In Good Company

Women’s participation in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at, an Islamic reform movement launched in the 1920s that emphasizes personal piety, remains underexamined, impeded by the organization’s strict pardāh requirements but also by the popular perception that it is a body of male preachers. While there is n...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:bef13c7cb6f24ee8a725ea47719313f92021-12-02T19:22:46ZIn Good Company10.35632/ajis.v35i3.1032690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/bef13c7cb6f24ee8a725ea47719313f92018-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/103https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Women’s participation in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at, an Islamic reform movement launched in the 1920s that emphasizes personal piety, remains underexamined, impeded by the organization’s strict pardāh requirements but also by the popular perception that it is a body of male preachers. While there is no indication that its founder wanted women to play an active role in his movement, women were a part of the Jamāt a few decades later. This paper points to important twentieth-century shifts in the socio-economic configuration in north India that paved the way for women’s inclusion in the Jamāt. The mode of piety that evolved in this period was better suited to handle the stresses of the emerging salaried class, and it upheld the pious wife as an ideal companion for the pious man, underplaying the role of teachers and spiritual masters. This paper argues that the possibility of social and geographic mobility that changed the structure of the household and the texture of local communities also formulated a mode of piety that enabled women to perform da‘wā. Darakhshan Haroon KhanInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticlePietyConjugalityThanawiTablighi JamaatIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 35, Iss 3 (2018)
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topic Piety
Conjugality
Thanawi
Tablighi Jamaat
Islam
BP1-253
spellingShingle Piety
Conjugality
Thanawi
Tablighi Jamaat
Islam
BP1-253
Darakhshan Haroon Khan
In Good Company
description Women’s participation in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at, an Islamic reform movement launched in the 1920s that emphasizes personal piety, remains underexamined, impeded by the organization’s strict pardāh requirements but also by the popular perception that it is a body of male preachers. While there is no indication that its founder wanted women to play an active role in his movement, women were a part of the Jamāt a few decades later. This paper points to important twentieth-century shifts in the socio-economic configuration in north India that paved the way for women’s inclusion in the Jamāt. The mode of piety that evolved in this period was better suited to handle the stresses of the emerging salaried class, and it upheld the pious wife as an ideal companion for the pious man, underplaying the role of teachers and spiritual masters. This paper argues that the possibility of social and geographic mobility that changed the structure of the household and the texture of local communities also formulated a mode of piety that enabled women to perform da‘wā.
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