Islam in Italy

Five women of the Islamic faith, each with a different journey and story. They are a new face in an Italian society in transformation. They recount difficulties and misunderstandings but also the achievements of their civic engagement.

The shift in the Muslim migrants’ religious affiliation from the private sphere to the public one has been marked by an evolution in the meaning to be attributed to the word “community”, with the old one now being called into question by a new generation of Muslims

From the student publications of the 1970s to the works based on Sufism, the panorama of a rich and detailed production that reflects the diversities and the contradictions of the various souls of Islam in the peninsula.