COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE 2012 EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTION; CHAPTER 1 The Subject of Freedom; CHAPTER 2 Topography of the Piety Movement; CHAPTER 3 Pedagogies of Persuasion; CHAPTER 4 Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions; CHAPTER 5 Agency, Gender, and Embodiment; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY OF COMMONLY USED ARABIC TERMS; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary
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 b
