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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Ismailism & Islam in Modern South Asia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity and crucial aspects of the historical forces that conditioned the development of the Muslim modern in late colonial South Asia. It traces the legal process that, since the 1860s, recast a Shia Imami identity for the Ismailis, and explicates the public career of Imam Aga Khan III amid heightened religious internationalism since the late-nineteenth century, the age of 'religious internationals'. It sheds light and elaborates on the enduring legacies of questions such as the Aga's understanding of colonial modernity, his ideas of India, restructured modalities of community governance and the evolution of Imamate-sponsored institutions, key strands in scholarship that characterized the development of the Muslim and Shia Ismaili modern, and Muslim universality vis-à-vis denominational particularities that often transcended the remits of the modular nation and state structure.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-87091-X

1-316-87095-2

1-316-65047-2

1-316-87099-5

1-316-87101-0

1-316-87105-3