"Turkish-Muslim Identity from a Japanese Academic Perspective: An Autoethnographic Inquiry," Eskiyeni

In this article the author presents an autoethnographic reflection on Turkish-Muslim identity through the lived experience of a Japanese anthropologist himself who embraced Islam and has made Turkey his home for nearly two decades. Rather than treating personal narrative as anecdotal memory, the study takes it as a valuable site of knowledge production, where individual experience intersects with larger cultural and social dynamics. At the same time, drawing on the principles of autoethnography and reflexive anthropology, the paper situates the author’s own trajectory as both a methodological tool and an ethnographic text in its own right. This article looks at how the experience of religious conversion unfolds in social, emotional, and intellectual terms. It pays special attention to the ...