Shenila Khoja-Moolji's eloquent and accessible book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on lived Islam, and is written with special attention to the role of migrant women's ordinary ethical pursuits in cultivating spiritual intimacies in new spaces. Her book makes an especially important contribution to the anthropology of Islam, moving beyond paradigms of ethical self-cultivation to properly account for divine presence in an innovative and creative manner.
Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia and Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan.