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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141430303321

Autore

Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor), <1967->

Titolo

Islam on the move : the Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia / / Farish A. Noor [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2012

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-69839-0

90-485-1682-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

297.74

Soggetti

Islam - Missions

Islam - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on Proper Names and the Spelling Used in This Book -- Glossary -- Introduction. Brother Bismillah and My Introduction to the Tablighi Jama'at -- I. At Home Across the Sea -- II. Learning to Be -- III. Learning on the March -- IV. The Stories We Tell -- V. Learning to Be Tablighi -- VI. How We Look and What We Are -- VII. Finally, a Summing Up -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 movement, and he traces the way in which internal and external perspectives shape the religion. Islam on the Move seeks to create a more nuanced and variegated portrait of Islam than the reductivist narrative of the religion that became commonplace in the mainstream Western media after the



events of September 11th.