Mullahs on the Mainframe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonah Blank
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Religion, anthropology, and current affairs
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: The state of Gujarat and city of Bombay, India, and other locales around the globe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Religion and spirituality, Anthropology
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Islam, Asia or Asians, Muslims, India or East Indian people, 1990’s
- Locales: Bombay, India
In Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras, Jonah Blank has produced a scrupulously researched and impressively detailed account of the Daudi Bohras, a fascinating and relatively unknown religious community. In doing so, Blank does much more than simply reveal the lives of his subjects. He also undermines inaccurate (and often unkind) stereotypes of Islam and raises issues crucial to the enterprise of organized religion in general, particularly in a world that has passed from the challenging shores of modernity to the positively daunting uncharted...
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