Women's Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation
What if I told you that Islam was sent down to abolish religion?
'The Subject of Freedom' is the first chapter of Saba Mahmood's book Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Politics of Piety has been heralded as a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt
Being a practicing Muslim mother working for a secular domestic violence NGO in London – alongside women from all kinds of diverse backgrounds – may appear to outsiders to be in some ways contradic