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  • Politics of Pietyby Saba Mahmood

    Princeton University Press 2004; US$ 27.95

    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... more...

  • Politics of Pietyby Saba Mahmood

    Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 24.95

    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... more...

  • Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossipby Pamela J. Stewart; Andrew Strathern; Olivia J. Harris; Michael Lambek; Saba Mahmood; Jonathan Spencer

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00

    This book combines the study of witchcraft and sorcery with the study of rumours and gossip, and explains the role of rumour and gossip in the genesis of social and political violence. Examples are drawn from Africa, Europe, India, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. more...

  • After Kinshipby Janet Carsten; Olivia J. Harris; Michael Lambek; Saba Mahmood; Jonathan Spencer

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 28.00

    Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? Janet Carsten gives an approachable and original view of the past, present, and future of kinship in anthropology, which will be of interest not just to anthropologists but to social scientists generally. more...

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