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"Folk Islam" as a book-category describes works that examine the everyday, local and popular expressions of Islamic belief and practice outside or alongside formal theology and institutional religion. These books focus on lived religion—rituals, shrine and saint veneration, pilgrimage, miracle stories, amulets and Qur’anic talismans, healing, magical practices, seasonal festivals, oral narratives and proverbs, and syncretic customs that blend Islam with pre‑existing local traditions—across regions such as South and Southeast Asia, West Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia. The category includes ethnographies, folklore collections, regional histories, memoirs, and cultural studies that highlight material culture, performance, and popular piety, often using interdisciplinary methods from anthropology, history, religious studies, and literary studies to illuminate how ordinary people experience, adapt, and negotiate Islam in daily life.

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