Politics of piety : the Islamic revival and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood.

Author/creator Mahmood, Saba, 1962-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
Description1 online resource (xvi, 233 p. ; 24 cm.)
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1666374
Subjects
Feminism--Religious aspects. --Islam.
Feminism--Islamic countries.
Gender identity--Islamic countries.
Islamic renewal--Egypt. --Cairo. --Case studies.
Muslim women--Egypt. --Cairo. --Religious life. --Case studies.
Women in Islam.

Contents The 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.
General noteBased on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-223) and index.