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Ismailism and Islam in modern South Asia : community and identity in the age of religious internationals
Title
Ismailism and Islam in modern South Asia : community and identity in the age of religious internationals / Soumen Mukherjee.
ISBN
9781107154087
1107154081
Publication
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xii, 203 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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