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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) (1st Edition) by Lara Deeb Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-691-12421-3 / 0691124213 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12421-6 / 9780691124216 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 |