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Saba Mahmood
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 39
Citations - 5428
Saba Mahmood is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Secularism. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 39 publications receiving 5122 citations. Previous affiliations of Saba Mahmood include University of Chicago.
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
TL;DR: In this article, the subject of freedom is discussed and the topography of the Piety Movement is described. And the authors present a glossary of commonly used Arabic terms for Arabic terms.
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Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival
TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual challenges that women's participation in the Islamic movement poses to feminist theorists and gender analysts through an ethnographic account of an urban women's mosque movement that is part of the larger Islamic revival in Cairo, Egypt.
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Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine both the particular conception of secularism that underlies the current consensus that Islam needs to be reformed and the strategic means by which this programmatic vision is being instituted today.
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Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of religion in the present moment must countenance the shrill polemics that have followed from the events of the past decade, including 9/11, the subsequent war on terror and the rise of religious politics globally.
Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech - eScholarship
TL;DR: In this article, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values, taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, and inquire into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views.