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'''An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon''' by witer lara deeb. Lara Deeb in this book successfully argues that Islamism is not static or monolithic, and that Islam and modernity are entirely compatible | '''An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon''' by witer lara deeb. Lara Deeb in this book successfully argues that Islamism is not static or monolithic, and that Islam and modernity are entirely compatible. | ||
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==overview== | ==overview== | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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==sources== | ==sources== | ||
[ | [[Amazaon.com https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Modern-Lebanon-Princeton-Politics/dp/0691124213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505978237&sr=8-1&keywords=an+enchanted+modern|amazon.com]] | ||