ISBN:
9780691149806
,
0691149801
Language:
English
Pages:
xxviii, 233 Seiten
,
25 cm
Edition:
Paperback reissue with a new preface by the author
Series Statement:
Anthropology - Middle East studies - women's studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mahmood, Saba, 1962 - 2018 Politics of piety
DDC:
305.48697
Keywords:
Feminism
;
Muslim women Case studies Religious life
;
Islamic renewal Case studies
;
Feminism Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Women in Islam
;
Gender identity
;
Ägypten
;
Frömmigkeit
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Muslimin
;
Ägypten
;
Muslimin
;
Frömmigkeit
;
Frauenbewegung
Abstract:
"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?
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-223. - Index
,
Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998)
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