Mullahs on the Mainframe
Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras
Published on 31. May 2024
403 pages
978-0-226-83641-6 (ISBN)
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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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Jonah Blank, an anthropologist, is South Asia policy advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and author of
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana through India. He has taught anthropology at Harvard University, covered India and Pakistan as a senior editor of
U.S. News and World Report, provided commentary for the BBC, and written for publications ranging from the
New Yorker to Foreign Affairs.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Ethnography
- Chapter One. Historical Background: The Roots of the Faith
- Chapter Two. Rituals of a Daudi Bohra Life
- Chapter Three. Rituals of the Daudi Bohra Year
- Chapter Four. Bohra Domestic Life: Kinship, Sex, and the Status of Women
- Chapter Five. Qasr-e Ali: The Royals
- Part II. Analysis
- Chapter Six. Maintenance of Spiritual and Political Hegemony
- Chapter Seven. Specifics of Orthopraxy: Dress and Economics
- Chapter Eight. Education
- Chapter Nine. Dissidents and Control
- Chapter Ten. 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
- Bibliographical Discussion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
