Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood
โ Scribed by SHERINE HAMDY
- Book ID
- 109238327
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0094-0496
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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
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