Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks) [Paperback]
Jonah Steinberg (Author)
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"This is a fascinating and unrivaled account of transnational Isma'ilism. Steinberg admirably brings together globalization theories and fascinating ethnographic material to produce a rich narrative of this interesting community. It will be the most important account of contemporary Isma'ilism yet published."
-Faisal Devji, author of The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics
Product Description
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 regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Isma'ili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century global structures.
Led by a charismatic European-based hereditary Imam, Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, global Isma'ili organizations make available an astonishing array of services--social, economic, political, and religious--to some three to five million subjects stretching from Afghanistan to England, from Pakistan to Tanzania. Steinberg argues that this intricate and highly integrated network enables a new kind of shared identity and citizenship, one that goes well beyond the sense of community maintained by other diasporic populations. Of note in this process is the rapid assimilation in the postcolonial period of once-isolated societies into the intensively centralized Isma'ili structure. Also remarkable is the Isma'ilis' self-presentation, contrary to common characterizations of Islam in the mass media, as a Muslim society that is broadly sympathetic to capitalist systems, opposed to fundamentalism, and distinctly modern in orientation. Steinberg's unique journey into remote mountain regions highlights today's rapidly shifting meanings of citizenship, faith, and identity and reveals their global scale.
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Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Comm
We are thrilled to announce the publication of
ISMAILIS|A Celebration of Diversity
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This unique book of photography captures the beauty and diversity of Ismaili Muslims around the world. Most of the images in this book were entries in the first ever International Ismaili Photography Competition.
More than 1,000 entries were received from Ismailis all over the globe. Every photo told a story; participants demonstrated creativity and varying skill levels. We thank all participants for their effort and enthusiasm.
The net proceeds from the sales of this book will go to the Aga Khan Foundation Canada to support Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) projects. AKDN is a group of development agencies with mandates that include health, education, architecture, the environment, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalization of historic cities. AKDN agencies conduct their programs without regard to faith, origin or gender. www.akfc.ca
ISMAILIS|A Celebration of Diversity
http://www.ismglobalphotos.com/
This unique book of photography captures the beauty and diversity of Ismaili Muslims around the world. Most of the images in this book were entries in the first ever International Ismaili Photography Competition.
More than 1,000 entries were received from Ismailis all over the globe. Every photo told a story; participants demonstrated creativity and varying skill levels. We thank all participants for their effort and enthusiasm.
The net proceeds from the sales of this book will go to the Aga Khan Foundation Canada to support Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) projects. AKDN is a group of development agencies with mandates that include health, education, architecture, the environment, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalization of historic cities. AKDN agencies conduct their programs without regard to faith, origin or gender. www.akfc.ca