... have the live conversations that so engaged and enriched us both. 1. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 2 . 2. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 23 . 3. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 25 . 4. Mahmood, Religious Difference , 27 . 5. Mahmood, Religious...

... be found below . Saba Mahmood was so articulate that it would be presumptuous to speak for her, and her arguments so sharp that it is challenging to speak about her. She would want us to speak to her. Although that conversation has been prematurely interrupted, like any strong thinker she's...

...Judith Butler © 2019 Judith Butler 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Saba Mahmood's work and life made the case for anthropology as a field whose task it is to achieve “understanding” through a studied...

...Samuli Schielke © 2019 Samuli Schielke 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). I never managed to meet Saba Mahmood in person, and the fault is mine. Was I anxious about meeting the person whose work had inspired me...

... Abstract This special section collects memorial essays and testimonies on the life, work, and legacy of Saba Mahmood, who died March 10, 2018. This special section collects memorial essays and testimonies on the life, work, and legacy of Saba Mahmood, who died March 10, 2018. Born in Pakistan...

... from the work of Sudipta Kaviraj, Partha Chatterjee, and Mahmood Mamdani, the essay proposes an alternative mode of decolonizing political theory that takes as its central aim the generation of theory from the study of postcolonial politics. It argues for a historically attuned and comparative approach...

...Mayanthi Fernando © 2019 Mayanthi Fernando 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Saba Mahmood begins the acknowledgments in Politics of Piety by thanking her mentors and teachers. Talal Asad's thinking, she...

... in this stimulating collective experience and allowed me to explore the uncertain terrain of this equivocal keyword. 1. Mahmood, “Humanism.” 2. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 2 . 3. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 2 . 4. Fassin, Life , 20, 82 . 5. Mahmood, “Humanism,” 3 . 6. Foucault...

... Mahmood . “ How the ICC's ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Is Being Turned into an Assertion of Neocolonial Domination .” Pambazuka News , September 17 , 2008 . www.pambazuka.org/governance/darfur-icc-and-new-humanitarian-order . Mamdani Mahmood . Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics...

... that the university took in Europe in the nineteenth century has come to assume the form of the only legitimate model of higher education. This was not, of course, always the case. Knowledge flowed the other way in an earlier age. Mahmood Mamdani points out that the graduation gowns seen all over the modern world...

... might emerge from disposability, impoverishment, nonrehabilitation, unattended wounds, and nonvitality. Any emergent subjectivity, however, must not negotiate between mourning and melancholia as an attempt to discover a resurgent agency, which, as Saba Mahmood warns us, risks reprising the logic...

... University Press , 2003 . Asad Talal . “ Free Speech, Blasphemy, and Secular Criticism .” In Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, Free Speech , by Talal Asad , Wendy Brown , Judith Butler , and Saba Mahmood , 20 – 64 . Berkeley, CA : Townsend Center for the Humanities...

... in South Africa is that of the Ugandan scholar Mahmood Mamdani, who was hired at the University of Cape Town (UCT) as professor of African studies in 1996, and who initiated a public debate on this experience. Another case was that of the late, exiled South African anthropologist Archie Mafeje. He...

... and as the potential, perfect form of life yet to come required other genealogies and other frames for seeing. This history is not easy to write, and in part this is because the routes to freedom are many, and the subject of freedom, as Saba Mahmood brilliantly demonstrated, is in theory always-already secular...

..., a phenomenon well explained by Mahmood Mamdani, 3 but it exists in other forms too. In urban neighborhoods politicians often actively cultivate the idea that residents from “outside the province”—a formulation that often masks ethnic claims—have no legitimate claims to residence and rights. There are often...

... claim issued by AGIR: “In Angola, authorities are more invested in creating a society of subjects and not of citizens” (Em Angola, as autoridades estão mais empenhadas em criar uma sociedade de súbditos e não de cidadãos), 7 a statement that immediately resonates with Mahmood Mamdani's discussion...

... . “ The Waning of the Oedipus Complex .” In Papers on Psychoanalysis , 384 – 404 . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 1980 . Mahdi Muhsin . Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History: A Study in the Philosophic Foundation of the Science of Culture . London : Ruskin House , 1957 . Mahmood...

... of Chicago Press , 2010 . Mamdani Mahmood . “ The African University .” London Review of Books , July 19 , 2018 . Mamdani Mahmood . Scholars in the Marketplace . Dakar : Codesria , 2007 . Marx Christoph . “ Hendrik Verwoerd and the Leipzig School of Psychology in 1926...

... . 31. The question of exemplarity also relates to that of a model to be followed. The Latin word habitus may be of some use here, as it specifically relates to repetition and performance. In Politics of Piety , Saba Mahmood evokes Islamic reformulations of the term to mean a specific pedagogical...

... and Protection of Art . Los Angeles : Getty Institute , 2019 . Mamdani Mahmood . “ Beyond Nuremberg: The Historical Significance of the Post-apartheid Transition in South Africa .” Politics and Society 43 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 61 – 88 . Meister Robert . After Evil: A Politics of Human...