Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
by Saba Mahmood
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages233 pages
ISBN
9780691086958
Published
2004
Description
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 ...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.