In this exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama at, which is arguably the world s largest lay Islamic missionary movement, Farish Ahmad-Noor provides extensive research on the group as well as several conversion narratives from Tablighi members in a number of Asian countries. A key study of an important and complex movement, this volume locates the spiritual framework of the sect in the context of the national and political climate of the countries in which its followers live. Moreover, Ahmad-Noor analyzes the way in which Tablighi followers themselves see the...
In this exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama at, which is arguably the world s largest lay Islamic missionary movement, ...
The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hypernationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region s failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and he...
The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces rangi...
