Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality - Couverture souple

Khoja-Moolji, Shenila

 
9780197642030: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality
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ISBN 10 : 0197642039 ISBN 13 : 9780197642030
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2023

Synopsis

Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women's critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history.

Rebuilding Community tells the story of how Ismaili Muslim women who fled East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s recreated religious community (jamat) in North America. Drawing on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts, Khoja-Moolji illuminates the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Khoja-Moolji situates these activities within the framework of ethical norms that more broadly define and sustain the Ismaili sociality. Jamat--and religious community more generally--is not a given, but an ethical relation that is maintained daily and intergenerationally through everyday acts of care. By emphasizing women's care work in producing relationality and repairing trauma, Khoja-Moolji disrupts the conventional articulation of displaced people as dependent subjects.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia and Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197642039
ISBN 13 
9780197642030
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
280
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ISBN 10 :  0197642020 ISBN 13 :  9780197642023
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2023
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