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Publisher's Note: in matters of prayer, dress, and even avoidance of financial interest, they are highly conservative. At the same time, they eagerly adopt aspects of modern culture not in direct conflict with their core beliefs. They proudly send their children (boys and girls alike) abroad for education, exhibit greater gender equality than almost all communities of the Indian subcontinent, and have become Internet pioneers uniting members of the far-flung denomination into a worldwide cyber-congregation. Blank shows how a premodern clerical elite has reinvigorated its society's traditions--not by rejecting modernity, but by embracing it. In uncommonly clear language, he paints a vivid, surprising picture of one community that confounds preconceptions about fundamentalist Islam. Blank's book also suggests that many values Western triumphalists like to claim as their own are hardly limited to the West--and that 'modernity' is something far broader than a taste for sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.