The Isma ili Muslims, a major sect of Shii Islam, from a community that is intriguing in its deterritorialized social organization. Informed by the richness of Ismaili history, theories of transnationalism and globalization, and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork in the Himalayan regions of Tajikistan and Pakistan as well as in Europe, Jonah Steinberg investigates Ismaili Muslims and the development of their remarkable and expansive twenty-first-century global ...
