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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (4): 1397–1400.
Published: 01 November 2008
...Thomas Gibson The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation . By Shafique N. Virani . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . xx , 301 pp. $65.00 (cloth). The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizam-u'd-Din Auliya . By Khaliq Ahmad Nizami . Delhi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 99–139.
Published: 01 February 2011
... fear negative repercussions should their real faith become known. Historically, the Shī‘a, whether Ithnā-‘asharī or Ismaili, have commonly dissimulated as Sunnīs, who form the dominant community. However, the Guptīs, who are followers of the Ismaili imam, and whose name means “secret” or “hidden ones...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 819–820.
Published: 01 August 1981
... experience. The difficulty lies not in the facts he recites, which are probably quite accurate, but in the historical mode of analysis he employs. This leads him to devote the first four chapters, almost half of the book, to the origins and doctrines of the Ismaili movement (of which the Bohras, like...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (4): 818–819.
Published: 01 August 1981
..., almost half of the book, to the origins and doctrines of the Ismaili movement (of which the Bohras, like the Khojas, are a branch), the policies of the Fatimid state in Egypt, and the migration of Ismaili missionaries to India, which resulted in the conversion of some middle-caste Hindu traders (Vohorwu...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 954–955.
Published: 01 November 1992
.... Asani ("The Ginan Literature of the Ismailis of Indo-Pakistan") responds to this concern by examining the uniquely South Asian genre of ginans, a type of Islamic poetry that is similar to Hindu padas, developed by the Nizari Ismailis to propagate Islam in the subcontinent. Peter Gaeffke ("Muslim...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 953–954.
Published: 01 November 1992
... needs of different religious communities. Vaudeville has been very interested in the interaction between Islam and Hinduism in South Asia. Ali S. Asani ("The Ginan Literature of the Ismailis of Indo-Pakistan") responds to this concern by examining the uniquely South Asian genre of ginans, a type...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1107–1109.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., slave girls, and princesses. For example, she discusses Sitt al-Mulk (Lady of Power), the daughter of al-Aziz, the fifth Ismaili Fatimid caliph, who raised a private army after her father's death against her younger brother al-Hakim's claim to the throne (p. 15). Though gender became less relevant...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 499–500.
Published: 01 May 1996
... chapters are: by geographic location in either the United States, Canada, or Central and South America; by date, giving references prior to I960 for each location; by religion Hindu, Muslim, Ismaili, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, and others. He also includes helpful references...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 390–391.
Published: 01 February 1982
... (boyo) cults, shamans {bitati) and their relationship to Ismaili functionaries {khalifa, who performed ritual services but did no teaching), and the operation of the Hunza kingdom of which, Mueller-Stellrecht points out, this is the first exacting account. By far the longest entries are a genealogical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 730–731.
Published: 01 August 1967
... (his conversion from Ismaili Khoja to Isna Ashari Shi'a, his first wearing sherwani and the "Jinnah hat" in 1937, his concern for business develop- 731 ment and his attitudes toward money) go far beyond Bolitho's work in intimacy and importance. On the other hand, his interpretation of the constancy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 633–634.
Published: 01 May 1969
...' work is for the greater part descriptive of the history and social profile of the Asian community in East Africa generally and in Uganda in particular. Even within Uganda it is limited largely to the two communities Patels (Patidars) and Ismailis with whom the author obviously enjoyed greater intimacy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1969) 28 (3): 632–633.
Published: 01 May 1969
... of the history and social profile of the Asian community in East Africa generally and in Uganda in particular. Even within Uganda it is limited largely to the two communities Patels (Patidars) and Ismailis with whom the author obviously enjoyed greater intimacy. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 773–774.
Published: 01 August 1977
... by Theodore Wright which quickened modernizing reform of this Ismaili Muslim sect, even in the absence of new leadership. Competition and Modernization is a collection of useful ethnographic studies. Individually and severally, the collected articles could have been even more useful if better set...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 731–732.
Published: 01 August 1967
... regional factional politics in Bengal and those concerning money. The wealth of biographical data on Jinnah (his conversion from Ismaili Khoja to Isna Ashari Shi'a, his first wearing sherwani and the "Jinnah hat" in 1937, his concern for business develop- 731 ment and his attitudes toward money) go far...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 772–773.
Published: 01 August 1977
... in the Tamil Nadu village described by Burkhart which led clean castes to walk hand in hand to the polls with untouchables. And it was competition for leadership of the Daudi Bodras described by Theodore Wright which quickened modernizing reform of this Ismaili Muslim sect, even in the absence of new...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 May 1978
..., but not explain how the two sects of Shibar, Imamis we certainly would not know it on the basis of and Ismailis, came to be there in the first place. the evidence presented in this book. Nor does it explain the "kind of chessboard of contrasting religious allegiances in which adjacent villages often belong...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 504–505.
Published: 01 May 1978
...) their coexistence is being presupposed, it does is a well-known principle in Islamic history, but not explain how the two sects of Shibar, Imamis we certainly would not know it on the basis of and Ismailis, came to be there in the first place. the evidence presented in this book. Nor does it explain the "kind...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 February 1981
... through a period of several decades in which Sunni and Shia factions were vying for control of the entire community. Eventually their present identity as Shia Imami Ismailis was determined judicially in the Bombay High Court. The fact that this volume has already gone into its second edition testifies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 663–665.
Published: 01 May 2003
... with in more detail. The author skillfully outlines the many factors that come together in the evolution of social complexity in the remote valleys of Tangir and Darel in chapter 3. He outlines 664 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES how the Sunni, Shia, and Ismaili forms of Islam were adopted by isolated communities...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 August 2006
... with whom the Mongols contended or that entered into a client relationship with them: Jin dynasty, Song dynasty, Xia dynasty, Qara-Khitai, Khorazm, Ismailis, Mamluk Egypt, Burma, Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and so on. In addition, the relations of speci c regions with the Mongol empire are surveyed: Manchuria...
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