Islamic religious concepts cannot be separated from secular institutional change

Evidence

The development of women’s dacwa, therefore, is part of a shared history of transformations that have occurred in secular and religious institutions in the modem period. As we have seen, it is almost impossible to track changes in the concepts of dacwa and amr bil macrii that are purely “religious” in scope. There is perhaps no better way to illustrate the intertwined role that secular and religious institutions have played in the articulation of women’s daewa 60 Despite the doctrinally contested nature of this position, many male religious fi who sup. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 479

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Core methodological claim of the book: the religious/secular binary is analytically unhelpful for understanding these movements — reframing how we classify what is ‘religious’ versus ‘secular’ in social analysis.