International audienceThe new meanings of Muslim sacrifice. An ethnography of ritual change in Istanbul (Turquie)Exploring some of the contemporary shapes of the muslim sacrifice, drawing from ethnographic fieldworks conducted in Istanbul (Turkey), this paper questions the relationship between ritual and change by confronting a ritual pattern to its adaptations and transformations. The selected examples illustrate the tension between a sacrificial imagination marked by the repetition and enacting of a foundational and examplar gesture (the ibrahimian sacrifice), and a set of concrete conditions and external constraints which at once redefine deeply, and reactivate under new forms the sacrificial rituality. After focusing on the main charact...