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Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality

Author :  Shenila Khoja-Moolji

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Country
Pakistan
Publisher
ILQA Publications, Pakistan
ISBN 9789696403319
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2025
Bib. Info 266p. Includes Index ; Bibliography
Categories Sociology/Culture Studies
Product Weight 400 gms.
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Rebuilding Community tells the story of Shia Ismaili Muslim women who recreated religious community (jamat) in the aftermath of successive displacements over the course of the twentieth century. Khoja-Moolji draws on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts to illuminate the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduced bonds of spiritual kinship in North America: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Theorizing a Shia Ismaili ethics of care, Khoja-Moolji argues that jamat-and religious community more generally is not a given but an ethical relation that must be maintained daily and intergenerationally through everyday acts of care.

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