Politics of Piety : : The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Mahmood, Saba,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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