State repression drove women’s religious teaching underground into private homes

Evidence

In 1965 Nasser dissolved the Society of Muslim Ladies, and Zaynab al..Ghazali was imprisoned for six years. After her release from prison, al..Ghazali was prohibited from speaking publicly, but she continued to hold religious lessons in private homes. She also wrote on the topic of women’s daewa and maintained a regular correspondence with young Muslim women and men from all over the Arab world who asked her for advice. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 494

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls how repressive regimes push speech into private, domestic spaces — parallels the domestic sphere dynamics described in A Midwife’s Tale and the broader literature on women’s religious authority surviving state bans.