Kathryn Spellman-Poots is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, author of Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain (Berghahn Publishers, Oxford and New York, 2005) and co-editor of Spellman-Poots, K., Dupret, B. Pinto, P., and Pierret, T. edited volume Ethnographies of Islam:Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices (Edinburgh University Press March 2012)