The Bosnian war of the 1990s caused an unprecedented breakdown of the multiethnic social order, while displacement due to ethnic cleansing and genocide against its Muslim population, changed the Bosnian demographic and socio-cultural landscape permanently.This research seeks to understand how ordinary Muslims responded to such devastating events with their religious choices, and the implications such choices carry for ethical life in a postwar context. Based on ethnographic fieldwork (2015-2017) with a Naqshbandi Sufi community in Sarajevo which took a leading role in the revitalisation of Sufi Islam in the country, the research analysed how Sufism emerged as a practice of ethical self-cultivation to address the cultural and personal traumas of war and postwar precarity. Cohering around a frequently evoked Sufi aphorism “The Sufi is the child of the present moment” it demonstrated how revitalisation of religious traditions can be successful when they show relevance for everyday life. This aphorism of the “present moment” captured the importance of renegotiating the Prophetic ideal in the present, rather than emulating the first generations of Muslims, an act associated with conservative Muslim groups. However, “the present moment” also meant becoming psychologically well which elevated Sufism to a wellbeing practice. In this nexus of negotiation, I sought to understand postwar religious subjectivities and their social relevance in a polarised interethnic and intra-Muslim environment. This investigation showed that forms of sociality observably emerging from Sufi religious orthopraxy, associated with the language of adab (noble conduct), are concerned with how Islam is performed publicly and presented to others. Therefore, the project aligns with the ISRF values by addressing how respect for diversity, and acceptance of the “other” are understood from within an Islamic tradition that accentuates this Muslim concept of adab. It signifies at once a relationship to Divine authority and an accommodation of pluralism and difference.