Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia - Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in late colonial South Asia. Zusammenfassung This book explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity and crucial aspects of the historical forces that conditioned the development of the Muslim modern in late colonial South Asia! while remaining sensitized to the transregional and internationalist dimensions of this trajectory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Soumen Mukherjee, Soumen (Presidency University Mukherjee, Mukherjee Soumen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107154087
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15408-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, RELIGION / Islam / History, Islamic Studies, South East Asia, History of Religion, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, HISTORY / Islamic