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

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

Lara Deeb

263 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 co...

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