Isma'ili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community

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231 Abu Bakr, Caliph, 34 Afghanistan, 23, 41, 88; from perspective of Ismaʿilis of Tajikistan, 120–26 Africa, 9, 46, 49, 170, 195 Aga Khan I (Hasan ʿAli Shah), 28, 39, 40–45 Aga Khan II (Aqa ʿAli Shah), 29, 47 Aga Khan III (Sultan Muhammad Shah al-Husayni), 29, 47–55, 194–95 Aga Khan IV (Prince Karim), 3, 11, 29, 35, 195, 217 (n. 8); charisma of, 84, 197 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 56, 71 Aga Khan Case of 1866 (Bombay High Court), 39, 42–45, 194 Aga Khan Development Network, 3, 11, 24–25, 29, 63, 82, 85, 180; and architecture , 74–76; and capitalism, 67, 68; and jamaʿati institutions, 88; and visual symbols, 72–74 Aga Khan Education Services, 25, 76 Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), 3, 25, 63, 82; and ecology, 64–65; and educational exchange, 81; and gender, 68–69; and infrastructure, 65; and modernity, 70 Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), 25, 56, 63, 68 Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS), 25, 70 Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP), 25, 81 Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Pakistan (AKRSP), 23–24, 64, 69, 82, 133, 164–68. See also Village Organizations Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), 25, 70–72 Aga Khan University, 77 Ahl al-Bayt (people of the house). See Shiʿa Islam, Ithnaʿashari Aiglemont. See Secretariat, Ismaʿili Alamut, Fortress of, 98 Alexander the Great, 110 ʿAli (bin Abu Talib), 10, 33–34 All India Muslim League, 48 Al-Mustansir, Imam, 37 Altit. See Hunza, Pakistan Altitude, cosmologies of, 116 Aly Khan, 213 (n. 13) “Assassins,” 9 Assemblage, 8, 13 Badakchani, Sayyid Jalal, 89 Badakhshan, 111, 120. See also GornoBadakhshan Baltit. See Hunza Batin (inner religion), 10, 103, 204 Bayat (oath of loyalty), 58 Bishkent, Tajikistan, 216 (n. 11) Bohras, Daʾudi, 9 Bombay, 42–43, 48, 187 “Borderland Ismaʿilis.” See Himalayan Ismaʿilis Boundaries, political, 109, 120–26, 199 Index 232 INDEX Boy Scouts, Ismaʿili, 52 Bridges, 64 British Empire, 6, 13–14, 41–55, 179 Buddhism, 110 Burma, 49 Cairo, 34 Capitalism, 14, 15–16, 30, 65, 164, 170, 173–74, 178, 193 Cargo cults, 197 China, 23, 36, 134; Ismaʿilis of, 186–92 Chinghiz Khan, 111 Chiraghrawshan (candle lighting), 117 Chitral, Pakistan, 24 “Choryori” (as term for “Sunni”), 134–38 Citizenship, 2, 7–8, 20, 172 Civil society, 7 Civil War, Tajikistan, 75, 126–31, 157, 170, 202 Communism, 113, 153; in China, 136 Conference of the Birds (Farid-ud-Din Attar), 161–62 Constitutions, Ismaʿili, 49–50, 56 Cossacks, 157 Daghestan, 157–58 Daʿis (missionaries), 38 Daʿwa (mission), 37 Democracy, 7 Devotion, religious, 101–6 Dhuʾl-Qarnayn. See Alexander the Great Diaspora, 6, 16, 45–47, 179, 194, 195–96 Didar (audience with the imam), 45, 102–4, 181–82 Druze, 9, 36 Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 75 Ecology, 112–13 European empires, 13, 14, 30, 39, 203; and “the Great Game,” 120, 203 Farmans, 3, 11, 45, 49, 53, 96, 100, 104–5, 135, 144, 181–82, 187, 188–89 Fatimid Empire, 9, 17, 30, 34, 37 Focus Humanitarian Assistance, 25, 88–89 Foucault, Michel, 8 Gandhara, 110, 115 Ghaznavids, 110–11, 115 Gilgit, Pakistan, 23–24, 113, 131–34, 218 (n. 7) Gorno-Badakhshan: Autonomous Oblast, 20, 22, 23, 89, 97, 128, 130, 136, 181–86, 202 Governmentality, 8 Gujarat, 35, 37, 39 Hadhramawti (Hadrami) Sayyids, 13, 45, 218 (n. 5) Hasan ʿAli Shah. See Aga Khan I Hazara (Afghanistan ethnic group), 36, 215 (n. 2) Herding, 113, 140 Himalayan Ismaʿilis, 12, 15, 21–25, 28, 36, 108–42; cosmologies of, 116–19 Himalayan mountains, 112 Hindu Shahis, 110, 115 Hunza, Pakistan, 2–7, 20, 23–24, 64, 76, 89, 113 Hunzai, Nasir al-Din, 89 “Imagined community,” 12 Imam, Hazir (present), 100, 102, 135, 138 Imamati institutions, 29, 88 India, 99 Indian Ocean, 6, 13, 178 Institute for Ismaʿili Studies (IIS), 24, 29, 87–88, 90–93 Iran, 40–41, 48–49, 190 Irrigation, 66, 113 Iskanderov, Akbarsho, 127 Islamic militancy, 21, 25, 119, 201–4 Ismaʿili Tariqah Religious Education Boards, 29, 56, 87–88, 91, 93, 101, 159 Ismaʿili Tariqah Religious Education Committee, Tajikistan, 25, 87–88, 118, 144–46, 156 INDEX 233 Jaʿfar al-Sadiq (Shiʿi imam), 34 Jamaʿati institutions, 29, 87–88; and architecture, 74–75 Jamaʿat Khanas, 3, 10, 43, 46–47, 50...