Egypt mosque construction rose 330 percent between 1975 and 1995.

Evidence

34 The Islamic Revival has been characterized by a proliferation of these activities. For exam.. ple, there has been at least a 330 percent increase in the number of mosques built overall in Egypt between 1975 and 1995 (al,Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies 1996; Zeghal 1 996). Similarly, the number of Islamic nongovern organizations grew by 1 7 percent in the 1960s, 31 percent in the 1970s, and 33 percent in the 1980s (al,Ahram Center for Political and Strate.. gic Studies 1 996, 236). — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 420

Categorization

• XREF: Quantitative markers of the Islamic Revival’s infrastructural expansion could feed the postcolonial/epistemic-frame cluster as concrete data anchoring theoretical claims.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 420