Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies

Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://tifoislam.dk/ Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies (SJIS) is an online journal that publishes articles on Muslims and Islam in Scandinavia (irrespective of the author’s affiliation with a Scandinavian university) and research on Muslims and Islam in the world by researchers affiliated with a Scandinavian university. The journal is published twice a year by Forum for Islamforskning (FIFO) with funding from Independent Research Fund Denmark. The first issue of the journal was published on 17 October 2006. en-US Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies publish under creative commons license BY-NC-SA. tifo.redaktion@gmail.com (Jesper Petersen) tifo.redaktion@gmail.com (Jesper Petersen) Tue, 06 May 2025 13:22:39 +0200 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Preface https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156993 Preface Ingvild Flaskerud Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156993 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Islam, Art, and Popular Culture https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156996 Islam, Art, and Popular Culture Douglas Mattsson, Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156996 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Muslimer, jøder og kristne i samspil, dialog og på motorcykel https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156997 This article explores and identifies an organized and collective type of (inter)religious movement, that evolves around coexistence and interreligious relations, expressing themselves through aesthetics, dialogue, motorcycles and/or music. It seeks to explore the concept religious coexistence, based on empirical studies of groups in Copenhagen that work with interreligious activities, dialogue and relations – Goldschmidts Musikakademi, Islamisk-Kristent Studiecenter and MuJu & Co. MC Danmark. I argue that these groups are examples of a type of interreligious lived religion drawing on theoretical perspectives from Meredith B. McGuire, Brian A. Jacobsen and Nancy T. Ammerman. Second, I find that the groups have similar understandings of religious coexistence as a form of knowledge. However, they differ in their methods of achieving it, using respectively verbal and non-verbal communication strategies, which I explain drawing on Sara Ahmed’s affect theoretical framework. Alma Munk Kronik Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156997 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Grace & Poise: A Muslim ballet school in the UK https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156998 Grace & Poise Academy is a Muslim ballet school with a unique syllabus where students dance to poetry, not music, expectations of female modesty among parents, teachers and students are met and attention is paid to Islamic theology and morals. While cultivating Islamic adab (etiquette), akhlaq (ethics) and Islamic pedagogies, the academy is also inspired by classical ballet training and alternative holistic educational traditions. The result is both traditionalist and progressive, and points to a possible future for Islamic creativity, signalling openings rather than closures. The research for this article is based on interviews, media analyses and participant observation. Jonas Otterbeck Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/156998 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Visual Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Modern Iranian Public Sphere: The resemiotization of Twelver Shiite Culture in the Mobilization of Protest https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157000 To contest the results of the Iranian presidential election in 2009, mobilize street protest, and document the regime’s responses protesters disseminated posters, photographs, and films on social media platforms. In this article I discuss how their use of signs associated with Twelver Shiite visual, material and performative culture were used to mobilize opposition against authorities who claim to be acting as guardians of a society based on the creed. By giving attention to signs’ coexisting discursive contexts and modality, the study seeks to advance the conceptualization of ‘recontextualization’ and ‘resemiotization’ in the semiotic study of cultural codes, and to connect the study of Twelver Shiite visual, material and performative culture to the sphere of public discourse in modern Iran. Ingvild Flaskerud Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157000 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Religion på museer i de arabiske Golf-stater – islam og universalisme https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157002 This article focuses on how religion is exhibited in new museums in the Arab Gulf states. The article focuses in particular on the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a ranch of the Louvre Paris, which opened in 2017 with the ambition of being a ‘universal’ museum that, among other things, makes religion central to the history of civilizations and innovatively, both in the Gulf but also in general, exhibits different religions side by side. In recent years, a number of new, large museums have been built in the Arab Gulf states – and more are on the way. The Louvre is part of Abu Dhabi’s launch of several different museums on Saadiyat Island, and Qatar is known for its Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and a spectacular National Museum. The article also shows how these new museums further develop a museum tradition which was founded in the first years of the Gulf states as independent states, among other things with great involvement from archeology and anthropology in Aarhus. Thomas Fibiger Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157002 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200 “Meet the Doctor “ – Interview with Gustav Larsson https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157001 “Meet the Doctor “ – Interview with Gustav Larsson Douglas Mattsson Copyright (c) 2025 Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://tifoislam.dk/article/view/157001 Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200