Methods and methodology.

Adopting a multi-/inter-disciplinary cross-national comparative approach, MISLAM unveils the majers arising when law is diffused, legal provisions are transplanted across different jurisdictions, and social praxes are translated into concrete actions, in diverse environments, in various countries.

Relying upon a reality-conscious (extra-)judicial approach, MISLAM pursues the investigation of contemporary socio-legal developments by adopting a pluralistic approach and an inter-legal method, combining top-down and bottom-up analyses in a polycentric scenario.

Desk-research is enriched by etic/emic empirical scrutiny and ethnographic investigations. The researchers rely upon qualitative social-science research methods and extended (trouble-)case method. The lives of individuals embedded in multi-layered and multi-sited transnational social fields are then unpacked by conducting comparative analyses at micro-, meso- and macro-levels.