Tuesday, Oct 1| 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM ET | Zoom
Register to attend: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kB4-x-G9TJiaK8yPOhpQ4A
You are formally invited to an insightful Zoom book event featuring author Arsalan Khan. In his new book, The Promise of Piety, Khan explores the fervent dedication to face-to-face preaching (dawat) among Pakistani Tablighis, practitioners of the transnational Islamic piety movement, the Tablighi Jamaat. This movement argues that Muslims have forsaken their religious obligations for worldly distractions, leading to a moral crisis manifesting in fractured familial, national, and global Islamic relationships. The Tablighis assert that dawat is the sacred means to restore Islamic virtue and bring Muslims back to their faith. Khan delves into how this form of pious relationality, embedded in both ritual and everyday practice, aims to transform private and public life, while also examining the potential and limits of creating an Islamic moral order in the face of political fragmentation and violence in postcolonial Pakistan.
Event Details:
Date: October 1st, 2024
Time: 12:45 PM-2:00 PM
Virtual Webinar
Register Here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kB4-x-G9TJiaK8yPOhpQ4A
Arsalan Khan, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Chair of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Attiya Ahmad, Associate Professor, Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
Faiza Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Department of Religion
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to register today and join us for a captivating discussion with Arsalan Khan. 
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Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College.