Abstract
The article below – a text for which the two authors disguised themselves as orthodox Muslims in order to gauge the depth and the impact of Islamophobic reactions in everyday life in the UK – evoked strikingly different reviews, varying from quite negative to more positive. Rather than making a choice as editors we felt that the text, together with comments by the reviewers, raised urgent questions in relation to auto-ethnography regarding its rules, its pros and cons, and its broader epistemological implications. We therefore decided to publish the text together with the reviewers’ comments and the subsequent reaction by the authors in the hope of stimulating further debate on these issues.
We thank the reviewers for their additional work on the reviews and the article’s authors for their patience.