Politics of piety the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
"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 refo...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton, NJ, Oxford
Princeton University Press
2012
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| Ausgabe: | Paperback reissue |
| Schriftenreihe: | Anthropology - Middle East studies - women's studies
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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? |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-223. - Index Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998) |
| Beschreibung: | xxviii, 233 Seiten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780691149806 978-0-691-14980-6 0691149801 0-691-14980-1 |