British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition, in a landscape marked by war and international relief efforts? Considered ethnographically, iṣlāḥ organizes heterogeneous practices, including charitable giving, political defiance, and ethical contestation. It is thus irreducible to either (religious) charity or to its oft‐purported opposite, (political) solidarity. Further, it reveals the embedded secularity of such oppositions, which shapes the reasoning of both the British security state and social scientific commentary.

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 “奇怪”的亲和力


在叙利亚的英国穆斯林志愿者被各种各样地描绘成人道主义者、活动家，以及——在反恐战争的可疑目光下——伪装的武装分子。然而，许多志愿者将他们的努力视为 iṣlāḥ（改革、修复、整顿）的尝试。在以战争和国际救援努力为标志的背景下，伊斯兰传统中的多元概念“伊斯兰”的伦理政治生活是什么？从民族志的角度来看，伊斯兰组织组织了异质性的实践，包括慈善捐赠、政治反抗和道德争论。因此，它不能简化为（宗教）慈善或其经常声称的对立面（政治）团结。此外，它揭示了此类反对派的内在世俗性，这塑造了英国安全国家和社会科学评论的推理。