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001403953 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674067707$$bDOI
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001403953 1001_ $$aPurohit, Teena.
001403953 24514 $$aThe Aga Khan case$$h[electronic resource] :$$breligion and identity in colonial India /$$cTeena Purohit.
001403953 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012.
001403953 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 183 p.)
001403953 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001403953 5050_ $$aPrehistories of the Ismaili sect in nineteenth-century Bombay -- Sectarian showdown in the Aga Khan case of 1866 -- Reading Satpanth against the judicial archive -- Comparative formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan sect -- Sect and secularism in the early nationalist period.
001403953 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
001403953 520__ $$aAn overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court's ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge's decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
001403953 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
001403953 60000 $$aAga Khan I,$$d1804-1881$$xTrials, litigation, etc.
001403953 650_0 $$aIsmailites$$xLegal status, laws, etc.$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y19th century.
001403953 650_0 $$aKhojahs$$xLegal status, laws, etc.$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y19th century.
001403953 650_0 $$aReligion and state$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y19th century.
001403953 650_0 $$aTithes (Islamic law)$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y19th century.
001403953 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aPurohit, Teena.$$tAga Khan case.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674066397$$w(DLC) 2012007917$$w(OCoLC)778245039
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