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• Title: Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras (Book Review)
• Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 189 KB

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By JONAH BLANK. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2001. Pp. viii + 408. It has taken more than eighty years for a new and original study on the Bohras to appear. Mian Bhai Mulla Abdul-Husain's Gulzare Daudifor the Bohras of India (Burhanpur, 1920) was the main source of information for practically all studies written on the Indian Tayyibi Ism'ili Bohras in the twentieth century. Hollister, Engineer, and Daftary are only a few of the scholars who relied primarily on the Gulzare for their accounts of the Isma'ili community. However, Abdul-Husain's involvement in the opposition movement to the fifty-first da'i mutlaq Syedna Taher Saifuddin (d. 1965) (I will follow the author's example and use the common Bohra vocalization for personal names) is enough to make us wary of an account that has enjoyed a quasi-authoritative status. This alone should make us welcome Jonah Blank's Mullahs on the Mainframe to fill a longstanding gap in the field of Isma'ili studies. The book, which is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation in anthropology submitted at Harvard University in 1998, includes much to be praised. It is based on extensive field research conducted among the Daudi Bohras in India and Pakistan, a first for a scholar from outside the community.

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