InhaltsangabeIntroduction.- Magnus Marsden & Konstantinos Retsikas.- Shurafâ as cosmopolitans: Islam, genealogy and hierarchy in the Central Sahara  Judith Scheele.-  Death and the spirit of patriarchy in western India  Edward Simpson.-. On the skills to navigate the world, and religion, for coastal Muslims in Kenya Kai Kresse.- Beyond Islam: tradition and the intelligibility of experience Johan Rasanayagam.- Becoming sacred: humanity and divinity in East Java, Indonesia Konstantinos Retsikas.-  Self-similarity and its perils Gabriele vom Bruck.- The universal and the particular in rural Xinjiang: ritual commensality and the mosque community Chris Hann.-  Apolitical "Islamisation"? On the limits of religiosity in montane Morocco Matthew Carey.-  Integrity and commitment in the anthropology of Islam Morgan Clarke.-  Fieldwork in Pakistan and Afghanistan compared Magnus Marsden.- 11.Afterword: De-exceptionalising Islam   Simon Coleman.