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Title: Professor Khoja-Moolji’s Book Finalist for 2024 AAR Book Award

 

 

The American Academy of Religion (AAR) recently announced the 2024 recipients of the Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion.

This annual competition recognizes new scholarly publications that make significant contributions to the study of religion. The awards honor books of distinctive originality, intelligence, and creativity, and these titles affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted.

Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji, the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Chair of Muslim Societies and an Associate Professor at ACMCU, was recognized as a finalist for the Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies category, for her exceptional scholarship in Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford University Press).

Read a review of Rebuilding Community at AAR’s Reading Religion platform.

The book is available through OUP’s website: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (30% discount code: AAFLYG6)

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