ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the Islamic universities negotiate their identity being Islamic and what kind of Muslim subjectivities they construct. Based on her experiences of doing ethnographic research in the Islamic institutions of higher learning, more particularly at Jamia, Gry makes an attempt to understand what role religion plays, if any, at the institutional and individual levels of these institutions. Most interestingly, this work simultaneous to address issues of ethnographic research on Muslim cultures and Islam, in general, takes the point of view of non-Muslim/European researchers, which helps understand the entanglement of the researcher and the researched. How did her own long-held methodological considerations change during the fieldwork has been sketched out in an interesting way.
