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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinberg, Jonah
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807899458_steinberg