Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Name: Politics of Piety The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
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ISBN: 9780691086958

ISBN-10: 0691086958

ISBN-13: 9780691086958

Edition: 2005

Authors: Saba Mahmood

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Politics of Pietyis 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 book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Transcription



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


References


Index