Rebuilding Community

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia and Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan.

• Note on Translation Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community 2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970 Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972 3. Fostering Sacred Spaces 4. Storying Divine Intervention 5. Culinary Placemaking 6. Placemaking in the Second Generation 7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies Notes Bibliography Index

With this monograph, Khoja Moolji fills a gap in the existing literature and moves the trajectory of her own work in compelling directions. It constitutes appropriate reading for graduate level or advanced undergraduate courses, and selections would enhance syllabi in a range of introductory level courses. The book will, no doubt, garner an enthusiastic audience among Ismailis who see their histories reflected with such care and precision. For all its academic and theoretical value, the most enduring impact may be the service, the seva, that Khoja Moolji performs in capturing so keenly and tenderly an era in Ismaili women's history.