Pious publicity, moral ambivalence and the making of religious authority in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan.
Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat, believe that Muslims have abandoned 'religion' (din) for 'the world' (dunya) and this has thrust the world into a state of moral chaos (fitna). The only way to draw Muslims to Islamic practice, they...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 568 - 584 |
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