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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,new Delhi-110002 _c;112482 _d;07/07/2018
082			_a305.4869 MAH
100			_aSaba Mahmood
245			_aPolitics of piety _b: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject _c/Saba Mahmood
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. _b: Princeton University Press _c, 2012.
300			_axxviii, 233 _c; 25 cm
505			_aThe subject of freedom -- Topography of the piety movement -- Pedagogies of persuasion -- Positive ethics and ritual conventions -- Agency, gender, and embodiment -- Epilogue -- Glossary of commonly used Arabic terms.
520			_a From the publisher. 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? 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. In a substantial new preface, Mahmood addresses the controversy sparked by the original publication of her book and the scholarly discussions that have ensued.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aFeminism--Religious aspects--Islam _bWomen in Islam
700			_aSaba Mahmood
942			_cBOOK
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