Religion News Service (RNS) spoke to Shenila Khoja-Moolji, a professor of Muslim societies at Georgetown University, about her forthcoming new book (Oxford), “Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality.” The book records the histories of women in her faith community that are absent from religious archives. Please click HERE or on the image below to read and listen to Kathryn Post’s report in RNS, along with Professor Khoja-Moolji’s interview.

Date posted: July 12, 2023.

Featured image at top of post: Ismailis cooking for the community in advance of a religious festival in Toronto in the 1970s. Photograph: Dr. Mohamed Manji, Vancouver.

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