Saba Mahmood, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Saba Mahmood

American anthropologist

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1961

Place of Birth: Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan

Date of Death: 10-Mar-2018

Profession: writer, university teacher, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Saba Mahmood (February 3, 1962 – March 10, 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.
Her scholarly work straddled debates in anthropology and political theory, with a focus on Muslim majority societies of the Middle East 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.