New Islamic genres redirect old concerns rather than replace them

Evidence

Importantly, new Islamic genres such as fatwas and fi manuals do not simply replace traditional concern and modes of arguments; rather they point to a new set of conditions within which older commitments and themes have been given a new direction, shape, and form. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 577

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A subtle corrective to the typical modernity/religion binary: new religious forms don’t displace tradition but reorganize its conditions; this resists any simple narrative of secularization-as-loss and deserves careful re-reading.