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Zora Kostadinova

Project Coordinator, Choosing Islamic Conservatism

Zora joined CIC as a temporary Project Coordinator in November 2023. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and an MA in Southeast European Studies from University College London. 

Her dissertation titled “Becoming a Good Person: Islam, the Self and the Ethical Imagination among Naqshbandi Muslims in Postwar Sarajevo” examines the relationship between religious subjectivities, historical temporalities, critical events, and ethics. Her research interests are in the revitalization of Sufi practices in Southeast Europe, Muslim subjectivities, and intergenerational transmission of Islamic knowledge. 

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