List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Notes on Transliteration and Dates; Sources; Prologue: Fatimid Encounters across the Indian Ocean; Introduction: Reading Sijistani in Gujarat: the Bohra Treasury of Books; Inside the Treasury of Books: Reflections on the Ethnography of Manuscripts; Chapter 1. Community; 1.1. Shrine Custodians; 1.2. Secret Manuscripts and their Social Lives; 1.3. Everyday Documents and the Organization of the Da'wa; 1.

4. An Indian Muslim Caste; Chapter 2. The Treasury of Books; 2.1. Neither Library nor Archive: the Khizana as a Treasury of Books; 2.2. A Lost Fatimid Khizana in Gujarat?; 2.3.

A Treasury of Books across the Indian Ocean; 2.4. A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books in Baroda; Chapter 3. Secret Universe; 3.1. Bohra Spaces and their Modes of Access; 3.2. Access I: a Profane Topography of the Bohra Universe; 3.

3. Access II: a Sacred Geography of the Bohra universe; 3.4. Gender, Etiquette, and Access; Chapter 4. Manuscript Stories; 4.1. Secret Khizana, Social Manuscripts; 4.2.

Manuscripts of Alawi Provence; 4.3. Manuscripts of Non-Alawi Provenance; 4.4. Practices of Borrowing, Lending, and Appropriation; Chapter 5. The Materiality of Secrecy; 5.1. Codicology of the Treasury of Books; 5.

2. Anatomy of Bohra Manuscripts: Paratexts from Head to Tail; 5.4. Occult Paratexts: Batini Manuscript Culture; 5.5. Magical Marginalia: Zahiri Manuscript Culture; Chapter 6. Script and Scribal Politics; 6.1.

A Modern Isma'ili Manuscriptorium; 6.2. Script and the Language of Secrecy; 6.3. Khizana Scripts; 6.4. Scribal Politics; Conclusion: A Jihad for Books; Epilogue: A Case for Social Codicology; Glossary; Bibliography.