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Announcing the first fall 2024 book event on South Asia-related topics held by Dartmouth College. 

Conversations on South Asia Series  

Arsalan Khan, “The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan”, Oct. 1st, 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM (EST). 

The South Asia Collective at Dartmouth College is excited to share the first event of our fall Conversations on South Asia series, a book panel discussion 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.

📚 Book Spotlight: “The Promise of Piety: Islam and the Politics of Moral Order in Pakistan” by Arsalan Khan

📆 Date: October 1st, 2024

⏰ Time: 12:45 PM-2:00 PM EST

📍 Virtual Zoom 

💻 Register Here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kB4-x-G9TJiaK8yPOhpQ4A

🎙️Speaker

Arsalan Khan, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

🎙️Commentators

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

🎙️Moderator

Faiza Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, and Lecturer, Department of Religion

Sponsored by the Department of Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages (ASCL) and the Bodas Family Endowment for South Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. 

QR code (leads to registration form) on the poster.