It is a fine book that will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, and sociolinguists, as well as any social scientist interested in contemporary Islamic society.

- Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon,

This volume by Baudouin Dupret is immensely interesting and informative, and, more significantly, it is very original in not only its substantive areas of analysis, but, and here is the nub of its genuine originality, its focus upon a way of thinking about ethnomethodology which uses it as a way of describing the logic of recurrent social situations in many different contexts and circumstances. This is definitely a huge contribution. [...] A really illuminating piece of scholarship. We are truly fortunate to have this level of work addressed to issues in our field.

- Jeff Coulter, Boston University,

Baudouin Dupret’s book brings together a fascinating series of studies dealing with a diversity of settings and cases. Their conceptual link lies in the situated practices for managing and establishing truth. The book raises several interesting challenges. [...] These challenges make the book very stimulating. If it is not sure that truth always represents the core issue of all of the practices studied, it is sure that the book offers an important development of the ethnomethodological perspective on key contemporary topics such as the establishment, contestation, reproduction of norms, standards, values, identity, normality, morality and truth.

- Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel, in Journal of Language and Politics Vol. 15:4 (2016),