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Islam, youth, and modernity in the Gambia : the Tablighi Jamaʻat /

"This monograph deals with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama'at - a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has its origins in the reformist tradition that emerged in India in the mid-nineteenth century - in the Gambia in the past decade. It explores how a movement that or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Janson, Marloes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : New York : International African Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Colección:International African library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Life is a test, the hereafter is the best'
  • 'Welcome to the smiling coast' : Muslim politics in the Gambia
  • The global meeting the local : the Tablighi Jama'at contextualized
  • Back to the ghetto
  • A jihad for purity
  • Learning to be a good Muslim woman
  • Male wives and female husbands
  • Hungry for knowledge
  • 'Muslims are sleeping and we have to wake them up'.