Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this b
Case studies
1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages)
9780691086941, 9780691086958, 9781400824564, 9781282569331, 069108694X, 0691086958, 1400824567, 1282569333
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The subject of freedom
Topography of the piety movement
Pedagogies of persuasion
Positive ethics and ritual conventions
Agency, gender, and embodiment
Epilogue
Glossary of commonly used Arabic terms
Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)