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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farish A. Noor (Farish Ahmad Noor), 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tablighi Jamaʻat.

Islam--Missions.

Islam.

Islam--Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-69821-2

1-04-078729-0

1-283-69839-0

90-485-1682-X

9781003698210

OCLC:

817540176