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

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

Saba Mahmood

233 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction feminism religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ...

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