Mullahs on the Mainframe
Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras
426 pages, halftones gallery 6 x 9
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2001
Cloth $54.00
ISBN: 9780226056760
Published April 2001
Not for sale in Pakistan
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226056777
Published March 2002
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I - Ethnography 1. Historical Background: The Roots of the Faith 2. Rituals of a Daudi Bohra Life 3. Rituals of the Daudi Bohra Year 4. Bohra Domestic Life: Kinship, Sex, and the Status of Women 5. Qasr-e Ali: The Royals Part II - Analysis 6. Maintenance of Spiritual and Political Hegemony 7. Specifics of Orthopraxy: Dress and Economics 8. Education 9. Dissidents and Control 10. Conclusion Appendixes 1. Line of Musta'li Tayyibi Ismaili Imams 2. Line of Daudi Bohra Da'is 3. Questionnaire Used for Issuing Certificates of Orthopraxy 4. Analysis of Gulshan-e Malumat Data 5. Kinship Ties of the Daudi Bohra Da'is Bibliographic Discussion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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