Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at

ISBN-13: 9781108403863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 325 str.

Marloes Janson

Opis

This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century.

Recenzje

'Marloes Janson has written a particularly rich and thought-provoking ethnography of the Tablighi Movement in Gambia.' R. Launay, Contemporary Islam

Spis treści

1. 'Life is a test, the hereafter is the best'; 2. 'Welcome to the smiling coast': Muslim politics in the Gambia; 3. The global meeting the local: the Tablighi Jama'at contextualized; 4. Back to the ghetto; 5. A jihad for purity; 6. Learning to be a good Muslim woman; 7. Male wives and female husbands; 8. Hungry for knowledge; 9. 'Muslims are sleeping and we have to wake them up'.