ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasis on everyday lived Islam means for research design, getting access, and research techniques. It presents a short overview of the research techniques that the contributors to this volume used to capture everyday lived Islam. It discern two trends in the studies presented here, one drawing attention above all to religious experience, emotions and interiority, and another focusing to a greater extent than in earlier studies on the material or tangible dimensions of religion. The chapter explores methods for the study of everyday, lived, tactical Islam in Europe. The focus on strategy and tactics emphasised throughout this chapter ensures that constraints, exercise and negotiations of power remain integral to such work. Interaction between researches fields ensures that it avoids emphasising the otherness of Islam: it will show that the religious experience of Muslims bears similarities to the religiosity of other people in present times.
