My postdoctoral research in Egypt (2016-2019, 2023, 2024) focused on religious and non-religious identities, family structures, and intergenerational negotiations of Islamic norms. The monograph innovatively highlights the intimate spaces of (non-)conformism and the emotional struggles of identity and self-configuration, examining these transformations by combining historical perspectives with extensive ethnographic fieldwork and literary analysis of Arabic sources. It allows me to showcase the heterogeneity of Muslim lifeworlds in the form of everyday stories with their literary productions and religious interpretations and to make the multi-layered, cross-generational, and gender-related processes of individualization visible. Differentiated social transformation processes are thus reflected in direct exchange with people from the region. To be published with Göttingen University Press.