Tablighi Jamaat and the Quest for the London Mega Mosque - Continuity and Change

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Table des matières

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Z Pieri, Z. Pieri, Zacharias P. Pieri
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137464385
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46438-5
• Pages: 205
• Thèmes: The Modern Muslim World; The Modern Muslim World
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Théologie pratique; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres; Islam, B, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Political Sociology, Middle East, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Sociology, general, Political science and theory, Palgrave Political Science Collection, Religion and sociology, Ethnology—Middle East, Middle Eastern Culture, Social Aspects of Religion, Islam;methods;organization;politics