Politics of Piety : : The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / / Saba Mahmood.
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 move...
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Mahmood, Saba, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Politics of Piety : The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject / Saba Mahmood. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2012 Edition -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION -- 1. The Subject of Freedom -- 2. Topography of the Piety Movement -- 3. Pedagogies of Persuasion -- 4. Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions -- 5. Agency, Gender, and Embodiment -- EPILOGUE -- Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism. In a substantial new preface, Mahmood addresses the controversy sparked by the original publication of her book and the scholarly discussions that have ensued. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Feminism - Islamic countries. Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam. Feminism -- Islamic countries. Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Feminism Religious aspects Islam. Feminism Islamic countries. Gender identity - Islamic countries. Gender identity -- Islamic countries. Gender identity Islamic countries. Islamic renewal - Egypt - Cairo. Islamic renewal -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Case studies. Islamic renewal Egypt Cairo Case studies. Muslim women Religious life Egypt Cairo Case studies. Women in Islam. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691149806 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839919?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400839919 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400839919.jpg |
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