Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals
This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Mukherjee, Soumen: Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia : Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2017. - 9781107154087 |
| Summary: | This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia Cover -- Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- The postnational, the denationalized and the cosmopolitan -- Religious internationals and cosmopolitanism: The religious, the secular and Ismaili subjectivity -- Religious authority and the question of articulation -- Outline of chapters -- Endnotes -- 1 The Khoja Ismailis and Legal Polemics: Religion and Customs in Nineteenth Century Bombay -- The broad contours of the colonial episteme -- Unravelling religious attitudes -- Antinomies of socio-religious standardizations: Customs and religious traditions -- A question of commonalities: Social base, vocabularies and modalities -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 2 The Howardian Moment: Morality, Aryanism and Scholarship -- The historical backdrop -- The reformist rhetoric -- The Defendants' response I: The moral claims of the Shia -- The Defendants' response II: Morality and the 'Aryan' Ismailis -- Conceptualizing an epistemological entity: Production and institutionalization of knowledge -- Conclusion -- Endnote -- 3 Pan-Islamism and an Asiatic Spirit: Postnational Subjectivities in an Age of 'Transition' -- Conceptualizing 'transition': Community development and national efficiency -- India beyond India: 'Transition' and postnational sensibilities -- Pan-Islamism and the quest for an Asiatic ethos: 'Spiritual force', reason and an ethical community -- A question of reception -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 4 The Hazir Imam, Ismailism and Islam in Late Colonial South Asia -- On leadership and languages of identification -- Ecumenism and the liberal quest I: Reform and identity in Bombay -- Ecumenism and the liberal quest II: Aga Khan III and a Muslim identity in South Asia -- Conclusion -- Endnotes 5 The Importance of Being Ismaili: Religious Normativity and the Ismaili International in the Age of Global Assemblages -- Conferring on normativity: Ismailism and Islam in the twentieth century -- Carriers of normativity: Visions and institutions -- Conceptualizing an Ismaili international -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Concluding Reflections -- Endnotes -- Select Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- A. Manuscripts and Archival Documents -- The British Library -- The Cambridge University Library -- Archives of the League of Nations, The United Nations Archives, Geneva -- Maharashtra State Archives -- National Archives of India -- The Norwegian Nobel Institute -- The Parliamentary Archives of the United Kingdom -- Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts (The Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Ministry, Germany) -- B. Published Primary Sources (official publications, memoirs, speeches, publications of individuals and organizations etc.) -- C. Law Cases and Judgements -- Printed Secondary Works, Dissertations and Theses -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1316871010 |