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

Zusatztext "Deeb provides insights into the complex understandings of the religious and the secular that inform individual and collective expressions of piety among Shia Muslims." ---Amina Jamal, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Informationen zum Autor Lara Deeb Klappentext "A remarkable book that opens new vistas on Shi'I Islam and offers the reader a richly textured and insight-filled excursion into a contemporary Shi'I community. It will become the source on contemporary Shi'ism in Lebanon." --A. R. Norton, Boston University "Well-written, timely, original and extremely interesting. This book is at the cutting edge of scholarship on Muslim communities, particularly with respect to Shi'i Muslim women." --Nadje S. Al-Ali, University of Exeter Zusammenfassung Demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Deeb, Deeb Lara
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2006
• EAN: 9780691124216
• ISBN: 978-0-691-12421-6
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Lebanon, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities