<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kassam, Tazim R.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Asani, Ali S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boivin, Michel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mallison, Francoise</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Devraj Thontya , Mohan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jani, Balvant S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jani, Urmila B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jiwa, Pyarali</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khan, Dominique-Sila</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Purohit, Teena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sheikh, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shodhan, A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Surani, Iqbal</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tajdin, Nagib</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talbani,</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hasanali, P</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GINANS : Texts and Contexts : Essays on Ismaili Hymns from South Asia in Honour of Zawahir Moir</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bibliography</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English,</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><edition><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Revised</style></edition><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">226 p</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ISBN : 81-908918-7-5</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Contents: Foreword/Christopher Shackle. A bio-bibliography of Zawahir Moir/Wafi A. Momin. Preface/Tazim R. Kassam and Francoise Mallison. 1. Introductory Essay: Reframing Ginanic studies: thoughts on multiple positions and heuristic tropes/Tazim R. Kassam. 2. A brief note on the Bujh Niranjan/Ali S. Asani. 3. Ginans and the management of the religious heritage of the Ismaili Khojas in Sindh/Mchel Boivin. 4. Some Ginans common to Barmati Panthi and Satpanthi traditions/Mohan Devraj Thontya and Francoise Mallison. 5. Ginans attributed to unknown composers/Balvant S. Jani. 6. A thematic study of a Satpanthi Ginan and a Mahapanthi Bhajan/Urmila B. Jani. 7. Creating a database of Ginans and related materials/Pyarali Jiwa. 8. Rewriting the Ginans: revolution and resistance among the Imamshahis/Dominique-Sila Khan. 9. The myth of Nagadamana in the Dasa-avataras and other Ginans/Francoise Mallison. 10. Sribuddha's gracious rescue of the Pandavas in Buddhavatar/Teena Purohit. 11. Religious traditions and early Ismaili history in Western India: some historical perspectives on Satpanthi literature and the Ginans/Samira Sheikh. 12. The entanglement of the Ginans in the Khoja governance/Amrita Shodhan. 13. 'Kalam-i Maula': notes on an Indian Ismaili Text/Iabal Surani. 14. The concept of 'GOD beyond God' in the Khat Nirinjan of Pir Sadardin: a personal exegesis/Nagib Tajdin. 15. Ta'wil and Ginanic literature: knowledge discourse and spiritual experience/Aziz Talbani and Parveen Hasanali. Index.&quot;The Satpanth Ismaili Muslims of South Asia have a beautiful tradition of religious poetry called Ginans which they have sung for many centuries in daily rituals. This small Shi'a community has spread from India to other continents, but it has held fast to the practice of singing Ginans.

Composed in Indian languages and idiom, the Ginans illustrate how Muslims were influenced by the surrounding cultures and philosophies, and created new ways of expressing their beliefs and values. Although this living tradition of religious songs is central to Ismaili practice, only a handful of studies have dealt with the subject.

This collection of essays on the Ginans by academic scholars and community enthusiasts is written in honour of Zawahir Moir, one of the earliest scholars of the Ginans. She has dedicated her life to their study and spent many years preparing a catalogue of Ginan manuscripts housed at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.&quot; (jacket) </style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Edited by Tazim R. Kassam and Francoise Mallison, Primus Books, 2010, Revised Edition, xxviii, 226 p, 7 illus, ISBN : 81-908918-7-5</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Purohit, Teena</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reading Global Islam Through Messianic Renewal in Dasavatar</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">12/2007</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Routledge</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In the Aga Khan Case of 1866, the Bombay High Court&amp;acirc;s rede&amp;iuml;&amp;not;nition of a caste group of
khojas as &amp;acirc;Ismaili&amp;acirc; resulted in the institution of a uniform religious identity that undermined
the pluralistic character of Islamic practices in South Asia. The colonial court&amp;acirc;s
monolithic understanding of khoja identity as &amp;acirc;Ismaili&amp;acirc; has continued to in&amp;iuml;&amp;not;uence the
community&amp;acirc;s self-understanding to the present day. In this paper, I question this dominant
narrative in which khojas were identi&amp;iuml;&amp;not;ed as &amp;acirc;Ismaili&amp;acirc;. I argue that the early modern
Gujarati poem of the gina&amp;Acirc;&amp;macr;n genre, Dasavata&amp;Acirc;&amp;macr;r, became essential to the making of Ismaili
Muslim identity in the nineteenth century. I read the Dasavata&amp;Acirc;&amp;macr;r gina&amp;Acirc;&amp;macr;n as a conduit of
khojas&amp;acirc; religious beliefs to produce an alternative history of Ismaili community formation.
This discussion of Dasavata&amp;Acirc;&amp;macr;r explores the workings of global Islam in microcosm.
It shows that the &amp;acirc;borrowings&amp;acirc; which transpire within the Indo-Islamic ecumene cannot be
conceptualized through notions of &amp;acirc;sect&amp;acirc; or as an addendum to a Middle East-centered
Islamic grand narrative, which is how the Ismailis continue to be described in authoritative
accounts.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>