Pieri Tablighi Jamaat and the Quest for the London Mega Mosque

Continuity and Change
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-46439-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: The Modern Muslim World

The book charts the attempts of Islam's largest missionary movement, the Tablighi Jamaat, to build Europe's largest mosque in London. Key themes include how Islamic movements engage and adapt within liberal democracies and how local contexts are key in understanding how and why movements operate in a given way.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pieri, Z.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Framing the Context  3. Conceiving Tablighi Jamaat  4. Tablighi Jamaat: Organization, Structure and Methods 5. Tablighis in Britain: Adapting to Shifting Contexts 6. Tablighi Jamaat in Transition 2005 – 2010 7. Tablighi Jamaat and the Politics of Adaptation 8. Tablighi Jamaat from Within 9. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Zacharias Pieri is a Resarch Fellow at the Citizenship Initiative, University of South Florida, USA. He is a a political sociologist with extensive ethnographic research experience of British and European Muslim communities.