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From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim: The Articulation of Ismaili Khoja Identity in South Asia

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Publication Type  Article
Year of Publication  2011
Date Published  2010
Authors  Ali S. Asani
Original Publication  Modern History of the Ismailis, 2010
Key Words  Khoja; History; Ismaili; Satpanthi; Culture
Abstract  

The historian Bernard Lewis writes that in the course of its evolution, Ismailism ‘has
meant different things at different times and places’.1 A principal reason for the
multivalent significance of the tradition has been its remarkable ability to adapt to
different contexts and circumstances. Depending on the historical period and
geographical/cultural location, Ismaili intellectuals, poets and preachers have expressed
the central doctrines of their faith within a variety of theologies and philosophical
systems
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