Chapter One Introduction1.1 Background of the Research The Tablighi
Jamaat1.2 Previous Studies: General 1.3 Previous Studies:
Bangladesh and the UK 1.4 Summary of the Chapters Chapter Two
Islamic Reforms in Bangladesh2.1 Introduction2.2 Islamisation in
Bengal2.3 Bengal Muslim under Reform Movements2.4 Bangladesh and
Islam2.5 The Tablighi Jamaat and Dawah2.6 The Six Points of the
Tablighi Jamaat2.7 Conclusion Chapter Three Methodology3.1
Introduction3.2 Why Ethnographic Research?3.3 Multi sited
Ethnography: Field, Site, and Location What is Multi-sited
Ethnography?3.4 Introduction to the Field: Bangladesh and the UK
3.5 The Challenges of the Research3.6 Problem of the Researcher3.7
Conclusion Chapter Four Undertaking a Chilla: Becoming a Tablighi
Follower4.1 Getting into Dawah4.2 Finding a Chilla Group4.3 Chilla
in Nageswary4.4 A Day in the Roy Ganj Mosque4.5 Learning by Doing
Tashkili Gasht: the Case of Hasan Ali and Shukur Ali Ta'leem and
Mujakkera The Umumi Gasht Magrib bad Boyan (Religious Talk after
Magrib Prayer) Chapter Five Spiritual Journey within the Tablighi
Jamaat 5.1 Introduction5.2 Social Implication of Dawah:
Participation in Chilla Status, Authority, and Religious
Empowerment Community Engagement: Mosque Based Activities and
Social Entrepreneurs Transformation, Communitas and Chilla5.3 The
Transformation of Society Politics and the Tablighi Jamaat Heavens
Above and the Grave Below Two Cases5.4 ConclusionChapter Six Bishwa
Ijtema as a New Form of Islamic Pilgrimage6.1 Introduction6.2 The
Ijtema of the Tablighi Jamaat6.3 The Bishwa Ijtema in 2009 and
20106.4 The Ijtema and the Hajj: Comparison6.5 The Ijtema and
Visiting Shrines: Comparison6.6 Ijtema: a New Pilgrimage for the
Muslim6.7 ConclusionChapter Seven Reconfiguring Gender Relations7.1
Introduction7.2 Marriage in the Tablighi Jamaat7.3 The Tablighi
Jamaat and the Family7.4 Gender and the Tablighi Jamaat7.5
ConclusionChapter Eight Participation in a Weekly Gasht8.1 Getting
Involved in Dawah8.2 The Gasht at the Uthman Mosque8.3 Religious
Speech after the Magrib Prayer Chapter Nine Tablighi Jamaat in the
UK9.1 Introduction9.2 Muslims in the UK Bangladeshi in the UK9.3
Tablighi Jamaat Followers in the UK9.4 The Implications of the
Tablighi Jamaat in the UK A Mosque Oriented Community Educating
Children by Tablighi Initiatives The Tablighi Jamaat as a Guideline
for Islamic Life in Western Society Two Cases9.5 Conclusion Chapter
Ten Searching for a Global Identity10.1 Introduction10.2 Identity
Formation of the Tablighi Jamaat in the UK Why Identity is
Important Community, Identity, and the Tablighi Jamaat Shared
Tablighi Experience and Memory Transformation and Tablighi
Identity10.3 Conclusion Chapter Eleven Conclusion
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.
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