"Do not cross your legs" Islamic sociability, reciprocity and brotherhood in Turkey

Based on intense fieldwork inside the Islamic preaching-educational community of Fethullah Gülen in Istanbul, the paper explores the way Islamic sociability forms structure daily interactions and foster connectedeness among the religious brotherhood there. In a counterweight to what I see as an excess of emphasis that recent trends in the anthropology of Islam have put on notions of Islamic discipline and ethical self-fashioning, I offer an alternative perspective from which to look at how devout Muslims experience Islam and come to inhabit particular conceptions of self and personhood.