Saba Mahmood  

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Saba Mahmood (1961–2018) was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she was also affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory. Her scholarly work straddled debates in anthropology and political theory, with a focus on Muslim majority societies of the Middle East and South Asia. Mahmood made major theoretical contributions to rethinking the relationship between ethics and politics, religion and secularism, freedom and submission, and reason and embodiment. Influenced by the work of Talal Asad, she wrote on issues of gender, religious politics, secularism, and Muslim and non-Muslim relations in the Middle East.

Bibliography

Books

• The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012 (First edition: 2005).
• Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech. With Talal Asad, Wendy Brown and Judith Butler. Fordham University Press, 2013. (First edition published by the University of California Press, 2009).
• Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Edited books and journals

• "Contested Polities: Religious Disciplines and Structures of Modernity", Stanford Humanities Review (special issue, with Nancy Reynolds) 5:1, 1995.
• "Religious Liberty and Secular Politics", The South Atlantic Quarterly (special issue, with Peter Danchin), 113(1), 2014.
• Politics of Religious Freedom. (Co-edited with Winifred Sullivan, Elizabeth Hurd, and Peter Danchin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Chapters in books

• "Anthropology and the Study of Women in Muslim Societies (disciplinary entry on Anthropology)", Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Suad Joseph, ed., Brill Publishers, 2003.
• "Agency, Performativity, and the Feminist Subject", Bodily Citations: Religionists Engage with Judith Butler, Ellen Armour, ed., Columbia University Press, 2006.
• "Feminism and Human Rights: Interview with Saba Mahmood", The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power, Nermeen Sheikh, ed., Columbia University Press, 2008.
• "Feminism, Democracy, and Empire: Islam and the War of Terror", Women Studies on the Edge, Joan W. Scott, ed., Duke University Press, 2009.
• "Can Secularism be Other-wise?", Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun eds., Harvard University Press, 2010.
• "Ethics and Piety", A Companion to Moral Anthropology, Didier Fassin, ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• "Introduction" (with Wendy Brown and Judith Butler), Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech. Fordham University Press (new edition, 2013).
• "Sexuality and Secularism", Gendering the Divide: Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference, Linell Cady and Tracy Fessenden, eds. (Columbia University Press, 2014).
• "Religious Freedom, Minority Rights and Geopolitics", Politics of Religious Freedom, Sullivan, Hurd, Mahmood and Danchin, eds.  (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
• "Preface" (to book-section on "Freedom"), Politics of Religious Freedom, Sullivan, Hurd, Mahmood and Danchin, eds.  (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
• "Introduction" (with W. Sullivan, E. Hurd, and P. Danchin), Politics of Religious Freedom, Sullivan, Hurd, Mahmood and Danchin, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2015).

Articles

• "Retooling Democracy and Feminism in the Service of the New Empire" Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Summer 2006).

See also

• Berlin Prize
• The Immanent Frame