The aim of this special issue is to explore, from the perspective of various notions of space, the manifold ways in which Muslims in Russia live and practice their religion. We aim to analyse how Muslims in Russia are confronted in the practice of their religion with various conceptual and experiential realms. These realms correspond to certain divisions that they must negotiate and navigate. Examples of these include the boundaries between the secular and the religious; the public and the private; the official and the informal or unofficial; the local and the translocal/transregional/transnational; halal and haram, etc. Looking at Islam through the lens of space allows us to explore the dynamic ways in which Muslims in Russia have continued to creatively redefine, negotiate, reinforce, alter and dissolve these boundaries and divides since the fall of the Soviet Union. Diverse experiences and perceptions of Muslim spaces further help us to relate the question of the (re)appearance of these Muslim spaces to the process of de-secularisation that is currently taking place in post-Soviet Russia. In particular, we aim to clarify how the relationship between the secular realm and the Islamic religion is being reconfigured by examining how Muslim lives integrate, transcend and alter the normative dichotomies that are present in official discourses on Islam. We thus want to look ethnographically at the relationship between the ways in which normative categories define and delimit certain realms and the ways in which Muslims live their religion by creatively shaping and experiencing spaces that go beyond these normative divisions. In addition, this special issue explores the question of how the (re)creation of Muslim spaces is linked to processes of becoming Muslim, of cultivating a Muslim self and of experiencing different (but often simultaneous) identities and forms of personhood.

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简介：规范性命令与当代俄罗斯穆斯林空间和自我的改造

本期特刊的目的是从各种空间观念的角度探讨俄罗斯穆斯林生活和实践宗教的多种方式。我们旨在分析俄罗斯的穆斯林在宗教实践中如何面对各种概念和体验领域。这些领域对应于它们必须协商和导航的某些划分。这些例子包括世俗和宗教之间的界限；公共和私人；官方和非正式或非官方的；本地和跨本地/跨地区/跨国的；清真和哈拉姆等。从太空的角度看伊斯兰教，使我们能够探索动态的方式，俄罗斯的穆斯林继续创造性地重新定义，谈判，强化，自苏联解体以来，改变和消除了这些边界和分歧。对穆斯林空间的不同经验和看法进一步帮助我们将这些穆斯林空间的（重新）出现问题与后苏联时期俄罗斯目前正在发生的非世俗化进程联系起来。特别是，我们旨在通过研究穆斯林生活如何整合，超越和改变伊斯兰教官方话语中的规范二分法，来阐明世俗领域与伊斯兰宗教之间的关系是如何重新构造的。因此，我们希望从人种学的角度来看待规范范畴定义和界定某些领域的方式与穆斯林通过创造性地塑造和体验超越这些规范划分的空间来生活其宗教的方式之间的关系。