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Isma'ili modern : globalization and identity in a Muslim community / Jonah Steinberg.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic civilization & Muslim networksPublication details: Chapel Hill : North Carolina Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780807899458
  • 0807899453
  • 9781469603728
  • 1469603721
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Isma'ili modern.DDC classification:
  • 297.8/2209 22
LOC classification:
  • BP195.I8 S735 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: Beyond territoriality -- Antecedents and precursors : the historical contexts of Ismaʻili globalization -- Fluid cartographies : Ismaʻili institutions in global context -- Universalizing Ismaʻilism : institutionalities of devotion and regimes of standardization -- Into the fold : Himalayan borderlands and Ismaʻili modernity -- Living globality : local modes of transnational experience -- Conclusion: Decoding globality : modern Ismaʻilism and the institutional encounter.
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  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: This title explores how Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)360669

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Beyond territoriality -- Antecedents and precursors : the historical contexts of Ismaʻili globalization -- Fluid cartographies : Ismaʻili institutions in global context -- Universalizing Ismaʻilism : institutionalities of devotion and regimes of standardization -- Into the fold : Himalayan borderlands and Ismaʻili modernity -- Living globality : local modes of transnational experience -- Conclusion: Decoding globality : modern Ismaʻilism and the institutional encounter.

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This title explores how Isma'ili Muslims, a major sect of Shi'i Islam, form a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization.