An Enchanted Modern

Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

Bibliographic Data

ID19601977
AuthorsLara Deeb (0000-0002-8512-0153, corresponding author)
Year2006
Pages288
Publication date2006-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byAn Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon, Suzanne E Joseph, 2007
VenueEnchanted Modern (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400840786
OpenAlexW4246763861
Open LibraryOL29077572M
ISBN9781400840786
LanguageEN
Citations received433

Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and specifically an enchanted modernity, may be constructed by Shi'I Muslims who consider themselves simultaneously deeply modern, cosmopolitan, and pious. In this depiction of a Shi'I Muslim community in Beirut, Deeb examines the ways that individual and collective expressions and understandings of piety have been debated, contested, and reformulated. Women take center stage in this process, a result of their visibility both within the community, and in relation to Western ideas that link the status of women to modernity. By emphasizing the ways notions of modernity and piety are lived, debated, and shaped by "everyday Islamists," this book underscores the inseparability of piety and politics in the lives of pious Muslims

Art · Geography · Glossary · Institutionalisation · Linguistics · Literature · Piety · Political science · Politics · Public life · Sacrifice · Sociology · Theology · Visibility · Classics · Computer Science · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy · Religious studies · Socioeconomic Development in MENA

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