Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia

This monograph deals with the sweeping emergence of the Tablighi Jama''at - a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has its origins in the reformist tradition that emerged in India in the mid-nineteenth century - in the Gambia in the past decade. It explores how a movement that originated in South Asia could appeal to the local Muslim population - youth and women in particular - in a West...