Abstract
This article is a review of Islam Obscured by Daniel Martin Varisco. It highlights some of Varisco's important observations as he examines ethnographies of some of the most prominent figures in anthropology in the latter half of the 20th century. The essay takes issue with some of Varisco's recommendations for improving representations of Islam, such as his exclusive emphasis on fieldwork, wholesale rejection of religious texts and Orientalist scholarship, and most importantly, his neglect of theory, particularly as regards Sufism. The essay calls for developing a new theory in anthropology – drawn from transpersonal psychology – as a means of avoiding previous ethnocentric and reductive approaches to the study of mysticism.
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