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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Framing the Context 3. Conceiving Tablighi Jamaat 4. Tablighi Jamaat: Organization, Structure and Methods 5. Tablighis in Britain: Adapting to Shifting Contexts 6. Tablighi Jamaat in Transition 2005 2010 7. Tablighi Jamaat and the Politics of Adaptation 8. Tablighi Jamaat from Within 9. Conclusions