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Research on Conversion to Islam in Germany Between 1995 and 2022
In recent years, various parts of German society have become increasingly interested in the phenomenon of conversion to Islam. Despite this newfound...
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Between faith and ethnicity: motifs of conversion and attitudes to ethnic Muslims in the discourses of Russian converts to Islam
This article offers an analysis of conversion to Islam in Russia through the lens of the problem of contemporary relations between converts and the...
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Islam in Mexico: Diversity, Accommodations, and Perspectives on Approach
This article is a review of the presence of, and studies concerning, Islam in Mexico. It is a reflection on the historical presence of Islam in the...
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Teaching Islam to African Muslims in Brazil: an Ottoman’s Nineteenth-Century Travel Account
This essay contextualizes and analyzes the Arabic manuscript Musalliyat al-Gharib , which narrates the experiences of the Ottoman imam ‘Abd al-Rahman...
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Islam nuanced: transcending Shi’a clerical authority among Iranian Americans in rural Kentucky
In this article, I show how a group of Iranian Muslims in Trump-era rural Kentucky conceptualize their Islamic practices in relation to the dominant...
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Revisiting the islam-patriarchy nexus: is religious fundamentalism the central cultural barrier to gender equality?
Is Islam a religion that promotes patriarchy? In the academic debate, there are different assessments. On the one hand, there is the thesis of an...
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Women Embracing Islam in Buenos Aires: Unsubmissive Femininities on the Move
Islam in Argentina draws our attention due to its historical track record in the country, its numerical scale and presence in different regions of...
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Converts to Islam and the Muslim Community in the Christian Philippines
On Palawan Island, where approximately 80,000 Muslims of diverse ethnolinguistic and geographical origins reside together with a larger and similarly...
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“Men Come, and Men Go, But God Is and Remains”: Finnish Female Converts to Islam and Agency
The stereotype of an “oppressed Muslim woman” is a legacy of Orientalist constructions that historically served the Empire’s cultural project in...
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Islam and Muslims in the Perspective of Croatian Historiography
This chapter deals with the perception of Islam and Muslims in Croatian historiographic sources in the period between c. 1500 and c. 1990. Already in...
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The Stages of Igbo Conversion to Islam: An Empirical Study
In recent years a very rare phenomenon was observed in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria—the conversion of the Igbo to Islam. There exists a significant...
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Identity Shift: from Javanese Islam to Shari’ah-Centric Muslims in the Trah, a kinship-based social organisation
This article explores how Javanese identity has shifted away from Javanese Islam ( kejawen) to a more shari’ah-centric identity. This shift is evident...
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‘Making Hijra’: mobility, religion and the everyday in the lives of women converts to Islam in the Netherlands
Drawing on long term research – including topical life stories, interviews and participant observation – we analyze how women converts to Islam in...
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Civilising Attempts in Art and Islam: Muslim Artistic Performance Facing Social Orders in the UK
Drawing on a multidisciplinary framework that combines cultural studies, sociology, and religious studies, the study investigates how Muslim artists...
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Religion and Society II: Presbyterianism, Islam, and Syncretic Practices
This chapter discusses the main non-Hindu religions of the Indo-Trinidadians, namely, Presbyterianism and Islam. Presbyterianism, was the Christian...
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Gender, Power and Conversion in the Everyday Lives of New Jewish Women in the Netherlands
This article analyses the experiences of Dutch women who became Jewish via a giyur process. While the past decade has seen an increased interest in...
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From secularization to religious resurgence: an endogenous account
What accounts for the resurgence of religion in Muslim countries that pursue strict secularization policies? Theories of religious resurgence have...
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Islam and Black America: the Religious Life of Malcolm X
The religious life of Malcolm X is a vital chapter in the history of Islam and a challenge to both anti-Black racism and Sunni hegemony. Malcolm’s...
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Divergent Views on the Historical and Present Relation of Shamanism and Islam in International Post-Colonialist Scholarship
In light of the long, complex history of Tsarist and Soviet ethnography among the Central Asian Muslim peoples, the question of ‘pre-Islamic...
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Muslims in Belgium: From Immigrant Guestworkers to a Polymorphic and Contested Minority
The vast majority of the Belgian Muslim population is tied in one way or another to an appeal made to immigrant guest workers by the Belgian public...