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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukherjee, Soumen (Assistant Professor), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ismailites--South Asia.

Ismailites.

Shīʻah--South Asia.

Shīʻah.

Shiites--South Asia.

Shiites.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107154087

1107154081

OCLC:

973809848