ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses some of the challenges being faced by researchers who are trying to work on wider issues pertaining to the study of the different worlds in which Muslims live. It looks at the trajectories of various area studies and disciplines and at the often competing conceptual premises which more often than not arise from the differing disciplinary traditions. In addition, different national scholarly traditions (i.e., between the Anglo-, Arabo-, Franco-, and Germano-phone world, to name but a few) further increase the difficulties of meaningful communication and overarching analysis. The chapter describes and illustrates these difficulties.
