Leftists explained religious revival through ignorance, Saudi influence, and regime mimesis

Evidence

Progressive leftists like myself explained this turn of the “masses” to Islamic forms of sociability in a number of ways: sometimes we attributed it to the lack of education and enlightened thinking among the vast majority of the population, sometimes to the conservative form of Saudi Islam that immigrant laborers return from the Arabian Gulf states had brought back into Pakistan, and sometimes to the mimetic effects that Zia ul— repressive regime had inevitably engendered in the populace. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 21

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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• Progressive leftists explained Islamic revival as ignorance or foreign imposition (similarity 0.91)
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• Islamic revival found wide middle-class support, not just among the dispossessed (similarity 0.81)
• Secular liberals read public religion reductively as power, not meaning (similarity 0.80)
• Islamic revivalism attracted middle classes through critique of Western lifestyles (similarity 0.79)
• Left-liberal intellectuals confirm conservative caricatures of Islam (similarity 0.79)