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- W289644169 abstract "LEBANON An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon, by Lara Deeb. Princeton, NJ and Oxford, UK: Princeton University Press, 2006. ix + 232 pages. Gloss, to 233. Refs. to p. 249. Index to 263. $60 cloth, $24.95 paper. Reviewed by Anne Bennett Lara Deeb's expansive and eloquent ethnography focuses on the community of Lebanese Shi 'a who identify with Hizbullah. It is an excellent analysis of the way that women, in particular, live and define a modern, authenticated Islam in the neighborhoods of al-Dahiyya, the sprawling suburb south of Beirut that was pummeled by Israel in the July War of 2006. Both theoretically and ethnographically, Deeb offers nuanced and thorough analyses, all the while being attentive to overlapping, contradictory, and shifting viewpoints. She disentangles theoretical discussions of modernity, place, embodiment and other concepts central to her analysis while at the same time keeping a keen eye on the subtle and telling details of everyday life. There are no oversimplifications here. The theoretically packed Introduction deftly sets the stage for all that follows and gives a particularly interesting and important analysis of how Islam and modernity intertwine in al-Dahiyya. Ultimately, this book makes a compelling case for the anthropological approach and its painstaking attention to the quotidian. She makes all the appropriate qualifications (I do not/cannot speak for all), but nonetheless there is much that she can and does say. Additionally, she does not commit the sin of presenting some kind of timeless reality among Lebanon's Shi'ite population. Rather, Deeb always contextualizes what she observes. What do Shi'ites variously think, for example, regarding how Husayn or Zaynab can be models for living in today's reality? Or, on a more mundane level, what are and were views on embodied practices such as wearing hejab or shaking hands? There clearly is no one view, although not all audiences are aware of this, and Deeb is vigilant in accounting for both process/change over time and diversity of opinion. Deeb entered her field research working as a volunteer in a jam 'iyya, one of many charitable organizations in al-Dahiyya that fill the Lebanese state's looming gaps in basic social services such as public health care, education, poverty assistance, and orphan services. Several of the women whom she encountered while volunteering became key to her research which focuses on these women's efforts to live a pious modem life dedicated to theirs and their community's political, material, and spiritual betterment. Deeb makes clear from the opening of the ethnography that the Lebanese Shi 'a she knew were very aware of and sensitive to North American perceptions of Islam in general and Hizbullah in particular. …" @default.
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