Rediscovering the “everyday” Muslim: Notes on an anthropological divide

摘要: This article critically examines recent calls by anthropologists to focus on what they call “everyday Islam.” We locate this new literature within two tensions central anthropology: first, its dual commitment humanity’s heterogeneity and commonality, second, imperative account for dominant social structures individual resistance. argue that the concept of everyday Islam emphasizes one side these paradigmatic debates, highlighting universality humans emphasizing opposition norms. then take up distinction makes between Muslims Salafi Muslims. suggest a reinvestment in ends discounting validity, reality, ontology those framed as invalidates ethnographic inquiry into ultra-orthodox Muslim life. Even scholarship attempts expand anthropology Islam, then, it restricts field instead demarcating anthropology’s proper object study very narrow way.