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Ahl- e -Quran
(In Arabic: people of the Quran) A puritanical movement in South Asian Islam whose followers emphasized the absolute authority of the Quran. The movement was formed in the early 20th century.
One of the first preachers, Abdullah Chakralawi, believed that most ahadiths (plural of *hadith) are unreliable (because they come from word-of-mouth) and, therefore, cannot be used as precedents for solving legal problems. Therefore socio-political development of Muslim societies must be based exclusively on the Quran, the perfect source of Muslim tradition.

Ahl-i-Quran recognize the right of Muslims to *ijtihad and maintain that the Muslim holy book, by avoiding direct answers to many personal problems, gives one the freedom of choice in one's actions. In Pakistan, the followers of Ahl-i-Quran are united into a public organization known as Tulu-i-Islam (The Dawn of Islam).

The guiding leader of the movement, until recently, was Ghu1am Ahmad Pervaiz. Parvaiz did not believe in the private ownership of the factors of productions (money, buildings or labour). According to him, they should be the responsibility of those who distribute according to the laws of God. He was careful to distance himself from the atheistic ideology of communism. Parvaiz asserts that neither capitalism nor priesthood were prevalent in the lifetime of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and belong to the later dynastic kingdoms. Tulu-i-Islam is also the name of the journal which disseminates the views supported by Ahl-iQuran.