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Exploring the Soft Force: Women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening and the Work of Saba Mahmood

"The "soft force" of women in Egypt’s Islamic Awakening refers to the transformative social and ethical power exerted by the women’s mosque movement. Centralized in the ethnographic research of Saba Mahmood and her seminal work Politics of Piety (Princeton University Press), this movement redefined agency not as resistance to patriarchy, but as the intentional cultivation of a pious self through disciplined religious practice. The Origins of the Islamic Awakening in Egypt The Islamic Awakening, or al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, emerged as a potent social and religious force in Egypt during the 1970s and 1980s. This period followed the decline of secul..."

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