“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America

“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America How do people make themselves at home in situations of…
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Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal

Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal This article examines the networks of charity developed by Muslims to discuss community-making in Portugal. Giving allows donors to…
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“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia

“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia Drawing on fieldwork in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia,…
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Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience

Voicing God’s presence: Qurʾānic recitation, Sufi ontologies, and the theatro-graphic experience This article examines Qurʾānic recitation as a modality of divine presence among Bā ʿAlawī Sufis in Tarīm (Yemen) and…
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Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims

Staying behind: Divine presence, virtuous emplacement, and sabr at the end of life among older Kyrgyz Muslims Drawing on fieldwork among older Kyrgyz people who become old in the absence…
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Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge

Rethinking the anthropological enterprise in light of Muslim ontologies: Secular vestiges, spiritual epistemologies, vertical knowledge Because of the difficulty anthropology continues to face in relinquishing its secular vestiges, field encounters…
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