This article is a review of Islam Obscured by Daniel Martin Varisco. It highlights some of Varisco's important observations as he examines ethnographies of some of the most prominent figures in anthropology in the latter half of the 20th century. The essay takes issue with some of Varisco's recommendations for improving representations of Islam, such as his exclusive emphasis on fieldwork, wholesale rejection of religious texts and Orientalist scholarship, and most importantly, his neglect of theory, particularly as regards Sufism. The essay calls for developing a new theory in anthropology - drawn from transpersonal psychology - as a means of avoiding previous ethnocentric and reductive approaches to the study of mysticism.
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机译：本文是由丹尼尔·马丁·瓦里斯科（Daniel Martin Varisco）撰写的《伊斯兰教被遮盖》的评论。当他检查20世纪下半叶人类学中一些最杰出人物的人种志时，它突出了Varisco的一些重要观察。这篇文章提出了瓦雷斯科关于改善伊斯兰教代表性的一些建议，例如他对田野调查的特别强调，对宗教文本和东方学的全面拒绝，以及最重要的是他对理论的忽视，特别是对苏菲派的忽视。这篇文章呼吁发展一种人类学的新理论，该理论取材于超个人心理学，以此作为避免对神秘主义进行研究的先前以人为本和还原的方法。
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