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Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning; experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study; Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the lifecycle rituals of Moroccan; Turkish and Surinamese Muslims in the Netherlands. She explores how Islamic rituals marking birth; circumcision; marriage; and death have responded and accommodated to the Dutch legal and social context. After clearly setting out the relevant Islamic legal prescriptions; Dessing draws on extensive fieldwork to chart how each ritual has evolved through migration; and compares the ritual practice in the Netherlands and the countries of origin. Dessing thus sheds valuable new light on the religious and cultural identities of Muslims in the Netherlands.