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In her moving, sophisticated, and analytically groundbreaking new book\xa0Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality\xa0(Oxford UP, 2023), Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts and engages critical narratives of displacement and migration to examine the formation of religious communities. A central theme of this book is the idea of an Isma\u2018ili ethics of care, as Khoja-Moolji documents with meticulous care the powerful manifestations and consequences of everyday life connected with practices ranging from cooking, socio-religious counseling, and story telling. Moving nimbly between different locations including East Africa, South Asia, and North America, as well as varied theoretical registers dealing with categories of sacred space, the sensorium, and embodied sociality,\xa0Rebuilding Community\xa0is a delightful text that will interest scholars in multiple fields across the Humanities.\nSherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book\xa0Defending Muhammad in Modernity\xa0(University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020\xa0Book Prize\xa0and was selected as a\xa0finalist\xa0for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His second book is called\xa0Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire\xa0(Columbia University Press, 2023). His other academic publications are available\xa0here. He can be reached at sherali.tareen@fandm.edu. Listener feedback is most welcome.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies