Farish A. Noor is Professor of Political History at the Faculty of Social Science FOSS, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia UIII. His work has focused on 19th century colonial Southeast Asia, looking at the modalities of racialised colonial-capitalism in the region. His recent works include Peta dan Kekuasaan (Mapping and Power, Lestari Hikmah, 2025), Data-Collecting in 19th Century Colonial Southeast Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and America's Encounters with Southeast Asia 1800-1900 (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).

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• Introduction: Brother Bismillah and My Introduction to the Tablighi Jama’at, I. At Home Across the Sea: The Arrival of the Tablighi Jama’at and Its Spread Across Southeast Asia, II. Learning to Be: The Foundational Literature of the Tablighi Jama’at and Its Role in Defining the Movement, III. Learning on the March: The Portable, Reader-friendly Literature of the Tablighi Jama’at and Its Role in the Self-identification and Reproduction of the Movement, IV. The Stories We Tell: The Conversion Narratives of the Tablighi Jama’at and the Internalisation of Tablighi Identity, V. Learning to Be Tablighi: The Rule-governed World of the Tablighi and the Disciplining of the Self, VI. How We Look and What We Are: The Tablighi Jama’at Framed in the Eyes of Others, VII. Finally, a Summing Up: The Tablighi Jama’at as the Complex Thing That It Is, Notes, Bibliography, Index