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Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras.
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 Saifudd...See the full content of this document
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