Mullahs on the Mainframe : Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras - Jonah Blank

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Mullahs on the Mainframe

Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras

By: Jonah Blank

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Paperback | 13 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress, and practice with secular education, relative gender equality, and Internet use, this community serves as a surprising reminder that the central values of "modernity" are hardly limited to the West.

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"This is a groundbreaking work.... This brilliant study is both academically rigorous and a welcome introduction to the real success of this Islamic community in the modern world. Highly recommended." - Library Journal; "[A] model piece of scholarship, the kind of work you want to give to younger scholars so as to awaken them to the wonders and the variety of the world.... Here is one brilliant venture by a young, superbly trained American social scientist who delves into the world of Indian Muslims, and renders that world with artistry, precision, and detail." - Fouad Ajami, author of Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey; "[Blank's] book should be read for his portrait of a group trying to carve out a place for their practices while maintaining peaceful relations with religious activists and secularists alike, a delicate tightrope act that he chronicles well." - John R. Bowen, Washington Post Book World

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Miscellaneous Items

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Ethnography	p. 11
Historical Background: The Roots of the Faith	p. 13
Rituals of a Daudi Bohra Life	p. 53
Rituals of the Daudi Bohra Year	p. 82
Bohra Domestic Life: Kinship, Sex, and the Status of Women	p. 111
Qasr-e Ali: The Royals	p. 134
Analysis	p. 157
Maintenance of Spiritual and Political Hegemony	p. 159
Specifics of Orthopraxy: Dress and Economics	p. 184
Education	p. 207
Dissidents and Control	p. 229
Conclusion	p. 258
Appendixes	p. 289
Line of Musta'li Tayyibi Ismaili Imams	p. 289
Line of Daudi Bohra Da'is	p. 290
Questionnaire Used for Issuing Certificates of Orthopraxy	p. 292
Analysis of Gulshan-e Malumat Data	p. 296
Kinship Ties of the Daudi Bohra Da'is	p. 299
Bibliographical Discussion	p. 301
Notes	p. 309
Glossary	p. 357
Bibliography	p. 369
Index	p. 393
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