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The values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra community, a Shi'a denomination numbering 1 million, concentrated in South Asia but spread worldwide. This society has no contradiction between Islamic traditions and full-fledged modernity. The Bohras uphold orthodox Muslim practices, such as in prayer and dress, while at the same time embracing aspects of modern culture not in direct conflict with their core beliefs. They send their children, of both genders, abroad for education, exhibit greater gender equality than most of the communities of the Indian sub-continent, and have become Internet pioneers, uniting members around the world. This volume shows how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity, not rejected it.

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• Full title: Mullahs on the Mainframe
• Subtitle: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras
• Author: Jonah Blank
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780226056760
• ID: 04542643
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. May 2001

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