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Isma'ili modern [[electronic resource] ] : globalization and identity in a Muslim community / / Jonah Steinberg



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Autore: Steinberg Jonah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Isma'ili modern [[electronic resource] ] : globalization and identity in a Muslim community / / Jonah Steinberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : North Carolina Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
Disciplina: 297.8/2209
Soggetto topico: Ismailites - History
Shīʻah
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Isma'ili modern  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0372-1
0-8078-9945-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459727503321
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Serie: Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.