Muslim diversity: local Islam in global contexts -- Global migrants and local shrines: the shifting geography of Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh -- The theological construction of conflict: Gilgit, Northern Pakistan -- Jihad in West Africa: a global theme in a regional setting -- The Salafiyya movement in Northwest China: Islamic fundamentalism among the Muslim Chinese? -- To colour, not oppose: spreading Islam in rural Java -- Faith and identity in Northeast Syria -- The mosque and the sacred mountain: duality of religious beliefs among the Zaghawa of Northwestern Sudan -- On becoming Muslim: the construction of identities among the Lafofa of the Sudan -- Afterword: the compartive study of Muslim societies.