This Fieldnote challenges scholars of Islam and Muslims to consider how the production of knowledge on Islam and Muslims has long been, and continues to be, intimately associated with projects of governance, whether by the modern state or premodern regime. The present is simply a particularly robust historical period during which, wherever one might stand on the political spectrum, the study of Islam is undertaken in the shadow of the state—a disaggregated project of law and justice, border control, national security, and regulation. This Fieldnote recasts Islam and Muslim in an adjectival sense—‘Islamic’ and ‘Muslim’—in order to highlight their variability in relation to the purposes for which they are deployed. To better understand the dynamics by which the ‘Islamic’ is deployed for purposes of state projects, this Fieldnote outlines four registers of analysis—time, space, scale, and rhetoric—to inspire new research on the production of knowledge in the academic study of Islam and Muslims today.

本主题演讲向伊斯兰教和穆斯林的学者提出挑战，以考虑有关伊斯兰教和穆斯林的知识的产生如何与现代政府或前现代政权的治理项目长期保持紧密联系，并将继续与之紧密联系。当前只是一个特别活跃的历史时期，在这个时期中，无论哪个人站在哪个政治领域，伊斯兰教的研究都是在国家的阴影下进行的—法律和正义，边界控制，国家安全和监管的分类项目。本主题演讲从形容词的意义上重铸了伊斯兰和穆斯林（“伊斯兰”和“穆斯林”），以突出其在部署目的方面的可变性。为了更好地了解为国家项目目的而部署“伊斯兰”的动力，