RT Book
T1 Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject
T2 Anthropology - Middle East studies - women's studies
A1 Mahmood, Saba 1962-2018
LA English
PP Princeton, NJ, Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2012
ED Paperback reissue
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1614928355
AB "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?
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-223. - Index
NO Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)
CN HQ1785
SN 978-0-691-14980-6
SN 0-691-14980-1
K1 Feminism : Islamic countries
K1 Muslim Women : Religious life : Egypt : Cairo : Case studies
K1 Islamic renewal : Egypt : Cairo : Case studies
K1 Feminism : Religious aspects : Islam
K1 Women in Islam
K1 Gender Identity : Islamic countries