Recent studies on Islam in Southern Italy1 have highlighted how segments of the Muslim communities are systematically integrated into contexts characterized by job insecurity, mobility, and partial visibility. In Salerno,2 for example, the exploitation linked to the caporalato system (Avallone 2017) and difficulties in accessing services limit the time and commitment that believers dedicate to extra- canonical activities. Moreover, informality and marginalization distance local Muslim communities from federative initiatives and religious discourses (Sbai 2021) promoted by representative Islamic denominations.3 Although the Salerno muṣallayāt tend to remain relatively autonomous from negotiations at the national level, they cannot be considered isolated entities. Each locally situated community is connected to transnational networks through the circulation of texts and knowledge (Green 2020). Local religious authorities (Sunier 2023), in fact, make specific choices about the discourses they promote, sometimes inspired by scholars within the Muslim Brotherhood network, at other times by Indian or Egyptian reformers, and even by versions of "official Islam" (El-Katiri 2013), such as the Moroccan one. This paper aims to identify the links between local religious authorities with transnational organizations, starting from the analysis of the discourses they propose. The collection of interviews, the Friday ḫuṭba, and the texts found in the muṣallayāt represent, in this sense, the empirical material where these connections can be investigated. Preliminary results show that some imams lack formal training and often extract entire discourses from online sources. Alongside them, there are travelling imams (Rhazzali 2018) who are committed to promoting a bottom-up re-Islamization with the goal of bringing the faithful closer to their movement.