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A Reflexive Islamic Modernity

Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community
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 2020

Summary

Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Drawing on sociological approaches to religion and knowledge, this study examines the academic discourse of these two institutes an the religious subjectivities of their international body of students. It shows that the Ismaili community is navigating challenges along three axes: its relationship to secular modernity, to mainstream Islam, and to itself (its own history and identity). The Ismaili response to this three-dimensional challenge is interpreted as a process of reflexive modernization, whereby Islam is discursively reconceptualized as culture rather than religion and uncertainty is internalized into individual religious subjectivity.

Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-95650-636-9
ISBN-Online
978-3-95650-637-6
Publisher
Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series
Religion in der Gesellschaft
Volume
47
Language
English
Pages
230
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Table of contents

ChapterPages
  1. Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access 1 - 14
    1. 1. Development and Conceptualization No access
      1. Objectives: No access
      2. Relevance: No access
      1. Summary of Chapter One: No access
      1. 1.1. A Response to Postmodern Theory No access
      2. 1.2. Defining Reflexivity No access
      3. 1.3. Boundaries and Subjectivity in First vs. Late Modernity No access
      4. 1.4. Community and Shared Meanings in Late Modernity No access
      5. 1.5. Social Sciences and Modernity No access
      6. 1.6. Relevance for this Study No access
      1. 2.1. Religion No access
      2. 2.2. Knowledge and Belief No access
      3. 2.3. Faith and Reason No access
      4. 2.4. Culture No access
      1. 3.1. Revisiting the Secularization Thesis No access
      2. 3.2. Secularism and the Secular – The Epistemic Dimension No access
      3. 3.3. The Debate about Religion in the Public Sphere No access
        1. Summary of Chapter Two: No access
      1. 1.1. Promotional Materials and Institutional Documents No access
      2. 1.2. Articles No access
      3. 1.3. Speeches, Lectures, and Other Public Events No access
      4. 1.4. Selected Speeches of the Aga Khan No access
      1. 2.1. Ontological and Epistemological Basis No access
      2. 2.2. Research Design No access
        1. 2.3.1. Insider vs. Outsider Research No access
        2. 2.3.2. The Ismaili Community and Academic Research No access
        3. 2.3.3. Personal Experience of Researching Ismailis No access
        1. 3.1.1. Sample No access
        2. 3.1.2. Sampling Methods No access
        3. 3.1.3. Outline and Questions No access
      2. 3.2. Participant Observation No access
      3. 3.3. Meetings with Experts No access
    4. 4. Analysis No access
      1. Summary of Chapter Three: No access
      1. 1.1. Historical Overview No access
        1. 1.2.1. Early Ismaili Thought No access
        2. 1.2.2. Fatimid Ismaili Thought No access
        3. 1.2.3. Ismaili Thought during the Alamut Era No access
      3. 1.3. Organization No access
    2. 2. Post-Alamut Ismailism (1256 – 1817) No access
      1. 3.1. Aga Khan I: From Qajar Iran to British India No access
      2. 3.2. Aga Khan III: The Modernization of Ismailism No access
      3. 3.3. Aga Khan IV: From Modernization to Globalization No access
        1. a) National Contexts No access
        2. b) Socio-economic Conditions No access
        3. c) Political Orientation No access
        4. d) Geographic Mobility No access
        5. e) Rituals and Places of Worship No access
      2. 4.2. Relationship to Mainstream Islam No access
        1. Summary of Chapter Four: No access
      1. 1.1. The Classical Period No access
      2. 1.2. Contemporary Ismailism No access
      1. 2.1. IIS No access
      2. 2.2. ISMC No access
        1. 2.3.1. Curriculum and Structure No access
      4. 2.4. The IIS and the ISMC in the Context of Higher Education and Religion No access
        1. 3.1.1. Critiquing Secularism No access
        2. 3.1.2. Critiquing Fundamentalism No access
          1. Why Culture? No access
        2. 3.2.2. Culture as a Medium to Deconstruct Fundamentalist Conceptions No access
      3. 3.3. From Islam to Muslims No access
      4. 3.4. From Islamic to Inter-Disciplinarily Studies No access
      1. 4.1. Harmony through Culture No access
        1. Summary of Chapter Five: No access
      1. 1.1. Expectations of Similarity, Encounters with Heterogeneity No access
      2. 1.2. A Compact Social Environment: Living in a “Bubble” No access
        1. 1.3.1. Ritual Differences No access
        2. 1.3.2. Ethnic and Social Distinctions No access
        3. 1.3.3. Multiple Differentiations of the Religious and the Secular No access
        4. 1.3.4. Khojas’ View of other Ismailis No access
      4. 1.4. Summary of Section 1 No access
        1. 2.1.1. The Challenge of Defining Relationship to Mainstream Islam No access
        2. 2.1.2. Religiously ‘Introverted’ No access
      2. 2.2. Narratives of Doubt and Internal Struggles No access
        1. 2.3.1. Normalization of Doubt No access
        2. 2.3.2. A Separatist Approach to Faith and Reason No access
        3. 2.3.3. Focus on Social and Psychological Functions of Religion No access
        4. 2.3.4. Drawing on Ismaili Doctrines No access
        5. 2.3.5. Deconstructing Questions and Normative Presumptions No access
        6. 2.3.6. Some Remarks about the Strategies No access
      4. 2.4. Summary of Section 2 No access
    1. 1. The Three-Dimensional Challenge No access
      1. 1. Boundaries and fundamental distinctions lose their unequivocal character No access
      2. 2. Multiplicity of ways to draw and justify boundaries and the recognition thereof No access
      3. 3. The destabilization of reference systems No access
      4. 4. Subject drawing its boundaries and continuously revising its position No access
      5. 5. Boundaries handled practically depending on context and individual No access
      6. 6. Uncertainty incorporated as an institutional learning process No access
      7. 7. Subjects are more knowledgeable, but less certain No access
    3. 3. Future Research No access
  9. Appendix I – Details of Quoted Interviews No access 211 - 212
  10. Appendix II – Details of Quoted Fieldnotes No access 213 - 214
  11. Appendix III – Sources for the Analysis of Ismaili Discourse on Religion No access 215 - 218
  12. Bibliography No access 219 - 230

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