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Chapter 1
Shifting Sands of Culture In the spring of circa 1850, two wanderers quietly slipped into a small mud house in a village of Kutch, India, to witness the birth of a baby boy. They had promised a newlywed couple that they would return in a year to conduct a bay’ah or a baptizing ceremony for Read More⇢
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Acknowledgment
First and foremost, I am profoundly and emotively grateful to my mother, who, while sick, pleaded that I pursue further education instead of wanting to care for her. She pulled out a stash of small bills from her potlo ( a piece of cloth that bundles small items in a… More⇢
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to all the Ismailis of East Africa who were impacted by the migration twice: from India to East Africa and then from East Africa to Canada. Their self-consciousness has been the result of witnessing colonialism, religious nationalism in India and Pakistan, black ethnic African nationalism, and… More⇢