Saba Mahmood
American anthropologist, Professor, University of California, Berkeley · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1961 to 2018 · aged 57
Saba Mahmood (1961-2018) was professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she was also affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory.
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Her scholarly work straddled debates in anthropology and political theory, with a focus on Muslim majority societies of West Asia and South Asia. Mahmood made major theoretical contributions to rethinking the relationship between ethics and politics, religion and secularism, freedom and submission, and reason and embodiment. Influenced by the work of Talal Asad, she wrote on issues of gender, religious politics, secularism, and Muslim and non-Muslim relations in the Middle East.
