Soumen Mukherjee

Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia

Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge-Hitachi
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781107154087
• ISBN-10: 1107154081
• Artikelnr.: 47616811

Autorenporträt

Soumen Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata. His research interests are in the fields of socio-religious and intellectual history of modern South Asia, with particular focus on questions of identity, religious normativity and social service, sacred travels and sacred space, and on the intersection of religious traditions and scientism. He is also interested in histories of South Asian diasporas and religious networks on the Indian Ocean, and in understanding religious and cultural encounters on the Himalayan borderlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Note on transliteration
Introduction
1. The Khoja Ismailis and legal polemics: religion and customs in nineteenth-century Bombay
2. The Howardian moment: morality, Aryanism and scholarship
3. Pan-Islamism and an Asiatic spirit: postnational subjectivities in an age of 'transition'
4. The Hazir Imam, Ismailism and Islam in late Colonial South Asia
5. The importance of being Ismaili: religious normativity and the Ismaili International in the age of global assemblages
Concluding reflections
Select bibliography.