The case study aims to provide a detailed picture of what is a ‘silent’ and always ignored voice, both by scientific research and the media, of Italian Islam: that of the Albanian community. The Albanian community expresses a ‘Balkan’ Islam, which is in itself an alternative and a minority, and also for this reason has remained less expressed, compared to that which dominates the main Muslim organisations in the country, generally linked to the macro-regions of North Africa and South Asia.
In the study on Albanian Muslims in Italy, the main qualitative methods of anthropological research will be adopted:
prolonged field research, participant observation, semi-structured and in-depth interviews, aimed at reconstructing life histories and trajectories, with particular regard to religious dynamics- both in the sense of greater and lesser practice and/or faith than in the past.
In the study on Albanian Muslims in Italy, the main qualitative methods of anthropological research will be adopted:
prolonged field research, participant observation, semi-structured and in-depth interviews, aimed at reconstructing life histories and trajectories, with particular regard to religious dynamics- both in the sense of greater and lesser practice and/or faith than in the past.
