Overview
- Offers the fist ever scholarly account of Tabligh Jama'at, the world's largest apolitical Islamic revivalist movement
- Provides a sociological framework for understanding the methods and activities of Tabligh Jama'at
- Studies the experience of individual members as well the movement as a whole
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In this book we study The Tabligh Jama’at, an Islamic revivalist movement which, through participation in its preaching tours, provides satisfaction to individuals experiencing the crisis of modernity. Preaching tours enable Muslims to become workers for Allah and involved in the renewal of Allah’s world. We explore the ideological underpinning of preaching and working for Allah through the application of Frame Theory. Through an analytic framework comprising framing tasks and framing processes we unpack how the ideas of Islamic revivalism found in key Tabligh Jama’at written and oral texts – the Faza’il-e-A’maal and bayans – are packaged and communicated in such a way as to attract individuals to participate in preaching tours. The book concludes that working for Allah provides Muslims with meaning, social solidarity, and satisfaction which modernity has failed to provide them. This book will appeal to academics, researchers, journalists, policy-makers, and research students interested in or working on Islamic revivalist movements.
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Reviews
“This book is an important contribution to the literature on Tabligh Jama’at, one of the most important Islamic revivalist movements of the modern period. The authors provide an excellent analysis of the context in which the Jama’at emerged, its key ideas and approaches to preaching, and the resonance of its ideas and practices among Muslims. One of the most interesting contributions of this book is the application of frame theory to the study of the Jama’at, thus enriching our understanding of why the Jama’at is so effective in attracting many to its brand of Islamic revivalism. This is a timely, well-researched and highly readable work, a must-read for scholars and students of contemporary Islamic thought and movements.”
—Professor Abdullah Saeed, Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia
“This is not the first publication on the Tabligh Jama’at, but certainly new in its approach. The authors offer a fresh perspective on the study of Islamic movements in the age of digital globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the analysis of material written by the movement, they critically take issue with the implicit motivation of much of the work on revivalist movements in the Islamic world, namely to understand “how dangerous they are for the rest of the world”. The authors ask why Tabligh Jama’at is attractive to (potential) followers. They refute the common assumption that followers are deluded by leaders and lured into the movement with misleading information and false expectations. As the authors show, followers’ choices are much more thought-through than is often assumed.”
—Professor Abdullah Saeed, Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies & Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia
“This is not the first publication on the Tabligh Jama’at, but certainly new in its approach. The authors offer a fresh perspective on the study of Islamic movements in the age of digital globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and the analysis of material written by the movement, they critically take issue with the implicit motivation of much of the work on revivalist movements in the Islamic world, namely to understand “how dangerous they are for the rest of the world”. The authors ask why Tabligh Jama’at is attractive to (potential) followers. They refute the common assumption that followers are deluded by leaders and lured into the movement with misleading information and false expectations. As the authors show, followers’ choices are much more thought-through than is often assumed.”
—J. Thijl Sunier, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
“This book offers rare insights into the workings of Islamic revivalism, usingTabligh Jama‘at as a case study. By applying Frame Theory, the authors produce a conceptually engaging and empirically rich study that probes into the internal dynamics of revivalism and opens up important avenues for further research. This is an important contribution to the fields of sociology of religion and Islamic studies.”—Shahram Akbarzadeh, Research Professor of Middle East & Central Asian Politics, Deakin University, Australia
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jan A. Ali is Senior Lecturer in Islam and Modernity in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Rizwan Sahib is a doctoral student in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Sociological Study of the Tabligh Jama’at
Book Subtitle: Working for Allah
Authors: Jan A. Ali, Rizwan Sahib
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98943-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98942-2Published: 28 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98943-9Published: 27 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Islam, Religion and Psychology