Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Preface to the 2012 Edition ix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv Note on Transcription xxix CHAPTER 1: The Subject of Freedom 1 CHAPTER 2: Topography of the Piety Movement 40 CHAPTER 3: Pedagogies of Persuasion 79 CHAPTER 4: Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions 118 CHAPTER 5: Agency, Gender, and Embodiment 153 Epilogue 189 Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms 201 References 205 Index 225

Winner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "Mahmood's book is a tour de force that provides an alternative prism through which we may understand the women's mosque movement in Egypt."--Cynthia Nelson, Middle East Journal

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Preface to the 2012 Edition ix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv Note on Transcription xxix CHAPTER 1: The Subject of Freedom 1 CHAPTER 2: Topography of the Piety Movement 40 CHAPTER 3: Pedagogies of Persuasion 79 CHAPTER 4: Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions 118 CHAPTER 5: Agency, Gender, and Embodiment 153 Epilogue 189 Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms 201 References 205 Index 225

Winner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "Mahmood's book is a tour de force that provides an alternative prism through which we may understand the women's mosque movement in Egypt."--Cynthia Nelson, Middle East Journal

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Preface to the 2012 Edition ix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv Note on Transcription xxix CHAPTER 1: The Subject of Freedom 1 CHAPTER 2: Topography of the Piety Movement 40 CHAPTER 3: Pedagogies of Persuasion 79 CHAPTER 4: Positive Ethics and Ritual Conventions 118 CHAPTER 5: Agency, Gender, and Embodiment 153 Epilogue 189 Glossary of Commonly Used Arabic Terms 201 References 205 Index 225

Winner of the 2005 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association "Mahmood's book is a tour de force that provides an alternative prism through which we may understand the women's mosque movement in Egypt."--Cynthia Nelson, Middle East Journal