This issue investigates the ways in which the Sufi repertoire of heuristic categories of intellectual and spiritual maturation (e.g. batin, spiritual growth, intuitional knowledge and inner awareness) may converge, intersect, ...

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2010 with young students living within two Islamic communities in contemporary Turkey, the paper sheds light on narratives of religiously-grounded civic engagement within these ...

L’articolo indaga le pratiche di lettura di un testo islamico, il Risale-i Nur, presso la comunità Suffa, una delle molte che fanno parte del movimento riformista Nur, il più influente della Turchia moderna. L’articolo si ...

In Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining ...

Inspired by the seminal work of Talal Asad, important studies, both within and outside anthropology, have pointed to secularism as a modern ideology resting on a distinction between “secular” and “religious” domains whose ...

The paper explores the dynamics of internalisation and externalisation of the self in relation to transcendence within reading practices of key Islamic texts in the Suffa community in Istanbul. Based on fieldwork and textual ...

This chapter investigates the way Turkish Muslim volunteers in the faith-based organization Deniz Feneri think of their activism. It investigates how Muslim forms of commitment have emerged and changed in shape and meaning ...