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

Author
Steinberg, Jonah
Published
Chapel Hill : North Carolina Press, [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Introduction: Beyond territoriality -- Antecedents and precursors : the historical contexts of Ismaʻili globalization -- Fluid cartographies : Ismaʻili institutions in global context -- Universalizing Ismaʻilism : institutionalities of devotion and regimes of standardization -- Into the fold : Himalayan borderlands and Ismaʻili modernity -- Living globality : local modes of transnational experience -- Conclusion: Decoding globality : modern Ismaʻilism and the institutional encounter.
Summary
This title explores how Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization.
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ISBN
9780807899458 (electronic bk.)
0807899453 (electronic bk.)
9781469603728 (electronic bk.)
1469603721 (electronic bk.)
9780807834077
0807834076
9780807871652
0807871656
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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