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This article presents results of an ethnographic case study dealing with a conflict on minaret building & the call for prayer in a small German town. The author had the opportunity to observe the conflict, which was enacted in the context of several neighborhood assemblies in which Muslim & non-Muslim neighbors came together. His analysis shows that the dynamic of the conflict is shaped by arguments that rely simultaneously on formal law & deeply embedded rules of hospitality. These two dimensions & further modern forms of discourse act together in this conflict, which becomes a sort of a modern ritual of incorporation. This in turn comes very close to rituals of incorporation of strangers that are well known & widely studied by modern ethnographers. 19 References. Adapted from the source document.