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Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‘at 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 originated in South Asia could appeal to the localMuslimpopulation–youthandwomeninparticular–inaWest Africansetting.ByrecordingthebiographicalnarrativesoffiveGambian Tablighis, the book provides an understanding of the ambiguities and contradictionsyoungpeopleareconfrontedwithintheir(re)negotiation of Muslim identity. Together these narratives form a picture of how Gambianyouthgoabouttheirliveswithintheframeworkofneo-liberal reforms and renegotiated parameters informed by the Tablighi model ofhowtobea‘true’Muslim,whichisinterpretedasabelieverwhois abletoreconcilehisorherfaithwithamodernlifestyle. Marloes Janson is a lecturer in anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and was previously a researcher at the Zentrum Moderner Orient(CentreforModernOrientalStudies)inBerlin,Germany.She is the book reviews editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa. Janson has conducted extensive ethnographic field research in the Gambia, Senegal,andNigeria.ShereceivedherPhDfromLeidenUniversity. THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN LIBRARY GeneralEditors j.d.y.peel,SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon deborahjames,LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience TheInternationalAfricanLibraryisamajormonographseriesfromthe InternationalAfricanInstituteandcomplementsitsquarterlyperiodical Africa,thepremierjournalinthefieldofAfricanstudies.Theoretically informed and culturally sensitive ethnographies and studies of social relations‘ontheground’havelongbeencentraltotheInstitute’spub- licationsprogramme.TheIALincludesworksfocusedondevelopment, especiallyonthelinkagesbetweenthelocalandnationallevelsofsociety; studiesinthesocialandenvironmentalsciences;andhistoricalstudies withsocial,cultural,andinterdisciplinarydimensions. Foralistoftitlespublishedintheseries,pleaseseetheendofthebook. Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‘at Marloes Janson SchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudies,UniversityofLondon International African Institute, London and 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107040571 (cid:2)C MarloesJanson2014 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2014 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Janson,Marloes. Islam,youth,andmodernityintheGambia:theTablighiJama‘at/Marloes Janson. pagescm.–(TheinternationalAfricanlibrary) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-04057-1(hardback) 1.TablighiJama‘at. 2.Islam–Gambia. 3.Islam–Missions. 4.Muslim youth–Gambia. 5.Youthmovements–Gambia. I.Title. BP170.85.J37 2013 297.6ʹ5096651–dc23 2013027547 ISBN978-1-107-04057-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtoin thispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis, orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. To my mother In memory of my father
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