Religious Authority, Popular Preaching and the Dialectic of Structure-Agency in an Islamic Revivalist Movement: The Case of Maulana Tariq Jamil and the Tablighi Jama'at

This article provides the first academic analysis of the popular Pakistani Islamic scholar and Urdu-speaking preacher Maulana Tariq Jamil. Drawing on years of ethnographic study of the Tablighi Jama’at, the revivalist movement to which Jamil belongs, as well as content analysis of dozens of his reco...

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Main Author: Timol, Riyaz (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B popular preachers
B da’wa
B Islamic televangelists
B Tablighi Jama’at
B Maulana Tariq Jamil
B Raiwind
B religious authority
B Deoband
B Digital Religion
B Ulama
B Islam in Pakistan
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