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Rebuilding community : displaced women and the making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim sociality / Shenila Khoja-Moolji.

Author/creator Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982-
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Descriptionxi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion
Subject(s)
Contents 1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community -- 2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970 -- Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972 -- 3. Fostering Sacred Spaces -- 4. Storying Divine Intervention -- 5. Culinary Placemaking -- 6. Placemaking in the Second Generation -- 7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract "This book uncovers the stories of care, help, and support that dozens of Ismaili Muslim women have extended to coreligionists against the dislocating effects of wars and forced migration. Focusing on two cohorts of women (one who fled East Pakistan in the early 1970s due to civil war, and the other who was forced to leave East Africa during the same time, when Idi Amin expelled Asians from Uganda and anti-Asian sentiments intensified in Kenya and Tanzania), it tells the tale of how they began the individual and collective work of remaking religious community in the diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023006056
ISBN9780197642030 (paperback)
ISBN9780197642023 (hardback)
ISBN(epub)

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