Strude, the Danish Burka
The garment before your eyes is called ‘Strude’. I discovered its existence in 2010, while conducting research in Denmark on controversies around Islam that…
Read MoreThe garment before your eyes is called ‘Strude’. I discovered its existence in 2010, while conducting research in Denmark on controversies around Islam that…
Read MoreIn the context of our first thematic week on the anthropology of Islam (follow us on #ANTHROISLAM), Allegra compiled specially for you, dear…
Read MoreTo continue our #ANTHROISLAM week, today we offer you a list of classic reading – classic not necessarily as in ‘old’ but as in…
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Read MoreThe ‘marriage events’ organised by the Islamic Circles take place at Bircbeck College, in central London, usually on Sundays. These events are meant to…
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Read MoreThese fieldnotes are part of an on-going research on the Islamic legal culture of England. This research, which I started in 2009, aims to…
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