Mastering a subordinating tradition can enable deviation from it

Evidence

Paradoxically, Abir’s ability to break from the norms of what it meant to be a dutiful wife were predicated upon her learning to perfect a tradition that accorded her a subordinate status to her husband. Abir’s diver.. gence from approved standards of wifely conduct, therefore, did not represent a break with the signifi ory system of Islamic norms, but was saturated with them, and enabled by the capacities that the practice of these norms endowed her with. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1200 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subordination to tradition can itself enable transgressive agency. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1200; Genuine artistic negation requires being saturated with tradition first — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 165; Internal criticism of tradition does not prove rejection of that tradition (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Subordination to tradition can itself enable transgressive agency. #corroborates (0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1200