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

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ADDITIONAL REVIEWS:

"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

ADDITIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:

"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

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