Autorità in questione. Islam e modelli di soggettività devota nelle discussioni in moschea a Milano

The anthropological approach to the practices and debates of Milanese da‘wa involves a reformulation of the classic distinction between public and private sphere. The da’wa constitutes a framework for practice and discussion, aimed at spreading pious lifestyles and forms of reasoning rooted in Islamic discursive traditions; the models for pious subjectivity thus elaborated homogeneously comprise actions, sentiments and knowledge. The seemingly private character of the discussed issues notwithstanding, such models are developed publicly, through collective debate; the latter is political as far as it influences the interrelationships among Muslim transnational communities and the rest of society, although not implying an islamization of political life and institutions. This leads to critically rethink the couple Islam/secularism, often described as an oxymoron in the debate about Islam in Europe and Islam of Europe