Mosque-movement morality is individualizing but not juridical, lacking centralized enforcement.

Evidence

The practices of these movements presuppose the existence of a di.. vine plan for human life-embodied in the Quran, the exegetical literature, and the moral codes derived therefrom-that each individual is responsible for following. Participants in the mosque movement are summoned to recog.. nize their moral obligations through invocations of divine texts and edifi .. tory literature. This form of morality, however, is not strictly juridicaL There are no centralized authorities that enforce the moral code and penalize infrac.. tions. Rather, the mosque movement has a strong individualizing impetus that requires each person to adopt a set of ascetic practices for shaping moral con.. duct. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 230

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard Western framing of Islamic morality as rule-bound and authoritarian; connects to Spivak’s critique of representing non-Western subjects in Western legal frames.