Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia : The Tablighi Jama'at
Marloes. Janson
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Cambridge University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (328 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Map and Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on Language and Quotations from Interviews; Glossary; 1 'Life Is a Test, the Hereafter Is the Best'; The Anthropology of Islam; Being Young; Being Modern; Being Muslim in Daily Life; Veiled Research; 2 'Welcome to the Smiling Coast': Muslim Politics in the Gambia; The Gambia: Groundnuts and Tourists; History of Islam in the Gambia; Muslim Emancipation; New Muslim Politics; Muslim Discourses and Practices in Daily Life: The Case of Sukuta and Kuyateh Kunda; Sila Keebaa versus Sila Kutoo; Muslim Identities in Practice. - 3 The Global Meets the Local: The Tablighi Jama'at ContextualisedHistory of the Tablighi Jama'at; The Jama'at's Expansion to Sub-Saharan Africa; The Rooting of the Jama'at in the Gambia; Social Profile; Organisational Structure; The Globalisation of Tabligh; 4 Back to the Ghetto; Ahmed; Breaking with the Past; The Jama'at as a Countercultural Youth Movement; The Markaz versus the Ghetto; Manoeuvring between Being Young and Being Muslim; 5 A Jihad for Purity; Bubacar; Remaking the Self; Ritual Orthopraxy; New Forms of Sociality; 6 Learning to Be a Good Muslim Woman; Fatima. - Women's Participation in Ta'limWifehood, Motherhood, and Housewifehood; Embodying Piety; 7 Male Wives and Female Husbands; Aisha; Women's Involvement in Masturat; Reconfiguring Gender Relations; Religious Agency; 8 Hungry for Knowledge; Bachir; Knowledge Production in the Gambia; Tablighi Sources of Knowledge; Islamic Reform and Language; The Markaz versus the Madrasa; 9 'Muslims Are Sleeping and We Have to Wake Them Up'; Being Born-Again; The Personal Is Political; References; Index. - This monograph explores the expansion of the Tablighi Jama'at, a transnational Islamic missionary movement that originated in India in the mid-nineteenth century.
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| ISBN | 9781107040571
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