RT Book
T1 Politics of despotic leaders: subversion, repression and development in the Hazara Ismaili Community of Afghanistan
A1 Emadi, Hafizullah 1952-
LA English
PP Chennai Berlin Bruxelles Lausanne New York Oxford
PB Peter Lang
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1900906570
AB The book demonstrates the prominent role the local religious leaders played in the lives of the Ismaili community and the governance strategies they adopted to portray themselves as demi-god forcing people to develop blind faith in them, submit to their leadership and follow their dictates unquestioned
AB "The book studies the Hazara Ismailis of Afghanistan - a community that endured years of marginalization in a repressive environment, persevered and sustained the faith while maintaining and practicing Taqiyya, dissimulation of their faith. It examines policies and actions of local authoritarian Ismaili religious leaders in controlling every aspect of the community affairs. The book also explores the status of Ismailis during and after the US-NATO occupation period and efforts by the Ismaili spiritual leader, the Aga Khan who in 2002 with a stroke of a pen removed the tyrant Ismaili leaders - abolished the hereditary system of leadership in the Ismaili community, established modern institutional structures and appointed new generation of leaders to guide the community for a three-year term renewable once - a system of leadership that liberated Ismailis from bondage to their local religious and tribal leaders and allowed grassroots participation of the people in the daily affairs of their community"--
CN BP195.I8
SN 978-1-80374-651-7
K1 Aga Khan : III : 1877-1957
K1 Ismailites : Afghanistan : History
K1 Religious Discrimination : Afghanistan : History
K1 Colonialism & imperialism
K1 Ethnic Studies
K1 HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
K1 Indigene Völker: Politische Führung und Politik
K1 Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
K1 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ecclesiology
K1 RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic
K1 RELIGION / Comparative Religion
K1 Religious issues & debates
K1 Religiöse Fragen und Debatten