Lägg till bokmärkePolitics 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 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 t... (show more)
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 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? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.
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the book addresses some of the concepts raised by the integration of women in the Islamic movement that challenge the thinking of liberal and secular in general and feminist theory in particular, through a field study of the movement of women in mosques relay. Where women hold for the first time in the history of Egypt and the massive numbers of public meetings in mosques To study in Islamic beliefs, which resulted in a change in personality pervades the patriarchal mosques in Islamic art ed... (show more)
the book addresses some of the concepts raised by the integration of women in the Islamic movement that challenge the thinking of liberal and secular in general and feminist theory in particular, through a field study of the movement of women in mosques relay. Where women hold for the first time in the history of Egypt and the massive numbers of public meetings in mosques To study in Islamic beliefs, which resulted in a change in personality pervades the patriarchal mosques in Islamic art education, as the nodal and verbal questions as they were issued by clerics men are being discussed today among women in the context of non-specialized courses mosques that were programmed to some extent by protocol Recent speeches and teachings, and discusses women in an open course of their daily lives more precise details of homogeneity with the requirements of Islamic piety. " (show less)
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this book is amazing! saba is additionally a phenomenal teacher who inspired me to think every time i sat in her classroom. one of the most important books on agency, feminism, or islam in recent years.
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