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Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood is associate professor of social cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Princeton University Press, 2005) won the American Political Science Association Victoria Schuck Award in 2005. She has been an advisory board member of the Critical Theory Initiative and Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley since 2004. Her publications include “Secularism, Hermeneutics, Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation,” Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2006), “Ethical Formation and Politics of Individual Autonomy in Contemporary Egypt,” Social Research (2003), “Questioning Liberalism, Too: A Response to ‘Islam and the Challenge of Democracy,’” Boston Review: A Political and Literary Forum (Aril/May 2003), “Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counter-Insurgency” (with Charles Hirschkind), Anthropological Quarterly (2002), and “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival,” Cultural Anthropology (2001), which won the Cultural Horizon Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology in 2002.

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