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Mahmood writing in english and translating the muslim traditions, religious rituals, and quranic verses to arabic, adds so much to books credibility and makes it easy for the reader, whether. Pakistani anthropologist saba mahmood began her field research among muslim womens revival dawa, arabic call movements in cairo in 1995 with a number of admitted preconceptions. Saba mahmood, politics of piety, the islamic revival and the. Politics of piety the islamic revival and the feminist subject saba mahmood. Saba analyses the role of piety as an ethical practice in spiritual pursuit reflected in part by the. Saba mahmoods 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.
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