Approaching Islam as a discursive terrain, this article challenges the tacit understanding of Islam as a repressor in young women’s lives and argues that well-educated, young female Muslims in Denmark use a discursive distinction between “real” Islam and “misguided” ethno-cultural traditions to challenge restrictive gender norms. Inspired by research on everyday lived religion and lived Islam, we show how the women—backed by their middle-class identity formations—posit a culture/religion dichotomy turning the discursive terrain of Islam into a resource in intergenerational discussions with their own families and wider communities. Addressing a gap in research literature on European Muslims, the article illustrates how middle-class formations play a significant part in the women’s responses to conventional authorities as the women apply Islamic sources in negotiations of gender boundaries.

本文将伊斯兰视为一个话语领域，挑战了对伊斯兰在年轻女性生活中的压制者的默契理解，并认为丹麦受过良好教育的年轻女性穆斯林在“真实”伊斯兰和“误导”民族文化之间使用了话语区别。挑战限制性性别规范的传统。受到对日常生活宗教和伊斯兰教的研究的启发，我们展示了妇女如何在其中产阶级身份形成的支持下，建立文化/宗教二分法，将伊斯兰的话语领域变成与自己的家人和更广泛的世代相传的一种资源社区。解决有关欧洲穆斯林的研究文献中的空白，