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Tablighi Jamaat and the Quest for the London Mega Mosque

Continuity and Change

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Zacharias P. Pieri
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Part of the book series: The Modern Muslim World (MMUS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 1-10

  3. Theoretical and Analytical Framework: Understanding the Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Framing the Context

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 13-28

  4. Conceptualizing Tablighi Jamaat

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. Conceiving Tablighi Jamaat

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 31-47

    3. Tablighi Jamaat: Organization, Structure, and Methods

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 49-64

  5. The Quest for the London Mega Mosque

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Tablighis in Britain: Adapting to Shifting Contexts

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 67-84

    3. Tablighi Jamaat in Transition: 2005–2010

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 85-107

    4. Tablighi Jamaat and the Politics of Adaptation

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 109-129

  6. The Worldly Unworldliness of Tablighi Jamaat

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Tablighi Jamaat From Within

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 133-155

    3. Conclusions

      • Zacharias P. Pieri
      Pages 157-161

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 163-194
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

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