Isma'ili modern : globalization and identity in a Muslim community /
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 regi...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Chapel Hill, N.C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Serija: | Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807899458_steinberg |
Sadržaj:
- 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.