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Jonah Blank

Mullahs on the Mainframe

Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras

426 pages, halftones gallery  6 x 9  © 2001

Cloth $54.00

ISBN: 9780226056760   Published April 2001
Not for sale in Pakistan

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226056777   Published March 2002
Not for sale in Pakistan

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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
Subjects



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