Adjustment of Muallaf (Converted Islam Women) in Tablighi Jamaat

Abstract

Research Paper on Adjustments of Muallaf (Converted Islam Women) Tablighi Jamaat. The study is based on the women’s own conversion adjustment narratives. The study focuses on 6 muallaf. It is therefore a qualitative case study The researcher used Narrative theory and Ad่justment theory to establish a research framework using both printed and other written materials, observation and in-depth interviews materials.

The research findings two patterns in the religious conversion of these women 1. by their own will. Media, educational materials, community learning and individual modeling play important roles in this transformation. This group of converted women typically continues to live their new religion for some time before eventually meeting and marrying a Muslim man with whom they start a new family. 2. as a part of the process of becoming married to a Muslim man. The adaptation to Islamic thought and life is guided by their loved one. Both groups of female converts acquired the basic beliefs of Islam through study of the religion’s teachings and they learned the practices of Islam through the people around them in their Islamic community and through the Center(s) of Islamic Studies. All of this took time as they adjusted to their social contexts and to the various situations. The backgrounds of each of the women had effects on adjustments that was apparent among Muallaf in Tablighi Jamaat group was their adjustments in manner of dress and their general styles of life were relatively strict that who had been trained by one of the religion’s reformist movements. At the same time, these female converts seek to maintain good relations with their natal families, even at the same time as to adjust themselves psychologically and seeking to establish deeper and stronger levels of faith through their involvement in the groups of Tablighi Jamaat and the mastura.