluğun aktif liderliğini üstlenen Hint asıllı bir
avukat olan Hoca Kemaleddin’i konu edinmektedir. Hindistan’da ortaya çıkan
Kadiyanilik ya da Ahmediyye’nin Lahor koluna bağlı olduğu iddia edilen Hoca
Kemaleddin, Londra’da vermiş olduğu seminer ve konferanslarla pek çok
İngiliz’in hidayetine vesile olması ile dikkat çekmektedir. Araştırmamız, bir
dava lideri olarak Hoca Kemaleddin üzerine yoğunlaşmakla beraber Londra’nın
Woking kasabasında açılan caminin açılış ve tarihi sürecini ele almaktadır.
Makalede, ayrıca Hoca Kemaleddin’in kurucusu olduğu Woking Müslim Misyonu’nu ve
Hindistan’ın Kadiyan kasabasında ortaya çıkan Ahmediyye hareketinin bu misyon
üzerindeki faaliyetleri incelenmektedir.

Keywords

Hoca Kemaleddin, Woking Müslim Misyonu, Ahmediyye (Kadiyanîlik), Londra

A MUSLIM MISSIONER IN LONDON AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY: KHWAJA KAMALUDDIN AND WOKING MUSLIM MISSION

Abstract

This article
examines the Woking Muslim Community, a congregation who worshiped in the first
purpose-built mosque of the United Kingdom opened in 1889 and Khwaja Kamaluddin,
an Indian-born lawyer who took on the active leadership of the community. Khwaja
Kamaluddin, allegedly affiliated with Kadiyani or Lahore Ahmadiyya emerged in
India, is pointed out giving a number of seminars and conferences about Islam
in London and playing an instrumental in the conversion of many British people
into Islam. Our research focuses on Khwaja Kamaluddin as a mission leader and
discusses the opening and historical process of the mosque opened in the town
of Woking, London. Therefore, in the article, it is dealt with the Woking
Muslim Mission, which is the founder of Khwaja Kamaluddin, as well as the
activities of the Ahmadiyya movement that emerged in the town of Kadiyan in
India on that mission.

Keywords

Khwaja Kamaluddin, Woking Muslim Mission, (Kadiyanism) Ahmadiyya, London

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