Working-class mosque lessons are informal and interactive, unlike elite ones.

Evidence

In contrast to the reserved decorum of the Umar mosque, an informal and un.. ceremonious atmosphere characterizes the Ayesha mosque. For example, women attendees often interrupt the teacher to ask questions or to put for.. ward altern opinions they have heard elsewhere. There is constant ban.. ter back and forth between the daciya and her audience. The daciyat here, as in the other mosques, also speak in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, but their speech is marked by street colloquialisms that are characteristic of their and their audience’s working. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 291