Isma'ili modern : globalization and identity in a Muslim community / Jonah Steinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinberg, Jonah.

Series:

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ismailites--History.

Ismailites.

Shīʻah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : North Carolina Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Isma'ili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century global structures.Led by a charismatic European-based hereditary Imam, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, global Isma'ili organizations make a

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: Beyond Territoriality; ONE: Antecedents and Precursors: The Historical Contexts of Isma'ili Globalization; TWO: Fluid Cartographies: Isma'ili Institutions in Global Context; THREE: Universalizing Isma'ilism: Institutionalities of Devotion and Regimes of Standardization; FOUR: Into the Fold: Himalayan Borderlands and Isma'ili Modernity; FIVE: Living Globality: Local Modes of Transnational Experience; CONCLUSION: Decoding Globality: Modern Isma'ilism and the Institutional Encounter; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908840-1-5

979-88-9313-364-6

1-4696-0372-1

0-8078-9945-3

OCLC:

709552665