Book contents
- Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‛at
- Series page
- Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‛at
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Language and Quotations from Interviews
- Glossary
- 1 ‘Life Is a Test, the Hereafter Is the Best’
- 2 ‘Welcome to the Smiling Coast’: Muslim Politics in the Gambia
- 3 The Global Meets the Local: The Tablighi Jama‘at Contextualised
- 4 Back to the Ghetto
- 5 A Jihad for Purity
- 6 Learning to Be a Good Muslim Woman
- 7 Male Wives and Female Husbands
- 8 Hungry for Knowledge
- 9 ‘Muslims Are Sleeping and We Have to Wake Them Up’
- References
- Index
1 - ‘Life Is a Test, the Hereafter Is the Best’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2013
- Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‛at
- Series page
- Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‛at
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Language and Quotations from Interviews
- Glossary
- 1 ‘Life Is a Test, the Hereafter Is the Best’
- 2 ‘Welcome to the Smiling Coast’: Muslim Politics in the Gambia
- 3 The Global Meets the Local: The Tablighi Jama‘at Contextualised
- 4 Back to the Ghetto
- 5 A Jihad for Purity
- 6 Learning to Be a Good Muslim Woman
- 7 Male Wives and Female Husbands
- 8 Hungry for Knowledge
- 9 ‘Muslims Are Sleeping and We Have to Wake Them Up’
- References
- Index
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- Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the GambiaThe Tablighi Jama'at, pp. 1 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013