Sufism in Eastern Europe

Based on the lived religion approach within religious studies, this research project explores how identity is expressed through visual and material religious media. It focuses on (the traces of) activities, practices and institutions of Sufism within Eastern European Islam. The geographical area covered is primarily the Balkans (especially Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Serbia), but also includes Hungary, the Romanian Dobruja, and the Crimea. Fieldwork in the lands of the Crimean Tatars was carried out in 2013, only months before the Russian annexation of the peninsula.