Egyptian social conservatism partly stems from Gulf laborer repatriation

Evidence

Some scholars have suggested that the ascendant social conservatism of Egyptian society is partly a result of the “Gulfi form of Islam (sometimes called “petrodollar Islam”) brought back by Egyptians who lost their jobs when the Gulf economies took a downturn in the 1970s and 1980s started offering lessons to women, around 1980, and it currently commands the largest female audience of any mosque in Cairo. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 301

Categorization

• QUESTION: This petrodollar-Islam thesis is attributed to ‘some scholars’ but left unexamined here — worth checking who argues this and how contested it is.
• XREF: Connects to how money flows remit cultural norms home, echoing reverse currents discussed in The Namesake and migrant-culture dynamics.