http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2874/sabrina-moro Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:13 -0400 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:00:13 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1314/islamic-feminism-in-egypt-toward-a-reconceptualization-of-social-movement-theories By Sabrina Moro - A review of literature on social movements highlights its many and sometimes conflicting definitions. Relying on Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (2005) – an ethnographic account of grassroots women’s piety movement in the mosques of Cairo – and literature on Islamic feminism, I ask whether religious movements are social movements and show that social movement theories and concepts such as ‘feminism’, ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ are the product of a specific set of discourses inscribed in western academic history. This paper thus calls... Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:11 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1314/islamic-feminism-in-egypt-toward-a-reconceptualization-of-social-movement-theories