I have said that Saba Mahmood's Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject is one of the most important and original works in Middle East studies in years. So I was reading a review of it in the last issue of Middle East Quarterly. The editors chose a researcher from Rand Corporation to review the book. Well, Rand as we all know, is a center for feminist studies, and provided the Pentagon with keen insights on Vietnamese feminism for much of the 1960s and 1970s. But what is almost funny is that the reviewer clearly did not understand the book, and almost admitted not understanding it. I was amused. Kind of.