Authors: Lara Deeb
ISBN-13: 9780691124216, ISBN-10: 0691124213
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: New Edition
Lara Deeb is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
"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
Lara Deeb's expansive and eloquent ethnography focuses on the community of Lebanese Shi'i 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.... Both theoretically and ethnographically, Deeb offers nuanced and thorough analyses, all the while being attentive to overlapping, contradictory, and shifting viewpoints.
Introduction : pious and/as/is modern | 3 | |
Ch. 1 | Al-Dahiyya : sight, sound, season | 42 |
Ch. 2 | From marginalization to institutionalization | 67 |
Ch. 3 | The visibility of religion in daily life | 99 |
Ch. 4 | Ashura : authentication and sacrifice | 129 |
Ch. 5 | Community commitment | 165 |
Ch. 6 | Public piety as women's Jihad | 204 |
Ch. 7 | The pious modern ideal and its gaps | 220 |