ethnography Archives

[Book Review] Kalyani Devaki Menon, Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022). Reviewed by Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri

By Saiyid Ashraf Husain Jafri // May 13, 2026

Functioning as a passe-partout, Kalyani Devaki Menon’s Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India1 opens up critical pathways into the expanding literature on the ‘everyday’ experiences of Indian Muslims. Menon’s work, grounded in Anthropology, is…

[IMTF] Mahalla in Uzbekistan: An Embodiment of Muslim Values of Neighbourliness and Mutual Support

By Rustam Urinboyev // March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Introduction By nature, every person’s life is organised in such a way that for his own existence and achievement of the highest perfection, he needs many things that he cannot provide for himself alone. He…

Voicing Queer Adjustments in a Progressive Muslim Community

By Katrina Daly Thompson // April 28, 2020

Since January 2016, I’ve been conducting ethnographic research on the progressive Muslim community globally, both face to face in six North American groups and in three online groups. Some of this work, which I report…