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Ismailism and Islam in modern South Asia : community and identity in the age of religious internationals /

"Explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in modern South Asia and traces the genealogies of conceptual categories and institutions that conditioned the historical process"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mukherjee, Soumen (Assistant Professor) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Ismailites > South Asia.
Shīʻah > South Asia.
Shiites > South Asia.
Table of Contents:
  • The Khoja Ismailis and legal polemics: religion and customs in nineteenth century Bombay
  • The Howardian moment: morality, Aryanism, and scholarship
  • Pan-Islamism and an Asiatic spirit: postnational subjectivities in an age of 'transition'
  • The Hazir Imam, Ismailism, and Islam in late colonial South Asia
  • The importance of being Ismaili: religious normativity and the Ismaili International in the age of global assemblages.