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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Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197642054
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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