Politics of Piety
Subtitle: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780691086941
Subjects: Islamic Studies; Women's studies; Sociology; Islamic countries; Egypt; Social Science; Religious life; Islamic renewal; Anthropology - Cultural; Women's Studies - General; Anthropology; Gender Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Religion; Social Science / Islamic Studies; Case studies; Cairo; Feminism; Muslim women
First sentence: Even though this book is about Islamist politics in Egypt, its genesis owes to a set of puzzles I inherited from my involvement in progressive left politics in Pakistan, the country of my birth.