Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska Katarzyna G?rak-Sosnowska Joanna Krotofil
This is the first systematic study of Polish women's conversion to Islam in English. Through interviews with Polish female converts to Islam and ethnographic observation, we learn about their journey to Islam in a country where Muslims constitute less than 0,5% of the population and experience daily struggles related to maintaining their national and religious identities sometimes considered to be spoiled. The analysis presented in the book illuminates different factors that shape the converts' religious lives: attempts to establish "Polish Islam" with its unique cultural flavor; a new hybrid...
This is the first systematic study of Polish women's conversion to Islam in English. Through interviews with Polish female converts to Islam and ethno...