The Resource Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject, Saba Mahmood
Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject, Saba Mahmood
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- Summary
- 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 principles 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? -- Publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 233 pages
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9780691086958
- Label
- Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
- Title
- Politics of piety
- Title remainder
- the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
- Statement of responsibility
- Saba Mahmood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 principles 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? -- Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mahmood, Saba
- Dewey number
- 305.48/697/096216
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ1785
- LC item number
- .M34 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Feminism
- Muslim women
- Islamic renewal
- Feminism
- Women in Islam
- Gender identity
- Muslim women
- Label
- Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject, Saba Mahmood
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-223) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 54096953
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 233 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691086958
- Isbn Type
- (pb : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004044289
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject, Saba Mahmood
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-223) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 54096953
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 233 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691086958
- Isbn Type
- (pb : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2004044289
- Media category
- unmediated
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