Being good in Ramadan: ambivalence, fragmentation, and the moral self in the lives of young Egyptians

So much has been written in recent years on Muslims who consciously and consistently aim to be pious, moral, and disciplined that the vast majority of Muslims who – like most of humankind – are sometimes but not always pious, at times immoral, and often undisciplined have remained in the shadow of an image of Islam as a perfectionist project of self‐discipline. Taking the month of Ramadan, as a time of exceptional piety, as a starting‐point,...