The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan

Author/Contributor(s):	Khan, Arsalan
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	02/15/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Arsalan Khan offers an ethnography of the normative vision that drives Pakistani Muslim men from diverse social and economic backgrounds to participate in a transnational Islamic piety movement: Tablighi Jamaat. Khan examines how Tablighis constitute the domain of religion in ritual and semiotic practice, how they place an ethical commitment to hierarchy at the heart of religion, and how this, in turn, becomes the basis for restructuring domestic and political life."--