Islamic revivalism attracted middle classes through critique of Western lifestyles

Evidence

Most surprising for feminists of my generation was the fact that this movement was not limited to the marginalized or the dispossessed, but found active and wide support among the middle classes who increasingly conjoined a critique of their emulation of Western habits and lifestyles with a renewed concern for living in accord with Islamic social mores. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the secular-liberal assumption that religiosity appeals to the dispossessed—ties to the vault’s liberal-feminist and secular-liberal critique cluster (Spivak, Ahmad).
• SEED: Angle: why middle-class piety cannot be explained away as false consciousness of the oppressed.