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Koranic study circles are more than ever present in Europe. Where does their success spring from? What is the special character of the women’s groups? To attempt to reply to these questions, this article goes back over some fieldwork, an ethnographic enquiry made in the North African community in Brussels at the end of the 20th century. It concentrates on several female Koranic collectives situated in two immigrant quarters of the town. The author attempts to show how the Islam of the diaspora at work in these circles creates a space that is both hospitable and formative, at the heart of a female community fragilised in its capacity to communicate and to make connections. Mixed in composition and innovative, these collectives rely on an original domestication of the text of the Koran, and at the same time appeal to a religious understanding that has traditional roots in physicality and in ritual.