Reconfiguring Gender Relations

Abstract

The gender aspects of the Tablighi Jamaat have received some attention from Barbara Metcalf, who studied the movement mainly in Pakistan (Metcalf in Stanford Electron Hum Rev 5(1), 1996; Metcalf in Appropriating gender: women’s activism and politicized religion in South Asia, 1998; Metcalf in Travellers in faith: studies of the Tablīghī Jamā‘at as a transnational Islamic movement for faith renewal, 2000), and more recently from Marloes Janson, who looked at the movement in Gambia (Janson in J Islamic Stud 28:9–36, 2008, Janson in Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: the Tablighi Jamaat, CUP, Cambridge, 2014), Agnès de Féo, working mainly in Southeast Asia (Féo in World Religion Watch, 2009), and Jan Ali, working in Australia (Ali in Contemp Islam 5(3):225–247, 2011).