Managing Spoiled Identity

Beata Abdallah-Krzepkowska, Ph.D. (2007), University of Silesia, is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia. She has published articles on Islam and the religious language used by Polish Muslims.Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, PhD (2007), SGH Warsaw School of Economics, habilitation (2015), Jagiellonian University, is Associate Professor at SGH Warsaw School of Economics. She has published on Islam in Poland and implemented research and educational projects funded by the European Commission, UNESCO, or the Polish MFA. Joanna Krotofil, Ph.D. (2012), Jagiellonian University, is Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Studies of Religion, Jagiellonian University. She has published a number of articles on conversion to Islam and the relationship between religion and identity. Anna Piela, Ph.D. (2010), Northwestern University, is Visiting Scholar of Islam and gender at that university. She has published monographs and many articles on Islam and gender, including Wearing the Niqab: Muslim Women in the UK and the US (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on AuthorsIntroduction1 Setting the Scene: Islam in Poland2 The Socio-Demographic Profile of Survey Respondents3 Old and New Connections: Religious and Cultural Belonging Post-conversion among Polish Female Converts to Islam in the UK4 Polish Platonic Islamophobia5 Language of Polish Female Converts to Islam6 Converted Bodies: Interior Life and Embodied Religious Practices of Polish Female Converts to Islam7 From a ‘Salafi Bite’ to the ‘Middle Way’ConclusionsGlossaryIndex