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Author Mukherjee, Soumen (Assistant Professor), author.

Title Ismailism and Islam in modern South Asia : community and identity in the age of religious internationals / Soumen Mukherjee
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages)
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
Summary "Explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in modern South Asia and traces the genealogies of conceptual categories and institutions that conditioned the historical process"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ismailites -- South Asia
Shīʿah -- South Asia
Shiites -- South Asia
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Ismailites
Shīʻah
Shiites
South Asia
Form Electronic book
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