Recent anthropological scholarship on Islam has tended to carve out the ‘everyday’ as a space of Muslim life that has the potential to escape the normativity of religious discourses. In this paper, I discuss how the special ...

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 ...

No other people are mentioned in the Qur'an as often as the people of Israel. They appear in sixteen surahs and approximately forty verses by name (banu Isra'il). The Qur'an also makes reference to the Jews either by name ...