Islam on the move : the Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia /
"Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama'at, arguably the world's largest...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Brother Bismillah and my introduction to the Tablighi Jama'at
- At home across the sea the arrival of the Tablighi Jama'at and its spread across southeast Asia
- Learning to be the foundational literature of the Tablighi Jama'at and its role in defining the movement
- Learning on the march the portable, reader-friendly literature of the Tablighi Jama'at and its role in the self-identification and reproduction of the movement
- The stories we tell the conversion narratives of the Tablighi Jama'at and the internalisation of the Tablighi identity
- Learning to be Tablighi the rule-governed World of the Tablighi and the disciplining of the self
- How we look and what we are the Tablighi Jama'at framed in the eyes of others
- Finally, a summing up the Tablighi Jama'at as the complex thing that it is.