The Modern Resurrection of Nizārī Ismaili Islam

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter analyses several long-standing reforms enacted within Nizārī Ismaili Muslim communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by the Aga Khans, the modern hereditary Ismaili Imams. Prior studies have focused on the Aga Khans’ socioeconomic and communal reforms within a narrative of the Ismailis as a modern, progressive, and enlightened Muslim community. This chapter focuses on theological, ritual, and institutional reforms that have received less scholarly coverage. These include radical changes in Ismaili religious identity and practice, the suspension of the Ismaili religious hierarchy (ḥudūd al-dīn), modernization of Ismaili socioeconomic activities including gender roles, and the institutionalization and bureaucratization of the Ismaili Imamate. While these reforms have been successful in delivering socioeconomic and communal benefit for Ismaili communities, several new challenges have emerged in their wake, such as: difficulties in articulating Ismaili belief and praxis vis-à-vis legalistic Islam, bureaucratic challenges to grassroots expressions of Ismaili identity, and the virtual dissolution of constructive theology from Ismaili bureaucratic institutions.
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Authors Khalil Andani
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.1
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.1
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