Table of Contents

Chapter One Introduction.- Chapter Two Islamic Reforms in Bangladesh.- Chapter Three Methodology.- Chapter Four Undertaking a Chilla: Becoming a Tablighi Follower.- Chapter Five Spiritual Journey within the Tablighi Jamaat.- Chapter Six Bishwa Ijtema as a New Form of Islamic Pilgrimage.- Chapter Seven Reconfiguring Gender Relations.- Chapter Eight Participation in a Weekly Gasht.- Chapter Nine Tablighi Jamaat in the UK.- Chapter Ten Searching for a Global Identity.- Chapter Eleven Conclusion.

About the Author

​Bulbul Siddiqi is an anthropologist, specialising in the Islamic movement in South Asia and the UK, citizenship and identities, development and public health. After undergraduate and graduate studies in anthropology in Bangladesh, he completed his MA in Global Citizenship, Identities and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham in 2007 and his PhD in Anthropology of Religion at Cardiff University in 2014 researching the Tablighi Jamaat in the UK and Bangladesh.  His ethnographic fieldwork has included several research trips to Bangladesh and the UK. He is now working as an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at North South University, Bangladesh.