false 66421 2 <p><i>Politics of Piety</i> 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.</p><p>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? <i>Politics of Piety</i> is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.</p> 64406 25 10 2004 Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject total:80|5:29|4:36|3:12|2:3|1:0| 80 331 140 14 0 1 false false Tue May 29 05:47:13 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 05:47:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 17:22:06 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 19:56:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 16:55:28 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 16:55:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 21:14:18 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 21:18:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:41:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 13:01:04 -0700 2009
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