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  • Religious Difference in a Secular Age

    A Minority Report

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minoritiesThe plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    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 inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

    Justice Beyond and Between

    by Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner, Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin, Ramona Naddaff, Kathryn Abrams0, Christopher Tomlins1, Sara Ludin2, Sarah Song3, Beth Piatote4, Daniel Fisher5, Samera Esmeir6, Rebecca McLennan7 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints.Looking ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • I Swallowed the Moon

    The Poetry of Gulzar

    by Saba Mahmood Bashir ...
    A comprehensive analysis of the work of one of India's foremost poets Gulzar is arguably the most well-known contemporary poet writing in Hindustani. As a poet he occupies a unique place being a Progressive poet in a popular culture. His poetry appeals to all strata of society, without compromising either on literary merit or on its ability to convey the most exalted thought in an accessible idiom ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Chand Nigal Gayi

    Gulzar Saab Ki Kavitayein

    by Saba Mahmood Bashir ...
    Gulzar is arguably the most well-known contemporary poet writing in Hindustani. He occupies a unique place by being a Progressive poet in a popular culture. His poetry appeals to all strata of society, without compromising either on literary merit or on its ability to convey the most exalted thought in an accessible idiom. In Chand Nigal Gayi, the Hindi translation of I Swallowed the Moon, Saba ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Gulzar's Aandhi

    Insights into the Film

    by Saba Mahmood Bashir ...
    At one level, Gulzar's Aandhi (1975) is a story of estranged love between two headstrong and individualistic personalities; at another, it is a tongue-in-cheek comment on the political scenario of the country. Through a close textual analysis of the film, this book examines in detail its stellar cast, the language and dialogues, and the evergreen songs which had a major role in making the film a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Is Critique Secular?

    Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

    by Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood, the Authors ...
    This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing conflicts of our times?Taking as their point of departure the question of whether critique belongs ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Politics of Religious Freedom

    Edited by Winnifred Fallers, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, Peter G. Danchin ...
    In a remarkably short period of time, the realization of religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the cultural and ... Read more

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  • The Impossible State

    Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

    by Wael Hallaq ...
    Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Secularism

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    This collection of essays presents groundbreaking work from an interdisciplinary group of leading theorists and scholars representing the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The volume will introduce readers to some of the most compelling new conceptual and theoretical understandings of secularism and the secular, while also examining socio-political ... Read more

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  • Formations of the Secular

    Christianity, Islam, Modernity

    by Talal Asad ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the "secular" in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this ... Read more

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