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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

Paperback • 2006

An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

By Lara Deeb

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About the book

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 i...Show more

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9780691124216

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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon

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