Politics of Piety- The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Saba Mahmood

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton University Press 2011ISBN:

9780691149806

Subject(s):

Feminism--Islamic countriesMuslim women--Religious life--Egypt--Cairo--Case studies

LOC classification:

HQ1785 .M34 2012

Summary: A 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.

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Book	SAF Reference Library	DS1-937	DS1-937 52.378 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		D410

A 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.

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