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A Respect for Difference: The Shi'a Ismaili Khojas of Mumbai

This dissertation explores how ideas about cultural and religious difference motivate members of the Shi‘a Ismaili Khojas community in Mumbai to erect social boundaries around their community and reach out to others through volunteer service. As a minority within India’s Muslim minority, difference has been a particularly fraught issue for Ismailis throughout their history. Consequently, they have maintained strict boundary lines around religious institutions in their community, such as sharply restricting attendance at religious functions to Ismailis only.

Reading Global Islam Through Messianic Renewal in Dasavatar

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REBIRTH - REINCARNATION By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali

REBIRTH - REINCARNATION
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
mumtaztajddin@yahoo.com

Re-birth or Reincarnation is a philosophical aspect, nothing to do with fundamental or doctrinal teachings of Islam that the soul, after biological death begins another life in a new body.

Redefining Muslim Women: Aga Khan III’s Reforms for Women’s Education

In the history of Muslim India, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century formed a period that
witnessed intense public contestation over the role of women in society. Against that background, this article
explores the writings and institutional initiatives of the forty-eighth Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili
Muslims, Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, with reference to women’s education. It compares and contrasts his
thinking with the foundational texts on women’s education written by four other prominent Muslim leaders of that

RÉFLEXION SUR L'IMÂMAT DE AARON, ELÉAZAR ET PHIHÉÈS



"L'Imam ne disparaît jamais... L'Imam doit être présent dans ce monde pour guider Ses fidèles en tout temps, pour leur bien, pour les mener au Droit Chemin et pour le maintien de l'Imâmat."
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah

Cutchh Nagalpûr, 28-11-1903.

Réflexion Sur L'Imâmat De Melchisédech Et Tèrah

Le but de cette étude est de montrer et d'essayer de résoudre certaines contradictions apparentes qui paraissent lors de l'analyse de la lignée de l'Imâmat.

Religion of My Ancestors - Islam

The origins of man's religious aspirations are to be found in what we nowadays call science. Those who have studied mythology and primitive psychology know that magic in various forms started various trains of thought in primitive man by which he achieved what seemed to him to be rational accounts of the natural phenomena around him.

REWARD OF FOOT-STEPS TAKEN TOWARDS JAMATKHANA

We recon the mark or impression made by a foot being the foot-step, an action of taking a step in gait or the distance covered by a stride in walking. In Arabic, it is called waqae or aqdam, in Hindi qadam, in Marathi paula and in Gujrati pagathiyu’n and dagalu.

Koran (36:12) says, “And We write down that which they send ahead (of their deeds) and the footprints that they left behind.” (wa nak tobo ma kademu wa a’asaare’ qum).

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