ABSTRACT
Interviews and focus groups allow shedding light on the processes of social construction of Islamic identities in Jordan. Remarkably, Islam is often conceptualised by respondents as a holistic system of life, which includes the political, social and economic domains. At the same time, the Western concept of ‘modernity’ is often rejected, since it is identified with moral and social harms. Thus, a notion which can be defined as ‘Islamic modernity’, which cross-fertilises homo islamicus with homo economicus features, is emerging.
