... communities. Unencumbered by accountability to Sufi lineages, Husain Tekri was—and remains—an ideal site for Jaora's nawabs to assert sovereignty. In the colonial period, the hybrid nature of Husain Tekri facilitated the development of a mutually beneficial exchange between members of Bombay's Khoja community...

...Shenila Khoja-Moolji In this article, I theorize the phenomenon of specific women being taken up periodically to represent the collectivity of Muslim women—and, relationally, reveal characteristics about the collectivity of Muslim men—by focusing specifically on the figure of Malala Yousafzai...

... with an Afghan named Hazrat Gul to transport arms through the port city. Their competitors in this trade were Khojas from British India, who were longer established in Gwadar and in the arms trade. Hazrat Gul had built up debts to a number of local traders that he could not repay and was ultimately pushed out...

... of the Royal Asiatic Society , 6 , 1, April: 29 –56. Khan , D. S. 1997 . Conversions and Shifting Identities. Ramdev Pir and the Ismailis in Rajasthan . Delhi: Manohar. Masselos , J. C. 1978 . “The Khojas of Bombay: The Defining of Formal Membership Criteria During the Nineteenth Century...

... (Présence Africaine, 2013). Shenila Khoja-­Moolji is a research fellow and doctoral Mamadou Diouf is a professor of African studies and candidate at Teachers College, Columbia Univer- history at MESAAS and the Department of History, sity. She...

... inheritances of colonial tized by their sustained regional investments to law. Shenila Khoja-­Moolji’s close reading “against multiple forms of social exclusion, they not only the grain” of the cowritten memoir of the cele- question dominant frameworks and their ef...

... half kept to himself. The owner of a donkey would receive 1/3 [of the booty]. . . . This is [also] confirmed by 97-year-old Khoja Kuli Nazar . . . , who himself participated in several alaman s. He himself had to give half of what he could amass during the raid in return of a camel. 19...

.... 11. Al-­Zahhar, Mudhakkirat, 23. A similarly positive picture is given of the later fairs [qa’imun bi-­anfusihim] as the Algerians are” (and all-­too-­short-­lived) attempt by ‘Ali Khoja (146 – 47). Thus the autonomy of the regency is 141 Dey, in 1817, to suppress the factional politics...

... of Hussain Tekri and yet dependent on the sponsorship of wealthy Khojas, a small, transnational, and immensely wealthy Shia community whose standing and power are deliberately distanced from any one nation-state; and third, the power and potential attributed to the miracle that occurred at Hussain Tekri...

... administrators. This all came to a head in the 1933 establishment of the first Islamic Republic of East Turkestan by revolutionary Turkestani nationalists, under the presidency of Khoja Niyaz Hajji. 48 Al-Khujandi criticized the revolutionaries, particularly Khoja Niyaz, portraying him as manipulable fool...

... in the 1982 Meerut riots was property. In subsequent riots in Baroda, even oth- criminal. In the riots several innocent persons were erwise peaceful communities like the Bohras, Khojas shot dead by the PAC. A Dr. Shabbir’s only son was and Memons have suffered greatly. shot dead before his eyes...

... has argued that “[tlhe most impor- fully suffered by all members of our race here100An tant effect of Asian political activity was to stimulate anonymous pan-Africanist observed: “[hlas the serious African a~arenessAfrican civil servants in coastal and necessary study of the Hindu-Khoja...

..., “The New Nomads,” Yale Review 86 22. As Peter Nazareth has noted, “Shamsi” is Vassan- sam Remtulla, “(Dis)placing Khojas: Forging Identi- (1998): 57, 51. ji’s fictional name for the Ismailia Muslim sect in East ties, Revitalizing Islam and Crafting Global Ismailism...

..., that of the Twelvers who believe in 12 imams, they believe in only seven imams. There are divided into two main branches: Khojas (followers of the Agha Khan, based in Karachi) and Bohras (disciples of the Dai Mutlaq based in Bombay). Cf. Farhad Daftary, The Ismailis: Their History and Doctrine, Cam- bridge...

... on the fact that the In the same framework, sects like the Khojas and Shiv Sena does not “act exclusively” and considers as the Bohras, considered the product of the conversion “Mumbaiite,” Maharashtrian, or Indian (this mobility of of “sons of the soil,” are objects, at least rhetorically, levels...