Religious arguments transform as they travel across class and status divisions.

Evidence

The interesting issue, therefore, is not how religious ideology refl class interests, but the more complicated question of what forms scholarly opinions and arguments take when they traverse the hierarchical divisions of class, gender, education, and social status. Scholarly arguments are not simply frozen bodies of texts, but live through the discursive practices of both lettered and unlettered Muslims whose familiarity with these arguments is grounded in a variety of sources-not all of which are controlled by scholars. Moreover, scholarly arguments are often transformed by the contexts in which they are evoked, a process that imparts to the arguments new meanings, usages, and 23 For the use of the term ti li in the Quran, see verse 10 in Surat Al. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 667

Categorization

• QUESTION: The sentence cuts off mid-thought (‘new meanings, usages, and…’) — curious what the author lists as the third product of re-contextualization.