Book Review: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Book Review by Dr. Celene Ibrahim
"This is a rich work, conversant with an impressive range of contemporary theorists across multiple disciplines. While anchored in the Ismaili context, the book transcends this specificity by theorizing the communal practices that invite capacious diasporic futures. Khoja-Moolji’s monograph is path-setting and can be regarded alongside luminaries who have worked on Muslim women’s worlds; for its ability to theorize intersubjectivity, cultural memory, and Muslim women’s religiosity, we can liken Khoja-Moolji’s monograph to that of Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (Princeton University Press, 2011). Khoja-Moolji is to be commended for giving women’s social worlds center stage within a distinct Muslim minority community. The author’s work will draw the interest of academics spanning multiple fields, including religious studies, anthropology, diaspora studies, refugee studies, gender studies, Islamic Studies, South Asian studies, East African studies, American studies, and feminist studies, even as it reaches audiences beyond university classrooms." (Celene Ibrahim)
Author of Review: Dr. Celene Ibrahim
Author of Book: Dr. Shenila Khoja-Moolji
Link to Review: Academia.edu
Link to Purchase: Oxford University Press