| Contents |
Colonial secularism and the making of scriptural traditionalism in British India -- Dawat as ritual of transcendence in an Islamic nation -- Islamic iconicity, moral responsibility, and the creation of a sacred hierarchy -- The ethics of hierarchy and the moral reproduction of congregational life -- Certain faith, the pious home, and the path to an Islamic future -- Pious authority in times of moral chaos -- Blasphemy politics and the ethical affordances of Islamic piety. |
| Abstract |
"Arsalan Khan offers an ethnography of the normative vision that drives Pakistani Muslim men from diverse social and economic backgrounds to participate in a transnational Islamic piety movement: Tablighi Jamaat. Khan examines how Tablighis constitute the domain of religion in ritual and semiotic practice, how they place an ethical commitment to hierarchy at the heart of religion, and how this, in turn, becomes the basis for restructuring domestic and political life."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Khan, Arsalan. Promise of piety. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501773563 |
| LCCN | 2023013391 |
| ISBN | 9781501773570 |
| ISBN | 9781501773525 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1501773526 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1501773577 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
