By Marloes Janson

ISBN-10: 1107040574

ISBN-13: 9781107040571

ISBN-10: 1108403867

ISBN-13: 9781108403863

This monograph offers with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama'at - a transnational Islamic missionary circulation that has its origins within the reformist culture that emerged in India within the mid-nineteenth century - within the Gambia long ago decade. It explores how a stream that originated in South Asia may entice the neighborhood Muslim inhabitants - early life and girls particularly - in a West African surroundings. via recording the biographical narratives of 5 Gambian Tablighis, the ebook presents an figuring out of the ambiguities and contradictions children are faced with of their (re)negotiation of Muslim id. jointly those narratives shape an image of the way Gambian adolescence pass approximately their lives in the framework of neoliberal reforms and renegotiated parameters trained by means of the Tablighi version of ways to be a 'true' Muslim, that's interpreted as a believer who's in a position to reconcile his or her religion with a contemporary lifestyle.

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