This monograph deals with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama'at a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has its origins in the reformist tradition that emerged in India in the mid-nineteenth century in the Gambia in the past decade. It explores how a movement that originated in South Asia could appeal to the local Muslim population youth and women in particular in a West African setting. By recording the biographical narratives of five Gambian Tablighis, the book provides an understanding of the ambiguities and contradictions young people are confronted with in their...