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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818223903321

Autore

Steinberg Jonah

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

979-88-9313-364-6

1-4696-0372-1

0-8078-9945-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Disciplina

297.8/2209

297.82209

Soggetti

Ismailites - History

Shīʻah

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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