03031nam 2200637 a 450 991045972750332120200520144314.01-4696-0372-10-8078-9945-3(CKB)2670000000077367(EBL)673642(OCoLC)709552665(SSID)ssj0000470519(PQKBManifestationID)11307608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470519(PQKBWorkID)10413103(PQKB)10169715(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245922(MiAaPQ)EBC673642(OCoLC)711000593(MdBmJHUP)muse23533(Au-PeEL)EBL673642(CaPaEBR)ebr10456378(CaONFJC)MIL929754(EXLCZ)99267000000007736720100716d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIsma'ili modern[electronic resource] globalization and identity in a Muslim community /Jonah SteinbergChapel Hill [N.C.] North Carolina Press20111 online resource (252 p.)Islamic civilization and Muslim networksDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-7165-6 0-8078-3407-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThe 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 aIslamic civilization & Muslim networks.IsmailitesHistoryShīʻahElectronic books.IsmailitesHistory.Shīʻah.297.8/2209Steinberg Jonah1049698MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459727503321Isma'ili modern2478950UNINA